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Pregnancy can actually shrink parts of a woman's brain, study finds!
For decades, pregnant women’s forgetfulness and ditzyness have been labelled ‘pregnancy brain’. Ho…
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Researchers used the world's most powerful MRI to get brain scans that are 10 times as detailed as a hospital MRI — take a look
Researchers unveiled images of the brain from the world's most powerful MRI, which could lead to br…
Jenny McGrath
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Brain scans show teen girls aged 4 years faster than boys during COVID lockdowns. We asked the researcher what that means long-term.
A study found that teen girls' brains aged 4.2 years faster than average during the pandemic. They …
Julia Pugachevsky
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Kim Kardashian shares her experience getting a $2,500 full-body MRI scan that experts say could do more harm than good
Kim Kardashian underwent a Prenuvo MRI scan, a treatment some experts say can unnecessarily encoura…
Hannah Getahun,Kate Hull
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Meet Prenuvo, a company that says its whole-body MRI scan can detect the earliest stages of disease. Experts say it could do more harm than good.
Prenuvo offers whole-body MRI scans to the general public. Experts say that you probably don't need…
Sarah Braner
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Kris Jenner's full-body preventative MRI on 'The Kardashians' is just the latest example of the family's obsession with expensive (and unnecessary) healthcare treatments
Kris Jenner's full-body MRI isn't the first time the family has displayed an expensive and inaccess…
Palmer Haasch
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World’s smallest MRI scanned — and it did not capture the human body this time
The researchers came up with an MRI machine that can measure millions of spins of not just o…
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A new brain imaging study shows what anorexia does to a person's brain, and how weight gain appears to reverse the changes
Young women with anorexia had reduced cortical thickness, which has been linked to lower general in…
Rachel Hosie
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Brain scans reveal unique signs of ADHD in children, which could someday be used to better diagnose the disorder
Yale researchers saw unusual connectivity between the brain's attention and default networks, which…
Andrea Michelson
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Facebook is trying to use AI to make MRI scans ten times faster
The efforts are a major foray by Facebook into into the medical space, as it attempts to apply its …
Rob Price
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Don't get breast exam soon after your COVID-19 vaccine, experts say
A harmless side effect of the shot can be swollen lymph nodes. That means the vaccine is working, b…
Kelsie Sandoval
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Brain scans reveal soccer player who died in 2020 had CTE, the brain disease that's rocked the NFL
Scientists, who also diagnosed CTE in NFL star Aaron Hernandez, said the death of MLS player Scott …
Jake Johnson
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Facial-recognition software is now so advanced that it can identify you only from an MRI scan of your brain, a new study reveals
Using commonly available facial-recognition software, Mayo Clinic researchers found that it was abl…
Mary Meisenzahl
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Brain scans show grandmas really do feel more affection toward their grandkids than their adult children, scientists say
The "grandmother hypothesis" may explain why women evolved to live longer than men: to help care fo…
Andrea Michelson
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This handheld 3D body scanning device could replace the MRI - using the motion-sensing technology from a Nintendo Wii
With typical ultrasound technology, doctors can only get a two-dimensional visual slice of an organ…
Hilary Brueck
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IBM's Watson could learn how to identify cancer and heart disease from X-rays and MRI scans
IBM plans to have Watson compare this wealth of images to lab results, electronic health records, g…
Tanya Lewis
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Can you detect a lie by scanning someone's brain?
A glaring issue is that many of the subjects of past studies don't represent the type of person you…
Julia Calderone
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Excess abdominal fat linked to widespread chronic pain in women, study finds
The researchers, including those from the University of Tasmania, Australia, also found that women …
PTI
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Study finds unique patterns like 'fingerprints' in brains of people who are born blind
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), included a smal…
PTI
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Heard of face blindness? Researchers just used ‘Game of Thrones’ to better understand the disorder
The choice of ‘Game of Thrones’ had nothing to do with Arya Stark’s encounters with the Faceless Me…