23 April 2013

3D Brain Decodes Migraine Pain

Wielding a joystick and wearing special glasses, pain researchers from Michigan are hoping to better understand how our brains make their own pain-killing chemicals during a migraine attack. The 3D brain is a novel way to examine data from images taken during a patient's actual migraine attack. 


Different colors in the 3D brain give clues about chemical processes happening during a patient's migraine attack using a PET scan, or positron emission tomography, a type of medical imaging. This high level of immersion effectively places our investigators inside the actual patient's brain image.

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