Your Resting Brain CAREs about Your Risky Behavior

Your Resting Brain CAREs about Your Risky Behavior

BACKGROUND Research on the neural correlates of risk-related behaviors and personality traits has provided insight into mechanisms underlying both normal and pathological decision-making. Task-based neuroimaging studies implicate a distributed network of brain regions in risky decision-making. What remains to be understood are the interactions between these regions and their relation to individ...

Brain Imaging: Your Brain Scan Doesn't Lie About Your Age

Multi-modal MRI data analysis can be used to predict a child or young adult's age. Most, but not all, individuals' brain-derived age estimate is close to their chronological age.

How risky is your company?

In boom times, it is easy for managers to forget about risk. And not just financial risk, but organizational and operational risk as well. Now there's the risk exposure calculator, a new tool that will help managers determine exactly where and how much internal risk is mounting in their companies. The risk calculator is divided into three parts: The first set of "keys" alerts managers to the pr...

Cutting your nerve changes your brain.

Following upper limb peripheral nerve transection and surgical repair, some patients regain good sensorimotor function while others do not. Understanding peripheral and central mechanisms that contribute to recovery may facilitate the development of new therapeutic interventions. Plasticity following peripheral nerve transection has been demonstrated throughout the neuroaxis in animal models of...

Been There, Done That: What Your Mobility Traces Reveal about Your Behavior