Neuroimaging of decreased blood flow in specific regions of the brain can differentiate between depression and cognitive disorders, according to a new report in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Does ...

Dec. 4, 2002 (Chicago) - A radiopharmaceutical-imaging agent - ioflupane (I123-FP-CIT) - used with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is "98% accurate" for early diagnosis of Parkinson ...

Can a simple brain scan determine how old your brain is? Your brain is as old as you are in chronological years, of course, but what about in wear-and-tear years? It would be an exciting prospect if ...

For every 1% increase in blood-brain barrier disruption, the odds of a person having a poor outcome 3 months after an ...

Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen‘s pioneering approach to cognitive function and mental health centers on SPECT scans of the brain, which he uses to analyze physiological activity instead of a traditional ...

In a recent review published by Molecular Psychiatry, researchers reviewed existing data on the contribution of neuroimaging modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission ...

Biologically speaking, there is no organ as vital or complex as the brain. And yet, the brain still remains somewhat a of a mystery-there’s a lot that even experts don’t know. Another troubling fact ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often described as one of the invisible scars that firefighters and others accumulate after years of dealing with trauma in their jobs. Now the scars are ...