(Photo: Peter Wiarda) There is no MRI test or CAT scan to diagnose synesthesia ... but he says they are broadly distributed across the brain and not in areas devoted to perception.

For many patients, the journey to diagnosis becomes a frustrating maze of inconclusive tests and mounting symptoms despite “normal” brain scans. This diagnostic gap stems not from patient ...

There is no blood test or brain scan to determine who has autism ... referring to his synesthesia. Nearby sat some of their family members, who, like many watching at home, were left drying ...

Brain scans now show that fasting doesn’t just influence how we eat, it reshapes how we think by changing our brains. The practice appears to strengthen regions of the brain involved in focus ...

But instead of celestial bodies sparkling in the night, doctors in South Korea were gazing at bright brain lesions punctuating a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. The resulting pattern ...

This substantially improves the images and enables a clear view of brain structures in the small mouse brain. The transgenic mice used here were widely used in Outeiro's lab, and carried increased ...

the CERVO Brain Research Center, both located in Québec, Canada, have developed a method of diagnosing Parkinson’s disease (PD) early, using a simple and non-invasive eye scan. “By [the time ...

If one properly controls for sexual orientation, the reported neuroanatomical shifts in transgender brain-scan studies diminish greatly or vanish entirely. To illustrate that point, consider three ...

A SPECT scan involves 3-D scans of the patient’s brain that look at blood flow and activity, followed by a custom treatment plan. Matt Fiorenza is a retired firefighter-paramedic who spent 22 ...

A new tool—the SPECT scan—is offering a new way for firefighters ... and it’s creates 3-D scans of the patient’s brain that look at blood flow and brain activity, KTLA reports.

A SPECT scan involves 3-D scans of the patient’s brain that look at blood flow and activity followed by a custom treatment plan. KTLA's Kacey Montoya reports on Feb. 27, 2025. Details ...

“Our test identifies very early stages of tau tangle formation — up to a decade before any tau clumps can show up on a brain scan,” said senior study author Thomas Karikari, an assistant ...