When most people picture a brain scan, they imagine someone lying inside a cylindrical machine, trying their best not to move or fall asleep as the machine gently beeps, thinking about whatever comes to mind. This is resting-state fMRI, and it has been the dominant paradigm for studying how brain regions communicate with each other for years.

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Although robust sex differences exist in human brain function, anatomy, and behavior, these traits are largely independent. A sex-typical brain function does not necessarily translate to sex-typical b...

Mapping the connections between the brain’s structure and function.

Despite extensive research on the neurobiology of addiction, little is known about how repeated drug use and withdrawal are related to social functioning impairments in humans, a highly social…

Drug addiction is accompanied by enhanced salience attributed to drug over nondrug cues. This bias can be objectively measured and is reliable but und…