MEG

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Man with EEG sensors on his head.

Noninvasive technologies can map and target human brain with unprecedented precision

But to fully grasp the tools’ potential, we need to better understand how electric and magnetic fields interact with the brain.

By Bruce Rosen
21 April 2025 | 7 min read
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Simply making data publicly available isn’t enough. We need to make it easy — that requires community buy-in.

I helped create a standard to make it easy to upload, analyze and compare functional MRI data. An ecosystem of tools has since grown up around it, boosting reproducibility and speeding up research.

By Russell Poldrack
17 January 2024 | 7 min read
Dr. Edgar helps the participant prepare for the magnetoencephalography (MEG) exam.

Auditory cortex may develop early in autism

A well-studied brain response to sound appears earlier than usual in young children with autism.

By Nora Bradford
16 September 2022 | 3 min read
Child in an MEG machine

Making neuroimaging accessible for more autistic children

A new protocol aims to help researchers include more autistic people — especially those who are minimally verbal or have intellectual disability — in imaging studies.

By Laura Dattaro
6 April 2021 | 8 min read
Illustration shows an ear balancing on a brain, surrounded by barriers blocking sound waves

Confusion at the crossroads of autism and hearing loss

Hearing difficulties and autism often overlap, exacerbating autism traits and complicating diagnoses.

By Jyoti Madhusoodanan
12 August 2020 | 15 min read

Autistic children’s auditory delays may persist into adulthood

A delay in autistic children’s brain responses to sound may continue into adulthood.

By Laura Dattaro
10 March 2020 | 3 min read
Child in a bike helmet repurposed as a brain scanner, smiles and laughs

Modified bike helmet scans brains of people in motion

A magnetic scanner fitted within an ordinary bicycle helmet may make it easier to visualize autistic children's brains.

By Princess Ojiaku
20 December 2019 | 2 min read
Child in magnetoencephalograph (MEG) scanner

Brains of minimally verbal autistic children respond slowly to sound

Several of the brain’s responses to sound are sluggish in autistic children who speak few or no words, compared with those who are verbal.

By Nicholette Zeliadt
4 May 2019 | 4 min read
Portrait of Dr. Timothy Roberts

In quest for autism biomarkers, this technique has magnetic appeal

To find biological markers of autism, scientists would be wise to measure the brain's electrical activity along with the resulting magnetic fields.

By Timothy Roberts
26 March 2019 | 6 min read
Child in MEG with eeg cap

Autistic children may have to mute own perspective to grasp others’

To understand another person's point of view, children with autism may need to actively suppress their own.

By Bahar Gholipour
6 December 2018 | 5 min read

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Exclusive: Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on ‘bonkers’ dataset

The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.

By Calli McMurray
8 December 2025 | 5 min read
Research image of a virtual environment simulating an animal’s viewpoint close to the ground.

Seeing the world as animals do: How to leverage generative AI for ecological neuroscience

Generative artificial intelligence will offer a new way to see, simulate and hypothesize about how animals experience their worlds. In doing so, it could help bridge the long-standing gap between neural function and behavior.

By Shahab Bakhtiari
8 December 2025 | 8 min read

Psilocybin rewires specific mouse cortical networks in lasting ways

Neuronal activity induced by the psychedelic drug strengthens inputs from sensory brain areas and weakens cortico-cortical recurrent loops.

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