#brain-metabolism

#brain-metabolism

When you enter a social situation - especially one with more than two or three people - your brain doesn't just "engage." It activates a staggeringly complex monitoring system. You're tracking facial microexpressions, calibrating your tone, predicting how your words will land, adjusting posture, managing silence, interpreting ambiguity. All of it simultaneously. All of it unconsciously.

A new technology that uses clinical MRI machines to image metabolic activity in the brain could give researchers and clinicians unique insight into brain function and disease.