A SPECT scan involves 3-D scans of the patient’s brain that look at blood flow and activity, followed by a custom treatment plan. Matt Fiorenza is a retired firefighter-paramedic who spent 22 ...

A study by the Medical University of Vienna demonstrated that augmented reality (AR) in pediatric epilepsy surgery enhances ...

Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, are progressive conditions marked by neuronal loss, neuroinflammation, and protein ...

Deep brain stimulation is most often offered to people with advanced Parkinson's disease who have unstable medication ...

PET and SPECT use tracers that specifically bind to receptors that ... which discuss the use of PET to identify regional brain abnormalities in schizophrenia. We provide an integrative review of the ...

Since the donation of a SPECT camera by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a busy hospital in Brazil’s city of Niteroi has doubled its capacity to perform heart scans, expanding access to ...

The human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also uses basic mathematical functions called basis functions to store information about how people interact — for example ...

A drug developed at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has been shown to ...

Scientists have developed a lipid nanoparticle system capable of delivering messenger RNA (mRNA) to the brain via intravenous injection, a challenge that has long been limited by the protective ...