Alcoholism is a devastating disorder that too often leads to a perpetual cycle of abuse. An emerging molecular imaging technique may provide a way to break that cycle. It could signal patients ...

Alcoholism is a devastating disorder that too often leads to a perpetual cycle of abuse. An emerging molecular imaging technique may provide a way to break that cycle. It could signal patients ...

A PET scan is a type of imaging that can show what’s happening in your body. Learn why you might need one, what makes it different from other types of imaging, how to get ready, and what to expect.

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 ...

To see which regions of the brain were more or less active while drinking, researchers gave a group of subjects a PET scan after injecting them with harmless radioactive glucose, the brain's ...

PET scans provide information on neuronal and functional activity by imaging the uptake of radioactive tracers in the brain. But clinical PET systems are extremely sensitive to motion and require ...

Alcohol in moderation may help the heart by calming stress signals in the brain Date: May 6, 2021 Source: American College of Cardiology Summary: Moderate alcohol intake -- defined as no more than ...

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.

But brain imaging studies of cocaine addiction do not find differences between experienced cocaine users who were addicted and those who were not.

A novel PET imaging method successfully quantifies COX-2 enzyme levels in the human brain. This technique opens the door for earlier detection, monitoring of disease progression, and evaluating ...