Illuminating lies with brain scan beats polygraph test The study, published in the Journal of Scientific Psychiatry, found that scanning individuals’s brains with fMRI, or practical magnetic resonance imaging, was significantly more effective at identifying lies than a traditional polygraph test. It has been …

See all stories on'this subject Antidepressants Don ' t Stop Swelling In a current study released by JAMA Psychiatry, Dr. Jeffrey Meyer and his colleagues used PET scans to measure brain inflammation in patients with depression. They found a 30 percent boost in inflammation in numerous brain areas of those who were …