They show up as bright white spots when you get a brain MRI: lesions called white matter hyperintensities, or WMH. And their ...

The technique is often used to look at the brain and spinal cord and can help detect and diagnose a wide range of diseases. Clinicians may also notice bright, white spots on MRIs of the brain. These ...

Certain markers of injury to the brain's white matter, called white matter hyperintensities, can be seen on brain scans. Skip to content. Menu. Medical Home Life Sciences Home. Become a Member.

Discover the multiple sclerosis (MS) patterns that standard brain scans frequently overlook and why these missed indicators could delay crucial early treatment.

Certain markers of injury to the brain's white matter, called white matter hyperintensities, can be seen on brain scans. A new study finds that brain scans taken during the lifetimes of athletes ...

Surprisingly, in each transsexual person’s brain the structure of the white matter in the four regions was halfway between that of the males and females (Journal of Psychiatric Research, DOI ...

Scans of preschoolers’ brains show a stark difference in brain development when read to by a parent as compared to when they are playing on screens alone, studies show.

Scans of the changes that occur in the brain of a pregnant woman. Nature Neuroscience. Researchers followed a 38-year-old woman three weeks before conception, and two years postpartum, tracking ...

The researchers used a type of MRI scan called diffusion-weighted imaging, which allowed them to look at white matter regions, or tracts, in the brain. White matter provides the structural ...