Since 1996 WHN is the second oldest medical website on the net, second only to the American Medical Association, servicing over 35,000 physicians and scientists worldwide.

Non-Profit Trusted Source of Non-Commercial Health Information

UK Researchers Pinpoint How Brain Detects Emotion

logo

MagnetoEncephaloGraphic (MEG) scanner technology enables scientists to identify the area of the brain that responds to both facial and vocal expressions. In that face perception deficits display in patients with autism and other neuro-developmental disorders, Cindy Hagan, from University of York (United Kingdom), and colleagues studied brain activity via MagnetoEncephaloGraphic (MEG) scanner technology.  Each of …

Read more