Dear MRI Insider,
We're all about the brain in this installment of the MRI Insider, starting with a report from the 2006 American Neurological Association (ANA) meeting on diffusion tensor imaging in patients with movement disorders. The authors of this study suggested that idiopathic dystonia is a functional and structural disorder. Click here for the details.
Another ANA paper used functional MRI (fMRI) to gain insight into why patients with autism have a difficult time with social and communication skills. To learn more, click here.
Other MRI Digital Community articles that focus on neuroimaging include:
- Using MR spectroscopy to link brain structure to functional outcomes in first-episode psychotics
- Relying on MR neurography to define muscular entrapment of the sciatic nerve
- Combining MRI and electroencephalograms to look at brain connectivity in autism
- Tracking prefrontal cortex disturbances in cocaine addicts with fMRI
Finally, we'd like to know how you plan to stimulate your neurons at the 2006 RSNA meeting (besides lots of caffeine). Are there particular presentations -- either on neuroradiology or MRI in general -- that you are looking forward to attending? Feel free to e-mail me with your predictions for hot topics in MRI, and perhaps we'll see each other in Chicago!
