Brain Scan

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- PET scans useful to assess Alzheimer's disease - 4.4
- Australian Govt should allow GPs to order MRI scans for patients - 3.6
- Blast related injuries detected in brains of US military personnel - 3.5
- MRI shows signs of multiple sclerosis before disease develops - 3
- Depression uncouples brain's hate circuit - 3
- Blood & ultrasound can diagnose ovarian cancer early - 2.9
- Meditation may increase gray matter of brain - 2.8
- Education level linked to Alzheimer's disease, dementia - 2.6
- Routine MRI scan to evaluate breast cancer is challenged - 2.6
- Hazards of CT scans overstated in NEJM - 2.3

Brain Scan articles

Depression uncouples brain's hate circuit
Depression frequently seems to uncouple the brain's "Hate Circuit". The study entitled "Depression Uncouples Brain Hate Circuit" is published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.

Smoking increases brain lesions and brain shrinkage in MS
People who smoke and have multiple sclerosis (MS) may be at increased risk of brain shrinkage and increased brain lesions related to the disease, revealed by researchers.

Bulimia nervosa linked to brain circuit abnormalities
Women with bulimia nervosa appear to respond more impulsively during psychological testing than those without eating disorders, and brain scans show differences in areas responsible for regulating behavior, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

MRI shows signs of multiple sclerosis before disease develops
With more and more people having brain MRIs for various reasons, doctors are finding people whose scans show signs of multiple sclerosis (MS) even though they have no symptoms of the disease.

Brain and genes to improve anxiety treatment
Right now, about half of all people who take medicine for an anxiety disorder don't get much help from it. And doctors have no definitive way to predict who will, and who won't, benefit from each anti-anxiety prescription they write.

Brain scans reveal biological basis of cocaine addiction
Researchers looking at brain activity of cocaine users may have identified a biological lack of willpower' that will help us understand why some people become long-term addicts while others can use the drug socially.

Distorted self image the result of visual brain glitch, UCLA study
Although they look normal, people suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD, perceive themselves as ugly and disfigured. New imaging research reveals that the brains of these people look normal but function abnormally when processing visual details.

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