Neuroradiology: Page 121

DTI-MRI unlocks mysteries of insomnia

By Wayne Forrest

Chinese researchers using diffusion-tensor MRI (DTI-MRI) have found abnormalities in the neural white-matter tracts of patients with insomnia, according to a study published online April 5 in Radiology.

April 4, 2016

Surgical Theater debuts neurosurgery VR platform

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medical virtual reality (VR) technology developer Surgical Theater will showcase a virtual reality surgical visualization platform for neurosurgery at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley on Wednesday.

April 4, 2016

fMRI shows how mindfulness training can help veterans

By Wayne Forrest

Functional MRI (fMRI) showed changes in two areas of the brain in military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who improved their ability to manage thoughts through mindfulness training, according to a study in the April issue of Depression and Anxiety.

April 3, 2016

MRI offers insight into brain changes from concussion

By Wayne Forrest

With the help of MRI, Canadian researchers have created for the first time in vivo images of myelin damage in the human brain after a sports-related mild traumatic brain injury -- in this case in Canadian hockey players.

March 30, 2016

DTI helps predict mild TBI outcomes in veterans

By Wayne Forrest

Diffusion-tensor MRI (DTI-MRI) could play a key role in predicting military veterans' functional postdeployment outcomes -- such as how soon they return to work -- following a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) during combat, according to a new study published online March 29 in Radiology.

March 28, 2016

PET/CT links stress with heart trouble

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Using PET/CT, researchers have linked higher radiopharmaceutical activity in the stress center of the brain to evidence of inflammation in the arteries and greater risk for cardiovascular events, including heart attack, stroke, and death, in findings scheduled for presentation next month at the American College of Cardiology annual meeting.

March 24, 2016

Univ. of Tenn. launches mobile stroke unit

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The University of Tennessee in Memphis has launched a mobile stroke unit that uses Siemens Healthcare's Scope CT scanner.

March 21, 2016

MRI shows activity slows down brain aging

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

MRI results support the long-held belief that mental and physical activity can significantly slow down gray-matter aging in the brain, according to a study in the April issue of Neurobiology of Aging.

March 16, 2016

Siemens rolls out new MRI applications

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has released new MR applications designed to help hospitals reduce the time needed for MR imaging in neurology.

March 15, 2016

French researchers describe Zika on MRI scans

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The notorious Zika virus has an appearance on MRI scans that can be associated with meningoencephalitis, according to a research letter by a French group that was published March 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

March 13, 2016

fMRI uncovers benefits of video games for MS patients

By Wayne Forrest

Using functional MRI (fMRI), Italian researchers discovered that playing video games can bolster neural connections in the brains of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and improve some cognitive abilities. The study was published online in Radiology.

March 8, 2016

Functional MRI of the brain: ABC for beginners

By Philip Ward

Functional MRI can inspire new treatment and rehabilitation protocols based on the neuronal plasticity and redistribution of the cortical representation of a function, but to accurately describe the location of lesions in their reports, it's vital radiologists recognize anatomical landmarks, noted award-winning Spanish researchers at ECR 2016.

March 7, 2016

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