Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are trying to develop a treatment for those who have lost their ability to smell by studying how the brain changes when that sense is lost.

Brown University researchers have found that healthy people who take ADHD drugs may experience consistent changes in positive emotion, according to an online university news release.

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have recently developed a new method to measure third trimester growth and folding patterns of babies' brains, according to a recent university news release. The folding patterns in a baby's brain, researchers specifically found, can be as unique to an individual as are fingerprints.

A recent MIT study has found that children as young as 3 years old may have a brain network capable of thinking about and potentially understanding the mental states of other people, according to a news release.  

What looked like a missing brain turned out to be a large air pocket compressing surrounding brain tissue inside the man's skull, according to a recent article from Live Science. 

Researchers used a high temporal resolution functional MRI (fMRI) data to examine the difference in the timing between brain activation areas by analyzing the task onset time of the statistical model shifted from the actual stimulation timing.

Exposure to air pollution during fetal life may severely alter a child's brain structure and pose long-term effects, according to a study published online Feb. 4 in Biological Psychiatry.  

According to researchers from the Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, England, a volumetric CT head exam may be enough to identify non-accidental injuries without an additional x-ray.