An imaging agent reveals aggregated tau protein in the brain during PET scans and could improve the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly tauopathies.

The Stanford Medical School professor’s research aided the development of positron emission tomography (PET) reporters to identify disease.

Conflicting results on the existence of new neurons in adults have researchers designing new ways to identify and count neuronal progenitors—and finally get to the bottom of neurogenesis.

A study hints that it might be possible to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease associated with frequent head injuries, while patients are still living.

The new technology could allow for new and improved applications in both medicine and research.  

For the first time, researchers visualize histone deacetylase in the brains of healthy volunteers.

Dopamine receptors in the cortex orient the brain toward the task at hand.

Overall brain metabolic rate can distinguish between pathological states of human consciousness, a study shows.

Director of Radiochemistry, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School. Age: 35