The preliminary results of a new study published in the medRxiv preprint server highlight variances in fetal brain development based on mothers’ perceived stress during the onset of COVID.

Compared to a group of patients who had not been previously diagnosed with Lyme disease, those who had been infected displayed unusual activity in the frontal lobe of the brain on functional MRI scans.

Using MRI imaging, the experts found that patients who experienced functional seizures had thinning in the superior temporal cortex and thickening of the left occipital cortex.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Philips 510(k) clearance for its AI-powered MRI platform tailored to the treatment of head and neck cancers. 

In recent years the world’s supply of helium has raised heightened concerns, and some suppliers recently started to ration the nonrenewable element. 

While FIF is an extremely rare condition—occurring in about one in 500,000 births—it is even more rare in triplet pregnancies.

On MRI and PET brain scans, women who were exposed to a small dose of nicotine showed altered activity in the thalamus region of the brain.

Prior studies have focused on radiologist performance rather than patient outcomes, leaving the topic of variable diagnoses and what factors impact them—race, ethnicity, age, biopsy type, etc.—open for debate.