limited brain damage and improved behavior. These findings highlight the receptor’s potential as a therapeutic target for preventing epilepsy. The study also introduces a promising diagnostic approach ...

In someone with cognitive complaints, Dr. Niotis says the most common brain scans performed are Amyloid PET scans and FDG-PET scans. "Amyloid PET scans tell us if someone has accumulated the toxic ...

18F-DOPA PET uses a radioactive tracer that is particularly adept at picking up abnormalities in certain neurons. After the brain scans, the researchers targeted the active cancer regions with a ...

Typically, patients with lung cancer will be started on a treatment plan—such as chemotherapy—and then wait 12 weeks to have a CT or PET scan to see whether the treatment has shrunk the tumor ...