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neuroimaging

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[noo-roh-im-uhj-ing, nyoo-roh-] / ˌnʊ roʊˈɪm ədʒ ɪŋ, ˌnyʊ roʊ- /

noun

  1. Medicine/Medical. the branch of medicine and neuroscience concerned with producing images of the brain using a CT scanner, MR scanner, or other imaging technology.

  2. Medicine/Medical. images produced by neuroimaging techniques.


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“You know how to push buttons really fast but don’t have the attention level to focus on your teacher,” said Horowitz-Kraus, head of the educational neuroimaging group at Technion, an Israeli university.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Using advanced neuroimaging, they examined how the brain is organized overall and how that organization gives rise to intelligence.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

In fact, neuroimaging studies show the brains of children who eat more processed snack foods are smaller in volume, particularly in the frontal cortices, than those of children who eat a more healthful diet.

From Salon • May 28, 2024

“By combining our expertise in the fields of neuropathology, biostatistics, neuroscience, neuroimaging and neurology to address Alzheimer’s disease from all angles, we’ve made significant strides in understanding how it affects the brain,” says Murray.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024

He runs the new neuroimaging lab at the University of California at San Francisco, one of the world’s leading scientific institutes.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel