This new information on the pathogenesis of both conditions could be useful for the development of interventions targeted at slowing cognitive decline. 

The new Department of Imaging Sciences will be spearheaded by Elizabeth M.C. Hillman, PhD, a physicist, biomedical engineer, neuroscience researcher and inventor.

Experts hope their findings offer valuable insights that one day lead to improved interventions aimed at preserving brain function in patients with Huntington's. 

The study is part of a bigger effort to understand why some children recover better than others following head injuries.

Experts recently uncovered evidence suggesting  behaviors such as undereating, binging and purging could be owed to anatomical alterations in parts of the brain. 

Results from the world’s largest prospective artificial intelligence study revealed the system could significantly benefit breast cancer screening programs.

In some cases, the method even helps to home in on sentinel nodes that may not have been identified during prior biopsy.

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.