Cardiology
Study of cardiac imaging tests new CT-based procedure
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine recently performed a cardiac imaging procedure that was the first of its kind completed in Georgia.
Nov 11, 2021
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News tagged with emission tomography
Psychology & Psychiatry
Expectations and dopamine can affect outcome of SSRI treatment
Levels of dopamine and the placebo effect can determine whether patients with social anxieties improve when treated with SSRIs. A new study shows the effect was four times higher for patients with high expectations of the ...
Nov 8, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Deep learning improves interpretation of tumors
NIBIB-funded engineers are using deep learning to differentiate tumors more accurately from normal tissue in positron emission tomography (PET) images. Standard analysis of PET scans count black regions as tumor and white ...
Oct 19, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Amyloid beta and serotonin may be keys to predicting who develops late-life depression
Looking for ways to image the human brain for the earliest signs of aging and cognitive decline, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers recently identified a pattern that links the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) proteins ...
Oct 8, 2021
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Early accumulation of tau in the brain predicts memory decline in Alzheimer's disease
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have compared how well different Alzheimer's biomarkers predict the progression of the disease and its effect on the memory. They found that early accumulation of tau proteins ...
Sep 30, 2021
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Neuroscience
New mouse model for studying the cognitive protection mechanisms in Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease that features the accumulation of the beta-amyloid peptide and Tau protein in the brain, which are associated with deficits in the neuronal connections and with dementia. However, ...
Sep 28, 2021
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Neuroscience
To do or not to do: Cracking the code of motivation
Why do we do things? What persuades us to put an effort to achieve goals, however mundane? What, for instance, drives us to search for food? Neurologically, the answer is hidden in the reward system of the brain—an evolutionary ...
Aug 6, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Tool helps predicts who will respond best to targeted prostate cancer therapy
A new prognostic tool developed by researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and five other institutions helps predict which men with advanced metastatic prostate cancer will respond favorably to a novel ...
Jul 7, 2021
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Radiology & Imaging
New image reconstruction methods for fMRI and PET
The role of functional imaging is growing in clinical practice, where it is used to investigate the functional and physiological changes in the target. Unlike anatomical imaging, functional imaging is used to determine the ...
Jun 21, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Novel radiopharmaceutical tracks 'master switch' protein responsible for cancer growth
A protein that is critical in cancer cell metabolism has been imaged for the first time with a newly developed radiopharmaceutical, 18F-DASA-23. Imaging with this novel agent has the potential to improve the assessment of ...
Jun 15, 2021
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