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fMRI reveals a brain circuit for creativity

AuntMinnie

A group of different brain regions that are activated by creative tasks are part of one common brain circuit, wrote a team led by Julian Kutsche, a researcher with the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The findings were published February 13 in JAMA Network Open.

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Microflow imaging useful in diagnosing breast lesions

AuntMinnie

Researchers led by Runlan Luo, MD, from the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing found that this method along with high-definition microflow imaging outperforms color Doppler flow imaging in diagnosing breast lesions. High-definition microflow imaging meanwhile has been touted as an advanced version of the original method.

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MRI reveals functional brain alterations associated with depression

AuntMinnie

Those who had been identified with Hospital ICD-10 diagnosis codes F32 and F33 and antidepressant use had the most alterations in these measures. "We The team found that, across all depression criteria, study participants with lifetime depression showed consistent decreases in fALFF, LCOR, and GCOR but not in gray matter volume.

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Pre-Hospital Antibiotics in Sepsis?

REBEL EM

PMID: 35387313 Clinical Question: Do prehospital antibiotics impact 28 day mortality, length of stay in the hospital and ICU length of stay for patients triggering sepsis compared to usual care (No prehospital antibiotics)? to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26 to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26

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Can PET help diagnose neurosarcoidosis?

AuntMinnie

To date, F-18 FDG PET findings are currently not taken into account when making a diagnosis for possible, probable, or definite neurosarcoidosis,” noted lead author Jessy Chen, MD, of Charité - Berlin University Medicine, and colleagues. The article was published January 25 in Neurological Research and Practice.

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The Irreplaceable Radiologist

Ben White

The radiologist shortage is definitely here. …Hospitals quite literally cannot operate beyond a few hours without diagnostic radiology. …Hospitals quite literally cannot operate beyond a few hours without diagnostic radiology. Negotiations with the hospital have yielded minimal results. What is a group to do?

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Researchers offer hypothesis for long COVID brain fog

AuntMinnie

“We hypothesize that the hypometabolism pattern observed in long COVID patients with brain fog using F-18 FDG-PET might primarily be a signature of astrocyte-related glutamatergic dysregulation,” wrote lead study author Eric Guedj, MD, PhD, of Marseille University Hospital.

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