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MRI Shows Brain Adjustments

A 10 year old girl in Germany was born missing the right side of her brain, however; doctors were baffled by her ability to still see perfectly out of both eyes. This right side of the brain controls the vision in the left eye. In most cases, patients whose right brain is removed no longer have clea ... Continue Reading

MRI Shows Brain Adjustments

A 10 year old girl in Germany was born missing the right side of her brain, however; doctors were baffled by her ability to still see perfectly out of both eyes. This right side of the brain controls the vision in the left eye. In most cases, patients whose right brain is re ... Continue Reading

Brain Injury Awareness Month: The Value of Brain Scans

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the result of a blow to the head or a foreign object penetrating the skull and causing a head injury. The injury disturbs normal brain function and can range from mild to severe in nature. The ensuing problems can have short or long-term complications or cause death ... Continue Reading

Brain Injury Awareness Month: The Value of Brain Scans

A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the result of a blow to the head or a foreign object penetrating the skull and causing a head injury. The injury disturbs normal brain function and can range from mild to severe in nature. The ensuing problems can have short or long-term com ... Continue Reading

Brain Scans in the Courtroom

A recent online article pointed out the fact that medicine and law aren't as far apart these days as they might have been in the past. More specifically, the article looks at how brain scans are being used in court cases as indicators of different aspects of the crime under trial. For example, a bra ... Continue Reading

Brain Scans in the Courtroom

A recent online article pointed out the fact that medicine and law aren't as far apart these days as they might have been in the past. More specifically, the article looks at how brain scans are being used in court cases as indicators of different aspects of the crime under ... Continue Reading

Optical Light May Supplement MRI for Alzheimers

Many advances have been made in recent years in terms of imaging medicine for detecting Alzheimers. For example, it was found not that long ago that PET scans could be used to better distinguish whether a person really had Alzheimers or whether they instead had the similar condition of dementia. In ... Continue Reading

Optical Light May Supplement MRI for Alzheimers

Many advances have been made in recent years in terms of imaging medicine for detecting Alzheimers. For example, it was found not that long ago that PET scans could be used to better distinguish whether a person really had Alzheimers or whether they instead had the similar c ... Continue Reading

Brain Scans Read Minds with 90%+ Accuracy

At the beginning of this year, we reported on a study which revealed that MRI scans are being tested out as mind-reading devices. You can read the report on that here but basically it showed that brain scans can read the patterns of a person's brain when they are viewing a particular item and then k ... Continue Reading

Brain Scans Read Minds with 90%+ Accuracy

At the beginning of this year, we reported on a study which revealed that MRI scans are being tested out as mind-reading devices. You can read the report on that here but basically it showed that brain scans can read the patterns of a person's brain when they are viewing a p ... Continue Reading

Brain Tumor Neuroimaging Improves Quality of Life

Patients who are suffering from a brain tumor don't have many options other than to have the tumor removed. However, there are definite risks associated with brain surgery. These risks have the potential to impact different parts of the brain and lower the patient's quality of life. Researchers inte ... Continue Reading

Brain Tumor Neuroimaging Improves Quality of Life

Patients who are suffering from a brain tumor don't have many options other than to have the tumor removed. However, there are definite risks associated with brain surgery. These risks have the potential to impact different parts of the brain and lower the patient's quality ... Continue Reading

Catch Alzheimer's Early with a Brain Scan

Alzheimer's is a detrimental disease which wreaks havoc not only on the person suffering from it but also on all of those around him or her. It takes over the brain and body, causing a loss of memory which creates pain for everyone involved in the situation, especially the patient. And there is no c ... Continue Reading

Catch Alzheimer's Early with a Brain Scan

Alzheimer's is a detrimental disease which wreaks havoc not only on the person suffering from it but also on all of those around him or her. It takes over the brain and body, causing a loss of memory which creates pain for everyone involved in the situation, especially the p ... Continue Reading

Brain Scan May Reveal Child's Headache Caused by Tumor

Parents used to tell their children that "kids don't get headaches". Nowadays, of course, we know that kids do get headaches. In fact, we know that the lives of children can be incredibly stressful and that stress-related headaches are not uncommon among children of nearly all ages. However, we migh ... Continue Reading

Brain Scan May Reveal Child's Headache Caused by Tumor

Parents used to tell their children that "kids don't get headaches". Nowadays, of course, we know that kids do get headaches. In fact, we know that the lives of children can be incredibly stressful and that stress-related headaches are not uncommon among children of nearly a ... Continue Reading

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