Bell Pepper MRI scan by Andy Ellison

an mri overlay on one of brooke monk's instagram posts

Brain aneurysm surgery is a brain surgery, done when there is a swollen and bulging brain blood vessel known as brain aneurysm. If this swollen blood vessel bursts or ruptures, it is a life threatening condition as it will cause hemorrhage ( bleeding inside the brain). If a person suffers with long term signs like nausea, vomiting, severe sudden headaches, dizziness, vision problema, pain in the part behind eyes and near eyes, they must visit a neurologist immediately. Brain aneurysm, if detected with the brain Scans, must be operated by the neurosurgeon without delay to prevent any complications. Brain aneurysm surgery is done with great expertise and success by different hospitals in India,like Apollo hospital Chennai. There are some of the best neurosurgeons in chennai also, who perform brain aneurysm surgery. To know more, click here-

Brain Aneurysm Surgery

What the inside of my brain actually looks like… 🧠

(it’s much more comforting to replace my lesions with little Eivors. 😂 But I am SUPER relieved that my scans look pretty stable since last year was hell so the DMT seems to still be working! 🙌)

In 2 weeks I will have an MRI :D . Finally!

WIM DELVOYE I X-RAY 

About to get an MRI done. Fingers crossed for good news. 🤞

Of Brain scans and thievery

I don't like to ask for money at all, especially in these trying times where everyone is struggling, but I had to do various medical exams and while I was at the hospital my wallet got 150 euros lighter because I couldn't keep it on my person at all time (I had an MRI scan to my brain, nothing showed up, I'm good) so if you even have a dollar to spare I'll be forever grateful.

On paypal there's my dead name but I'm in such a borderline desperate situation that I don't care. paypal.me/tricksterchris

Brussel’s Sprouts MRI scan by Andy Ellison

https://gofund.me/prayforjose

Lateralised Thinking

While different brain areas are responsible for processing different things, like what we see or feel, they don’t operate independently. The complex cognitive processes that go on in our heads rely on brain regions being interconnected. The inferior parietal lobe (IPL, outlined here in black) is where many such networks converge and plays a crucial role in both low-level processes like attention and high-level processes like emotion and language. By asking volunteers to perform a series of low and high-level tasks while in an MRI scanner, a team of scientists were able to show increases in brain activity (in red-orange) in the left and right side of the IPL depending on whether it was being used in an attention task (top) or to process language (bottom). This shows us how each side of the IPL has specialised roles, and that they work together to coordinate our complex mental capacities.

Written by Gaëlle Coullon

Image from work by Ole Numssen, Danilo Bzdok and Gesa Hartwigse

Lise Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany and the Dept of Biomedical Engineering, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, March 2021

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I’ve just had an MRI scan, and I’m ngl when you close your eyes it’s a lot like how I imagine purgatory to feel like. Bright white clean lights and somewhere in between the loud (but somehow muffled) buzzing and banging, far away you can hear a faint radio playing Feliz Navidad on loop.

How to dress for a MRI

I’ve had so many of them that I’ve learned to dress for the MRI and I’ve never been asked to change (minus removing my glasses). This also applies for CT scans (metal can obscure the image, but it’s a significantly worse for MRIs given giant magnet likes to pull on metal things that are attracted to it. That’s why they ask in detail about any metal in your body).

*Some places will make everyone change and a lot of places claim they make everyone change. This is really just to encourage people to not wear metal and leave as much as possible at home or in their cars.

Step 1: If you can, bring someone with you to hold your keys, phone, wallet/purse, and/or winter jacket. Lockers are usually provided if you lack someone to hold it for you. That winter jacket can be useful if you lack a bag and it’s cold enough outside. You’ll stuff your phone, keys, and wallet in there (glasses too if you wear them).

Step 2: MRIs are times you want to be as comfortable as possible. They’re obnoxiously loud frozen hellscapes where you’re forced on your back completely still for up to 45 minutes (depending on if they’re doing two scans or a scan with contrast, both will go up to 45 minutes)

Step 3: Remember no metal at all. Metal = danger = changing and we’re trying to avoid that.

-Leggings are your best friend for those who wear them.

-Track pants that have no buttons, snaps, or zippers are also good.

-Honestly, if you don’t have anything to do afterwards, pjs are perfectly acceptable provided there aren’t the metal rings around the holes for the draw strings on the pants.

-T-shirts are great because the more comfortable you can dress, the less miserable you’ll be in coping with everything else. Those who wear bras, you got to wear a sports bra or ditch it for the day. The MRI tech is going to ask about it anyway and make you take it off. You don’t want to experience what MRI machines do to metal and what might happen to you.

-It’s freezing in MRI rooms (only way to keep a giant magnetic from overheating). Long sleeve tees, sweatshirts, and pullover hoodies with the kangaroo pocket are typically ok for MRIs. Just check the hoodie to make sure the opening of the drawstring doesn’t have a metal ring. Anything with snaps, buttons, zippers, or anything else metal is a no go and will have to be removed.

-Make sure your shoes have no metal on them. Shoes often will have the metal eyelets to help with lacing but those are no good (those without the metal eyelets are perfectly fine). Basically if it would set of security, it is a no go for MRIs. The higher priced brands of Nike and Adidas don’t have metal on anything remotely recent. But then with other brands like Sketchers, it depends on the shoe.

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Well ... that was an adventure.

For anyone who hasn't had an MRI scan, it's really noisy, the earplugs help a little bit.

But the funniest bit?

I felt like Virgil going backwards down his chute! Except that you are pinned down and there isn't a sudden drop at the end, nor TB2 waiting for you.

Not that I'd know how the heck to navigate all those controls. They need an expert in the field!