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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"brain scan"”.
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The Brain Scan as Ideograph
… have enabled doctors to render images of the brain without cutting into the body. These images are colloquially called “brain scans.” Through journalism and mass dissemination online, brain scans have become an example of Michael Calvin McGee’s “ideograph,” a language term that subtly takes on …
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Extreme Value Analysis of Huge Datasets: Tail Estimation Methods in High-Throughput Screening and Bioinformatics
… two large scale genomic studies and on an fMRI brain scan experiment. The second paper gives a strict mathematical basis for the above methods. We present asymptotic formulas for the distribution tails of probably the most commonly used statistical tests under non-normality, dependence, and …
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Professional liability
… powers sued the doctor who had performed her brain scan, claiming that she had lost her psychic powers to look into the future. The judge instructed the jury to consider only her complaints about an allergic reaction and to ignore the issue of her psychic powers. She was awarded $988,000. …
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Socioeconomic Neurophysiology: Exploring the relationship between a child’s environment and their neurocognitive development
… (SES) on the neurophysiology of children’s brains. Human beings develop within a variety of social and economic environments. This variability is inevitably reflected in cognition and associated brain activity. This includes stark negative impacts on the lower end of this spectrum. Research …
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Classification of tinnitus versus non-tinnitus hearing impaired subject fMRI data
… disorder. Previous examinations of resting-state brain scan data combined with a priori knowledge in the form of suspect regions found from previous research to show differing activity for tinnitus versus non-tinnitus regions of interest have consistently found spatial and temporal differences in …
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Identifying non-value added waste that delay emergency CT brain workflow using lean management principles
… Schuur Hospital receives numerous emergency CT brain requests especially from the Emergency and Trauma departments. Improvement in emergency CT brain workflow should reduce waiting times for CT scans resulting in earlier diagnosis and treatment of these patients. Identification of the …
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An overview of blood-based biomarkers in AD
… presence of extracellular senile plaques in the brain and the intracellular accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau filaments. However, a relatively cheap and non-invasive method for the diagnosis of AD remains elusive. Recent studies have indicated that cerebral biochemical changes take place …
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Vascular contributors to cognitive impairment and dementia: insights from existing data
… of overt or covert cerebrovascular disease on brain scan reports; and (3) defined by the presence of an ICD-10 code for prior stroke or TIA. Results indicate that individuals with a vascular contribution to dementia have a higher risk of death, stroke, epilepsy, fractures, and hospitalisation …
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Blood pressure variability and the characteristics and outcomes of patients with intracerebral haemorrhage
… vessel disease (CVSD) burden on diagnostic CT brain scan. They were less likely to have CT brain characteristics that predicted the presence of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA)-associated ICH in the cohort. However, after accounting for confounding factors, there were no clear and consistent …
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Impact of acquisition protocol variations on effective dose and risk for CT head examinations
… risk of radiation-induced cancer from different brain CT scan protocols in both paediatrics and adults and to develop a prospective method for estimating the number of cancer cases for patients undergoing CT brain scans when using different scanning parameters. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A series of …
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From Acute to Chronic: Outcomes and Diagnostics in Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the most common neurological disorder worldwide and is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Despite growing evidence of its short- and long-term effects, even following a so called “mild” injury, understanding the intricate relationship between injury …