A brain-scanning technique might one day help identify people with a disease linked to concussions in football and other sports, an illness now diagnosed only after death, a small study suggests. {read more here}

A brain imaging study in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience found people whose levels of oxytocin are naturally high demonstrate greater brain activity and may process social information more meaningfully than people with low levels of oxytocin, such as those with autism spectrum disorder. The study examined participants’ brain activity while performing a social perception task. {read more here}

Our era is information-rich beyond any time before it, and certainly beyond the ability of anyone to retain and process. The interview with Lincoln Berland, MD, in this edition of Partner Voice brings into stark relief the challenge radiologists have in managing the increasingly complex body of radiological knowledge. He reports on a collaborative effort that is bringing forth an intuitive new tool to provide clinical guidance where it is needed most—within the reporting process. {read more here}

An observational finding found a large variation in the brain SUV in patients with multiple myeloma undergoing PET/CT. The first hypothesis considered a toxic effect of chemotherapeutic agents, but no correlation was found with hematological signs of toxicity. Low brain FDG uptake has been described with anesthesia, but this was not relevant in this case. {read more here}