met la Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 functional mri ? has anyone read about these tests or know where you can go to get one ? i see pictures on the internet that show activity in the hypothalmus , which identifies a cluster haedache . would love to get one of these , but can t seem to locate a hospital that has the machine to do it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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shocked Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Imaging http://www.uke.de/der-vorstand/dekanat/downloads/geschaeftsfuehrung-dekanat/pom0904-4.pdf shocked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shocked Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 On going in Marseille http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00458770 shocked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shocked Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Hi met la, I know intimately the image that you are seeing “on the internet”. It’s the one showing a brain with a glowing hypothalamus/SCN. It comes from the UCL discovery - Hypothalamic activation in cluster headache attacks. First published in The Lancet 1998. May, Bahra, Buchel, Frackowiak, and Goadsby. http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/155788 I know it intimately because I was the “pain state patient.” A more comprehensive version can be viewed here - http://www.ouch-us.org/chgeneral/hypothalamus/hypothalamus2.htm You may also notice that I use the image as my avatar. Hope this helps shocked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shocked Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Interesting new imaging technique - Real-time functional MRI. Visual representation of brain activity and processes – “thoughts, emotions, pain” -- while it is happening. shocked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shocked Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 First f-MRI plots cerebral activation centre in four patients with episodic cluster headache http://www.mendeley.com/research/functional-magnetic-resonance-imaging-in-episodic-cluster-headache "Positron emission tomography and f-MRI may be regarded as little or no importance in a clinical context, they do, however, offer great potential for the exploration of headache physiopathology and the effects of pharmacological treatment." shocked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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