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Brainstorm

UConn’s new state-of-the-art fMRI scanner in the Brain Imaging Research Center allows researchers to visualize the brain carrying out language and other cognitive tasks in real time. The scanner is yielding the clearest pictures yet of the inner workings of the human brain, and marks an important milestone in UConn’s continuing rise to prominence in the cognitive and brain sciences.

Graphic representing emotions and the brain. (Christa Tubach/UConn Image)

Brain-Imaging Technology Reveals Hidden Emotions

Graphic representing reading and the brain. (Christa Tubach/UConn Image)

How the Human Brain Reads – In Any Language

How the brain controls speech. (Christa Tubach/UConn Image)

How the Brain Controls Speech

Music and the brain. (Christa Tubach/UConn Image)

Music and the Mind

Health & Wellness Research
With UConn Health poised to open a new Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in April, the head of the neurology department discusses this common seizure condition. These MRI scans show a brain tumor and associated swelling that triggered a patient’s seizures. (UConn Health Image)

I’ve Heard of it, But What Exactly is Epilepsy?

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NIH postdoctoral fellow Virginia Hawkins looks though a microscope at the Pharmacy/Biology Building. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

The Veins in Your Brain Don’t All Act the Same

Health & Wellness Research
Dr. Charan K. Singh, right, holds a 3-D printed model of arteries and a catheter while speaking with Dr. Clifford Yang at UConn Health. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Health’s New 3-D Printed Model Allows Brain Surgeons to Practice

Research
As part of an investigation into why humans move as they do in crowds, UConn researchers compare the flocking behavior of soccer players with that of inanimate particles. (MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Brain Awareness: Soccer Players May Offer Clues to Collective Movement

Health & Wellness Research
UConn researchers are studying the complex science of seizures. (Elizabeth Caron/UConn Photo)

Brain Awareness: Brainstorming Better Seizure Treatments

Health & Wellness Research
Tiffany Johnson of Bloomfield holds her son, Quincey, who was born at 25 weeks, weighing one pound 14 ounces. (Peter Morenus/UConn File Photo)

Brain Awareness: Can Caffeine Save the Tiniest Babies’ Brains?

Health & Wellness Research
A brain-shaped printed circuit board. (Alfred Pasieka,/Science Photo Library via Getty Images)

Brain Awareness: Toward Growing an Artificial Mind

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Cover image for UConn Health Journal, The Brain Issue. (Getty Images)

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