Shown are MRI scans of a Huntington’s disease (HD) sufferer’s brain (left) and a normal brain (right). In the HD brain, many brain cells have died and fluid (black areas) has filled in those ...

Now, nearly a century later, investigators are beginning to image amyloid plaques in living brains using both positron emission tomography and MRI ... of the most common brain disorders, and ...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans are used to acquire detailed images of the brain. This is important for research into dementia as it can reveal whether parts of the brain are becoming smaller ...

(A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is made by a pathological evaluation of brain tissue, which is almost never obtained while a person is alive.) What the MRI shows is a disease of the blood ...

A Halifax resident is frustrated after waiting more than three years for an MRI that showed a benign brain tumour and she's worried others are suffering because of an inefficient system.

"We show evidence that the brain changes seen with MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) are in fact a causal link between heading and worse brain function," Lipton told Newsweek. "We assessed heading ...