A study at McMaster University has found that brown adipose tissue (BAT) is less active in boys with obesity compared to boys with a normal body mass index (BMI).
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By the time multiple sclerosis is normally diagnosed—when brain lesions appear on magnetic resonance imaging scans—the patient can have irreversible damage and treatment options can be limited. But in a Stanford Medicine-led ...
Aug 8, 2023
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(HealthDay)—Researchers have developed a blood test that they say could help neurologists detect Parkinson's disease and track the illness as it progresses.
Feb 3, 2015
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Scientists have used MRI scanners to discover the parts of the brain which understand metaphors, in both healthy volunteers and people with schizophrenia. They found that people with schizophrenia employ different brain circuits ...
Sep 7, 2019
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In the largest collaborative study of the brain to date, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) led a global consortium of 190 institutions to identify eight common genetic ...
Jan 21, 2015
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Computed tomography (CT) scans are an invaluable diagnostic tool in modern medicine, but they do come at a price: exposing patients to potentially dangerous ionizing radiation. Doctors and other healthcare professionals may ...
Jun 23, 2016
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Small spots on CT scans of the lungs of children with muscle cancer do not have an adverse effect on survival, according to an international research team in the Journal for Clinical Oncology. This conclusion has direct consequences ...
Feb 15, 2019
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Researchers from Emory University have found that specific patterns of activity on brain scans may help clinicians identify whether psychotherapy or antidepressant medication is more likely to help individual patients recover ...
Mar 24, 2017
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Imperial researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to extract information about the chemical makeup of lung tumors from medical scans. For the first time, they have demonstrated how combining medical imaging with ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Researchers at the University of California San Diego say they have dramatically advanced the science of biometric identification, creating a novel technology that can capture the fingerprints of infants and children, even ...
Sep 17, 2018
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