Other possible causes leading to eclampsia include carrying more than one baby, and a history of diabetes, kidney disease, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. African-American women are at a higher risk of preeclampsia, as are women over age 35, teen pregnancies and first pregnancies.
MRI Can Detect Early Stages of Alzheimer's Disease. the Psychiatry Advisor take: Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new, noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging probe that they say can identify the start of Alzheimerâs disease years before symptoms appear.
CT scans are a specialized kind of X-ray taken of the brain while MRI uses magnets and radio waves that show clearer images of brain tissue. Diffusion MRI measures molecular water motion in the tissue, showing where water diffusion is restricted and therefore brain damage has occurred.n one large study, among others, that was reviewed for the guideline, stroke was accurately detected 83 percent of the time by MRI versus 26 percent of the time by CT. âSpecific types of MRI scans can help reveal how severe some types of stroke are.