brain scan

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Kim Kardashian says a recent brain scan left her stunned, after a celebrity psychiatrist told her the frontal lobes of her brain show unusually low activity, a finding sometimes tied to chronic stress and cognitive overload.

From Salon

But despite similar reports over the next two centuries, the connection between dreams and disease remained obscure—so much so that Alda had to convince his neurologist to do a brain scan for Parkinson’s after he read about the link in a 2015 news article.

From Scientific American

But it will also be worthwhile to continue trying to develop a blood test, spinal fluid test or brain scan that will measure oligomers, which are currently undetectable in living patients.

From Scientific American

Before the extension trial started, a brain scan revealed signs of a few microhemorrhages, but they were not serious enough to rule her out of the trial.

From Science Magazine

One woman was told she was being “dramatic” when she pleaded for a brain scan after suffering months of headaches and pounding in her ears.

From Washington Post