New research suggests that increased activity in the brain's amygdala during pregnancy may indicate a higher risk of postpartum depression.

They analyzed T1-weighted and diffusion MRI scans to study the whole brain and ... ratio (SNR), contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) ...

Around 80% of women suffer from "baby blues" after the birth of their child. Normally this is a brief period of feeling down ...

Vitamin D is linked to a 34% reduction in the relative risk for disease activity in patients with clinically isolated ...

or for those in whom the diagnosis of MS or potential benefit of therapy remains uncertain (including those with one typical brain MRI lesion), we recommend serial brain MRI on a semiannual basis ...

When this happens, gadolinium can enter the brain or spinal cord and leak into an MS lesion, causing it to appear as a highlighted spot on an MRI. In most cases, side effects occur within one hour ...

For diagnosing Multiple Sclerosis, Dr Mahajan recommends MRI. "The areas of damage can be best detected by MRI with a contrast study of brain orbits and spine, CSF study to check for the hyper immune ...

The neural noise hypothesis of dyslexia posits an imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory (E/I) brain activity as an underlying mechanism of reading difficulties. This study provides the first ...

From the third trimester to the second birthday, a million synapses a second are formed in a well-nourished brain, creating ...

Methods 57 patients with epilepsy were identified with language functional MRI (fMRI ... of 74.7 ms, with parallel imaging factor 2. Sixty contiguous axial slices of 2.4 mm thickness were obtained ...