Equipment allowing UK scientists to track the workings of the brain in much more detail is being unveiled at Cambridge UniversityNew visions of the brain and body’s detailed operations will be unveiled by a suite of medical scanners being opened this week. The newly refurbished Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre in the University of Cambridge has been equipped with some of the world’s most powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) scanners and will give its researchers unprecedented power to make images of cancers, study the precise makeup of the cortex and analyse how chemicals in the brain – known as neurotransmitters – underpin the development of schizophrenia and depression.
The early seeds of dementia bear been hidden to earlier types of MRI – until nowContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com