Chicago's Loyola Medicine released a statement today announcing it is the first center in the Midwest to offer an effective PET/CT scan procedure specifically for prostate cancer.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated that near-infrared (NIR) light can be used not only to image the brain but also, potentially, to treat it for post-traumatic stress disorder. 

Researchers using powerful 7 Tesla MRI have gotten a peek inside the brains of amputees as they process phantom sensations years after the loss of their limbs.

Teens aren’t going to like this: Neuro MRI has helped researchers accurately predict which young persons are likely to become heavy drinkers by the time they turn 18. If readily replicable, the work may suggest modes of pre-problem intervention.

Coaches, doctors, players and parents could improve high school athletes’ recovery times if they followed medical guidelines more strictly, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. That’s because student athletes who re-entered game play right after a concussion had doubled recovery times than kids who sat out right away, which is what current medical guidelines recommend. 

Virtual reality is believed effective in pain management for its ability to “swamp the brain” with so much sensory stimulation that some pain signals get crowded out. MRI studies have shown this effect in action. 

Lucy, a 3.2-million-year old skeleton of the hominim species Australopithecus afarensis, is among the most famous specimens in anthropology since her discovery in Ethiopia in 1974. A recent report in Nature Communications details how a team used the High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility at Jackson School of Geosciences to scan Lucy for 10 consecutive days.

Neuroscience researchers and clinicians at UCLA have used MR-guided ultrasound to help rouse a recovering coma patient to a more alert state of consciousness.