Society of Nuclear Medicine. (2016, June 13). PET/CT reveals adaptations of the alcoholic brain. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 26, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 06 ...

The PET imaging agent F-18 FPEB, which binds with mGluR5 receptors, was administered to 16 recently sober subjects, ranging from 32 to 57 years of age, and 32 healthy controls with no alcoholism ...

A novel PET imaging approach has revealed distinct patterns of brain inflammation in patients with progressive apraxia of speech (PAOS), a rare neurodegenerative disorder that affects speech planning.

Imaging the moving brain Julie Brefczynski-Lewis (left), a research assistant professor in the WVU School of Medicine, and students Colson Glover (centre) and Nanda K Siva conduct a walking PET scan ...

Highly active regions consume more glucose, and those regions are brightly lit during the PET scan, ... we still had no mechanism that could explain why alcohol was reducing these brain functions.

Of the patients included, 752 underwent 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, or PET imaging, which is often used as part of cancer screening but can also show areas in the brain ...

A novel PET imaging approach can effectively quantify a key enzyme associated with brain inflammation, according to research published in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.The ...

The team used a special type of brain scan called tau PET, which tracks a protein known as tau that builds up in the brain ...

If I Only Had a Brain Scan. ... Alcohol and barbiturates were added to the list later, ... (PET) scans to show that even when cocaine addicts merely watch videos of people using cocaine, ...

A study presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) reveals how brain receptors involved in the compulsion to drink, adapt to alcohol ...

A novel PET imaging approach can effectively quantify a key enzyme associated with brain inflammation, according to research published in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.The ...