Multi-modal MRI-Diagnostic Biomarker:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

The University of Michigan’s Bradley R. Foerster, M.D., Ph.D., discusses a technique that uses two different types of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on the brain to more accurately diagnose amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) than using a single type of MRI alone. Dr. Foerster, an Emerging Scholar at the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute, says the finding that could lead to earlier diagnoses of the deadly disease and ultimately to more effective treatments for patients. The findings were published in the ‘Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology.’