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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