Vanderbilt Team Studies Maps of the Brain in its Resting State

The brain’s resting state, a space in which a person is not thinking about the outside world, has been the subject of much research in recent years. Potential benefits of these studies include clear diagnoses of disorders like bipolar and post-traumatic stress. With the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), neuroscientists examine activity in human and animal brains in a resting state with hopes to identify the structural changes that occur in those with neurological and psychological diseases. A team a Vanderbilt University has worked on a study that provides vailidity to studies investigating networks of the brain in its resting state and its anatomical and neurological structure. Click here to read the full article.