A new study by Pitt researchers challenges a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct ...

Because of this, "medical doctors, including psychiatrists, rarely prescribe fMRI scans for their patients, and insurance companies would be highly unlikely to pay for these expensive brain scans ...

The company’s Neuroreader software analyses abnormal brain patterns to aid in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative conditions.

A judge put Amber Waterman's murder trial on pause so professionals can decide if she has the mental capacity for the hearings to continue. Attorneys for Amber Waterman, accused of killing a pregnant ...

Scientists and medics have developed an ultra-rapid method of genetically diagnosing brain tumors that will cut the time it takes to classify them from 6-8 weeks, to as little as two hours.The team ...

Neurosurgeons at UCSF have developed a new way to evaluate concussions and traumatic brain injuries. Normally, doctors would use the Glasgow Coma Scale, which would categorize TBIs into three ...

While brain MRIs ... white matter abnormalities. The implications extend beyond initial diagnosis. Ongoing cortical damage may continue despite apparent stability on routine scans, meaning ...

Abstract: This work presents a model to support medical diagnosis through the classification of abnormality normality in medical brain images, in order to help to specialist as a previous step in the ...

A novel approach to address this unmet need involves targeting the cavities that develop after ischemic events, referred to as abnormal brain cavities (ABCs), for post-stroke neuromodulation. Despite ...

And when she was told to rest, these patterns of brain activity ceased. Based on the limited window of an fMRI scan, at least, she seemed to understand everything she was being asked to do.

Now, a team of researchers from the United States and Germany have taken a peek inside the brain to see what those so-called aha, lightbulb, or eureka moments look like. The new brain imaging ...