Tau proteins play an important role in Alzheimer's disease. Tau helps to stabilize neurons in the brain, but in Alzheimer's disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons. These tangles ...

At the Yale Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center, an ultra-high-performance brain-dedicated scanner called the NeuroEXPLORER (NX) is redefining what is possible in brain PET imaging. Subscribe to ...

A team of researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has identified important differences in how early ...

Brain imaging offers a way to examine how different regions of the brain participate in cognitive function”— Dr.

NEW ORLEANS (June 23, 2025)—A novel PET imaging approach has revealed distinct patterns of brain inflammation in patients with progressive apraxia of speech (PAOS), a rare neurodegenerative disorder ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, and approximately 30% of patients develop treatment-resistant depression (TRD), a condition that does not respond ...

PET scans showing brain estrogen receptor (ER) density in a premenopausal (left) and a postmenopausal (right) woman. The color scale reflects brain ER density, with brighter colors indicating more ...

Researchers used a novel PET tracer to visualize how ketamine alters AMPA receptor distribution in the brains of patients with treatment-resistant depression. Receptor density increased in cortical ...

A new brain-imaging study has revealed how ketamine produces its fast antidepressant effects in people with treatment-resistant depression. Researchers tracked changes in a critical brain receptor ...