CHICAGO—This year’s winners of the Alexander R. Margulis Award for Scientific Excellence, presented annually by the RSNA to recognize the best scientific article published in Radiology, are Jeffry W. Prescott, MD, PhD, and his colleagues for their work investigating the brain’s structural connectome in the context of Alzheimer’s disease.

For some, happiness comes from time with family. Others look for happiness in their bank accounts or among material possessions. Researchers from Kyoto University, however, have taken a different tactic in the search for happiness, leveraging structural MRI to address the issue from a neurological perspective.

Age matters when it comes to recovering from mild traumatic brain injury. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s the younger patients who have more malleable neural plasticity, and so recover more fully and more quickly, than their older fellow sufferers. 

The National Football League (NFL) has been under intense scrutiny in recent years as neuroimaging and medical research has shed more light on the damage football can do to the human brain. A new analysis of deceased players’ brain tissue will only heighten these concerns.

PET scans augmented by injections of the beta-amyloid targeting tracer florbetaben F18 are effective at helping confirm or rule out Alzheimer’s disease in patients under evaluation for cognitive impairment.

Italian researchers are touting the possibility that structural MRI might be able to predict the development of autism spectrum disorders and help guide treatment options.

A television classic is being rerun for a new audience: participants in a study using functional MRI to evaluate how older adults respond to stimuli.

While drug abuse can have a negative impact on both sexes, a newly published study has shown women’s brains might suffer more long-term effects from stimulant abuse than men. Neuroimaging has revealed that women who were previously dependent on stimulants demonstrate changes in brain structures involved with reward, learning and executive control.