{"id":235460,"date":"2026-04-17T18:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/why-discarded-brain-noise-matters-overlooked-networks-may-reshape-mental-health-treatment"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:16:20","slug":"why-discarded-brain-noise-matters-overlooked-networks-may-reshape-mental-health-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/why-discarded-brain-noise-matters-overlooked-networks-may-reshape-mental-health-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Why discarded brain \u2018noise\u2019 matters: Overlooked networks may reshape mental health treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-discarded-brain-noise-matters-overlooked-networks-may-reshape-mental-health-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists who use imaging to understand the brain\u2019s complexity often focus on the strongest signals and ignore the rest. But this strategy, researchers warn, may reveal only the tip of the iceberg. A study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-026-02447-y\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Human Behavior<\/i><\/a> reveals that connections routinely overlooked as \u201cnoise\u201d during neuroimaging data analysis can predict behavior with remarkable accuracy\u2014and implicate entirely different brain networks. The finding could open many new targets for treating psychiatric illness, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany studies that rely on techniques like feature selection\u2014which simplifies the brain down to a narrow slice\u2014might only uncover a small part of the true neurobiology that underlies a given behavior,\u201d says lead author Brendan Adkinson, Ph.D., an MD-Ph. D. student at Yale School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study suggests that there may be multiple, non-overlapping networks capable of predicting a given behavior just as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists who use imaging to understand the brain\u2019s complexity often focus on the strongest signals and ignore the rest. But this strategy, researchers warn, may reveal only the tip of the iceberg. A study published in Nature Human Behavior reveals that connections routinely overlooked as \u201cnoise\u201d during neuroimaging data analysis can predict behavior with remarkable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}