Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently demonstrated that lesions causing depression in patients with stroke or penetrating head trauma were functionally connected to a common brain circuit.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are using neuroimaging to explore the structure–function relationship of neurological soft signs (NSS). They report that NSS in typically developing adolescents are associated with distinct alterations in brain structure that can be objectively quantified using neuroimaging.

Johanna Seitz-Holland, PhD, Marek Kubicki, MD, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at the Brigham, and colleagues recently became the first to investigate cognitive deficits in schizophrenia in a large-scale, thoroughly harmonized sample.

Through brain imaging and laboratory research, Brigham investigators are examining how lithium affects the brain at the individual neuron and brain-circuit levels. Psychiatrist Amit Anand, MD, explains how it may increase the growth of certain areas of the brain and influence the organ functionally and structurally.

Kathryn V. Papp, PhD, and Reisa A. Sperling, MD, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues recently determined that very early Alzheimer’s disease is associated with a decline in existing measures of processing speed and memory retrieval.