Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Adrenal incidentaloma (AI) refers to an otherwise unsuspected adrenal mass found in up to 5 % of patients undergoing radiological imaging. As high as one in five incidentalomas are functional; hypersecretion of cortisol causing Cushing’s or Subclinical Cushing’s Syndrome (SCS), catecholamines leading to pheochromocytoma, aldosterone resulting in primary aldosteronism (Conn’s syndrome), androgens leading to virilization of patients, and in very rare cases renin manifesting as secondary…

Teens are considered “adults” at the ripe age of eighteen. They are often asked to make life changing decisions at this time in their life, such as moving out or marriage. Researchers often wonder if this age is too young to make reasonable choices. There has been numerous studies on a substance found in adolescents known as gray matter. Gray matter is the cause for this stupidity found in teenagers. According to The Teen Brain Still Under Construction,”...Volume of gray matter was the highest…

DIFERENCIAL “Nadie es capaz de señalar el lugar del cerebro dónde se desarrollan las buenas ideas.” This quote extracted from Miguel Delibes’ novel, from the fifties, ‘El Camino’, reflects how the brain has long-time been known to be the organ where intelligence inhabits, though no one has ever been able to precisely allocate where those ‘good ideas’ come from. The uncertainty surrounding this brain-intelligence dimension will consequently be exposed and discussed. Professor Hunt probably makes…

and study an individual’s brain function, thus indicating how these techniques help to understand how the brain works, some of these techniques include: Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Computed Tomographic (CT), Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Magnetoencephalography (MEG). This essay will discuss techniques in detail, in order to attempt to determine how much certain neuroscientific techniques have contributed to the understanding of brain…

Picard et. al; 2009; Fivush, 2011). Previous studies examining the neural correlates of autobiographical memory using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), have found that the hippocampus also plays critical role in autobiographical memory (e.g. Cabeza et al., 2004; Daselaar et al., 2008). Specifically, studies comparing individuals with memory disorders such as Alzihmers and Schizophrenia…

opinion by pointing out a recent experiment that neuroimaging technology suggested that drug related terms such as “addiction” or “fix” aren’t accurate words we should use to describe our most cherished personal relationships. With functional magnetic resonance imaging tests his team saw that the activity in the brain when exposed to Apple, Harley-Davidson and religious images had the same reaction. Showing that the proper way to describe consumer’s devotion to iPhones is “love”. Then,…

brain because it is not fully developed and it is exposed to environmental factors. During the teenage years, the brain is in a significant and crucial time of development. Furthermore, current research, powered by devices such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, concluded that the adolescent brain has rapid growing synapses and section that are unconnected. Since the sections are unconnected, it makes teenagers more inclined to impulsive decisions. These impulsive decision can lead…

The world of medicine has always greatly interested me. From a young age, I had been exposed to the medical profession through my father, a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. I was always fascinated and interested by his daily work, and enjoyed learning household medical advice from a young age, like how to more effectively prevent infection from scraped knees and similar injuries commonplace during childhood. As I progressed through school, I always felt a greater affinity…

The potentials of neuroimaging technologies are vast. During his lecture on the principles of neuroimaging data, Dr. Lindquist highlighted “emerging applications” of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as a means to predict not only health status, but also human behavior (Lindquist, 2016). But, does this mean that neuroimaging has the ability to predict or even influence the success of political campaigns? Neuropolitics, an arising field, posits that it can. In “Neuropolitics, Where…

symptoms and can be rolled out by rheumatoid factor titer (Dunphy et al., 2015, p. 914). Septic arthritis is bacterial infection that leads to inflammatory response and is considered to be a medical emergency as it can lead to rapid anatomical and functional impairment (Tejera, Riveros, Martínez-Morillo, & Cañellas, 2014). Septic arthritis should be considered when patients present with inflammatory symptoms and these patients should undergo arthrocentesis to rule it out (Kennedy-Malone et al.,…