Brain scans are still important for bipolar disorder research. MRI and CT scans can provide detailed images of the brain and its structures. But currently, doctors don’t use them to diagnose ...

Jac Sexton, 19, died months after doctors misdiagnosed his terminal brain cancer as an ear infection, initially sending him home with antibiotics.

After a CT scan and MRI, doctors found multiple tumors on my brain, which they believe have been growing for at least 6 months.” The star said she’d have a few tumors removed during surgery ...

Repeated CT scans of the head during childhood have also been linked to a slight increase in the risk of developing a brain tumor later in life due to radiation exposure. In a landmark 2009 study ...