UZ Leuven is the first hospital in the world to use a revolutionary scanner for brain research in patients. The new, highly ...
A team of researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has identified important differences in how early ...
Alzheimer's disease is commonly known for its symptoms—memory loss, cognitive impairment, difficulty with daily tasks—but it ...
PET brain scans from the same individual with early signs of Alzheimer’s disease comparing two tau radiotracers: flortaucipir, shown at top, and the investigational tracer MK6240, shown at bottom.
A new PET imaging approach that measures synaptic density in the spinal cord provides a quantitative way to assess the brain's functional wiring in patients with multiple sclerosis.
A cognitive researcher at Brown University is leading the Rhode Island team in a multi-city initiative, called the HEAD study ...
Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons.
The degree to which unwanted traumatic memories force their way into a person’s consciousness—and the intensity with which ...