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New Image Based Strategy Brain Disorders

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At The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, they have discovered a new way to measure placebo effects related with brain disorders. Dr. Eidelburg and his team have conducted clinical trails to experiment with their new strategy. With this new research investigators can see if someone has or is at risk for Parkinson’s disease as well as other brain disorders based on the images that map out abnormal brain patterns. Their new strategy is used to find a new way to discover “neurodegenerative disorders”(Eidelburg). Based on other trails it is at times difficult to know if patients are really having a placebo effect or are experiencing a “sham effect”(Eidelburg). Which makes it challenging for the researches to tell if treatment is actually effective or not. That is why researchers from the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research are trying their new image-based strategy. This new study is going to be able to help patients learn if they are at risk for brain disorders. I don't believe studies on brain disorders is in the textbooks and I'm not sure if it will be in the future but It is an interesting study that could help patients identify if they are at risk for brain disorders. ======

References: [Ji Hyun Ko, Andrew Feigin, Paul J. Mattis, Chris C. Tang, Yilong Ma, Vijay Dhawan, Matthew J. During, Michael G. Kaplitt, David Eidelberg. **Network modulation following sham surgery in Parkinson’s disease**. //Journal of Clinical Investigation//, 2014; DOI: 10.1172/JCI75073

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