Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Reading CTs

If you have a CT scan that you have never been able to make sense of, check out this site...CT Scan Page You can get to know your own brain anatomy by identifying structures and understanding what functions they are responsible for.
For example, roll the curser over "Amygdala" and identify the same structure on your own scan.. this is the region responsible for emotional coding particularly when related to survival (fear, anger and pleasure) and deciding what aspect should be stored as memory and where.

And another really helpful neuroanatomy site MedWayne Diagradiology Great for getting a feel of what you are looking at on brain scans and orientating yourself around brain anatomy using sulci and gyrus, (the folds and valleys that look very dark on the scans)

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