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Brain scan abnormalities not uncommon (AP)

October 31st, 2007 by Yahoo! News: Health News

An undated image of the human brain taken through scanning technology. The scan shows a person responding to a visual scene, with the imaging technology measuring increases in blood flow to a certain region of the brain. Neuroscientists use functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques -- in which a person's head is put in a machine like a giant magnet -- to gaze deep within the brain to view neural regions that monitor behavior and regulate emotions. (Sage Center for the Study of the Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara/Handout/Reuters)AP – One in 60 older people may be walking around with benign brain tumors and don’t know it. Even more may have bulging blood vessels in the head that could burst. These results come from a surprising new Dutch study that finds brain abnormalities are not all that uncommon.


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