Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and AstraZeneca have formed a three-year collaborative research agreement that will apply molecular imaging technologies to generate new diagnostic imaging tools.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto will open the doors to its new Research Imaging Centre, where PET, MRI and genetic imaging will be focused on the study of addictions and mental illness.
The Arlington Innovation Center: Health Research, of Virginia Tech's National Capital Region, has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative research and development agreement from the U.S. Army for neuroimaging studies of human performance. The agreement also includes an option for $3 million of future work based on availability of funding.
A new supplement to the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, “Imaging the Alzheimer Brain,” contains 31 papers that discuss the advances in imaging methodologies that are being used to understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease.
Individuals with deterministic genes in whom it is known that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will develop appear to show differences in beta-amyloid distribution when compared with non-dominantly inherited AD patients, helping to consolidate evidence that PET and MRI can depict brain changes well before the arrival of AD-related symptoms, according to preliminary findings presented July 20 at the 2011 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Paris.
Researchers continue to make headway in grasping the biological nature of Alzheimer’s disease, with a recent study discovering significant increases in the beta-amyloid uptake of florbetapir F18 as viewed on PET, published July 11 in the Archives of Neurology.
Known to be significantly more susceptible to dementia, individuals with Down syndrome appear to display age-related increases in amyloid senile plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles that mirror those increases in Alzheimer’s patients as viewed with PET, according to a study published in the June issue of Archives of Neurology.
Thomas Tulip, PhD, has joined radiopharmaceutical developer Neoprobe as executive vice president and chief business officer.
The automated measurement of temporoparietal brain region volumes is a highly accurate predictor of memory loss in healthy elderly persons, indicating that these underlying characteristics could help clinicians identify likely cases of pre-clinical Alzheimer’s and enable them eventually to prevent the disease’s progression, according to an article published in the June issue of Radiology.
Researchers have been well aware of the high likelihood that individuals suffering from memory loss will convert to Alzheimer’s, but now physicians have a way of predicting an individual patient’s risk of developing the disease, according to an April 6 study published in Radiology. This closes a research gap that crippled early detection and the induction of therapeutic trials for Alzheimer’s.
Written by Clint vanSonnenberg
Forty-two miles north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in the notorious Sunni Triangle lies the largest U.S. military hospital in Iraq, the 332 nd Expeditionary Medical Group in Balad. This level III facility is the epicenter of the military’s highest-ever survival rate—for soldiers wounded on the Iraqi battlefield, 98 times out of 100, if they make it to Balad, physicians will save their lives.
Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, W. Va. has been issued a notice of claim alleging that the hospital’s radiology department overexposed CT angiography patients to radiation by as much as eight times—1.5 to 4.5 Gy—between 2009 and 2010.
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DoE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University in New York, and collaborators have demonstrated the efficacy of a "wearable," portable PET scanner they've developed for rats. The device could give neuroscientists a new tool for simultaneously studying brain function and behavior in fully awake, moving animals.
The Scottish imaging network SINAPSE has formed the Aberdeen Coma Science Group, which will employ functional MRI (fMRI) to investigate brain function and awareness of patients in comas, vegetative states or who suffer from ‘locked in’ syndrome.
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