What is happening in your brain as you talk, read or try to remember a person’s name? What is happening in the brain when people have difficulty learning or performing these tasks?

What parts of the brain are activated when you experience happiness, fear or love? What role do these emotions play in our health and development?

Waisman Center scientists explore these questions every day using the most powerful tools and expertise available. We investigate the development of language and cognition in young children, study the neural circuits that underlie changes in the adolescent brain, and examine emotion regulation in aging adults.

MRI, PET and EEG each provide different information about the brain. Combining these images gives us the most complete and powerful picture of brain structure and function. What makes the Waisman Center Brain Imaging Laboratory so unique is that these three state-of-the-art brain imaging technologies are all housed under one roof, at the fingertips of some of the most talented scientists in the world.

Learn more about these technologies:

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
• Electroencephalography (EEG)