Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen‘s pioneering approach to cognitive function and mental health centers on SPECT scans of the brain, which he uses to analyze physiological activity instead of a traditional ...

"Typically, when a patient presents with chest pain and the [SPECT] test result is normal, we tell them everything looks fine, but this may not be the case," says John Mahmarian, M.D., a cardiologist ...

Patients who receive cardiac positron emission testing (PET) imaging instead of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scan experienced a significant increase in the detection of severe ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often described as one of the invisible scars that firefighters and others accumulate after years of dealing with trauma in their jobs. Now the scars are ...

People with autism may be up to six times more likely to develop Parkinson's disease in later life. New research offers a ...

The Rotary Club of Kigali Virunga marked its 25th anniversary with a fundraising exercise that targeted placing advanced medical equipment at the center of its long-term vision to support the health ...

Can a simple brain scan determine how old your brain is? Your brain is as old as you are in chronological years, of course, but what about in wear-and-tear years? It would be an exciting prospect if ...

On May 22, 2002, the body of Juliette Williamson was found washed up on Yerba Buena Island in the San Francisco Bay. Williamson and her long-time partner Bruce Brooks were well-known street performers ...