At age 31, the patient underwent a CT scan after experiencing a head injury during a seizure . The ... Cerebral atrophy and skull thickening due to chronic phenytoin therapy. Kai Ming Chow, Cheuk Chun ...

Brain atrophy can refer to a loss of brain cells, or a loss of connections between them. Learn the symptoms, causes, and treatments. ... This will require an MRI or CT scan.

“In the CT scan on the left is an image from a healthy 3-year-old with an average head size.” “The image on the right is from a 3-year-old child suffering from severe sensory-deprivation ...

Among the patients who underwent CT of the head, those who were at least 60 years of age (P<0.001), those who were immunocompromised (P=0.01), those who had a history of a central nervous system ...

This is also what brain atrophy—as revealed by brain imaging—appears to suggest. "We measured the thickness of the cerebral cortex in 50,000 locations," said Rahayel.

While at the hospital, he underwent CT scans, which showed bilateral subdural hematomas of the head, “blood collected in the space between the brain and the skull,” the lawsuit claims.

Patients who underwent at least one head/neck CT scan exhibited significantly higher risk for childhood brain tumors as those who did not undergo head/neck CT scans (OR = 2.84; 95% CI, 1.12-7.19).

For every 10,000 children who received one head CT examination, about one radiation-induced brain cancer is expected during the 5–15 years following the CT examination, researchers warn.

A new study is helping solve the mystery as to why the brain shrinks in a unique pattern, known as atrophy, in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). This research provides novel evidence that ...

We looked for common threads among reports on how schizophrenia affects the brain. We found that there's atrophy in places ...