Dr. Michael Koren joins Kevin Geddings to discuss advances in brain imaging technology. The doctor opens with a fun story about a breakup in college, then moves to discuss how brain imaging for Alzheimer’s may move from noisy tunnels to a dentist-chair-like apparatus for easier scanning in a smaller space. The duo brings it together with the benefits of clinical research and how those who participate may get access to the newest technologies.
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Episode Transcript
Welcome to the Med Evidence! Monday Minute Radio
Show, hosted by Kevin Geddingsof WSOS Radio and powered by
ENCORE Research Group.
Each Monday morning, Dr.
Michael Koren calls us to bringyou the latest medical update
of the title discussion.
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Classic song from Joe Cocker. Unfortunately she wrote him a letter, Dr. Koren. Now I guess it would be a short text of 129 characters. It wouldn't be a letter.
Dr. Michael Koren (00:45):
That's right.
Keving Geddings (00:46):
You remember that song?
Joe Cocker song?
Dr. Michael Koren (00:49):
I do.
She Wrote me a Letter, yeah. Didyou ever get a letter from a
romantic interest?
Like a long letter that wasless than good?
That was less than good.
Um if I did, I have suppressedthat memory.
Keving Geddings (01:03):
Usually the letters were good, right?
I mean, even in our day, thebreakups were usually, or at
least in my life, by phone,right?
I mean, or it was in in person.
It wasn't really a lettersaying you're dumb.
Well, I guess that's the oldterm Dear John letter, right?
Dr. Michael Koren (01:17):
Yeah.
Well I'll I'll tell you onefunny personal story about a
breakup.
Um when I was in school inBoston, I had a girlfriend who
was living in in uh New York, inGreat Neck, New York, and uh
had a breakup with her and umwent to her apartment in Great
Neck and drove down from Boston.
(01:38):
We're having this intenseconversation and we're breaking
up and then her roommate knockson the door and says, I hate to
disturb you, but Michael, Ithink your car is on fire in the
parking lot.
Keving Geddings (01:51):
No way.
Dr. Michael Koren (01:52):
I swear to God.
So I said, What?
So of course I go out andthere's the fire department
there trying to put out a firefor my car in the parking lot.
We we don't know exactly whoset the car on fire, but uh
yeah, this girl was um waspretty clever, so I guess uh she
was getting revenge even beforewe officially broke up.
Keving Geddings (02:12):
That's a great story.
That's like uh that's likesitcom material right there.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, and it and she had a goodplausible deniability because
she was there with you, so youcouldn't say, hey, this crazy
girl set my car on fire becauseshe was with you the whole time.
Dr. Michael Koren (02:26):
Exactly.
Keving Geddings (02:27):
That's brilliant.
But uh well, Dr.
Koren is with us, of course,medical doctor, cardiologist, uh
research scientist, and weappreciate him taking time out
of his day on Monday mornings tojoin us, always with some good
information.
Uh today we thought we wouldtalk a little bit about uh a lot
of us have had this fear ofimaging and MRIs and these sorts
of things where we have to getslid into this big noisy device,
(02:47):
but there may be some change onthe way, right, Dr.
Koren?
Dr. Michael Koren (02:50):
Yeah, you you bring up an interesting um area
where technology is developingvery, very rapidly.
If people had to go into bigmachines to get a CAT scan or an
MRI or a PET scan, but that'schanging fairly rapidly.
And this past week a companyapproached us about helping them
develop a PET scanner for thebrain, more specifically looking
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for signs of Alzheimer'sdementia, which can actually be
attached to something that lookslike a dentist chair.
And you get into this littledentist chair, there's a uh an
apparatus that goes around yourhead, and this can help us
diagnose Alzheimer's disease.
So we were brainstorming withthis group that's actually out
of Europe, talking about how wecan develop them in clinical
(03:33):
trials here in the UnitedStates.
And so uh we'll see if thatproject gets up and going.
But it speaks to the fact thatin clinical research there's
more and more opportunities forcommunity patients, and there
are more and more opportunitiesfor community physicians to
interface with technology groupsall over the world to develop
really the the most amazingthings for our patients and
(03:54):
things that move scienceforward.
So that's a super exciting partof my job.
Keving Geddings (03:58):
Right.
And it also reminds us that umby sort of being connected to
one of our research sites as apatient, you'll get insights
into what's the latest andgreatest in all these new
technologies.
Right.
Yeah, indeed, as this movesforward and you get to hopefully
have these clinical trials forthis particular device, people
would get to sit in this, youknow, dental chair type device
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and perhaps learn what's goingon, you know, inside their
brains as it relates to dementiaand other issues, right?
Dr. Michael Koren (04:26):
Yeah, absolutely.
Now, just to be clear, we wedon't have that in St.
Augustine at the moment, uh,something that may or may not
come, but uh we do do studiesright now for Alzheimer's
disease and we do do free memorytesting for patients that are
concerned about it.
We also uh do evaluations formigraines and a lot of other
things in the neurologicalspace.
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And uh if you have a concernabout headaches or you have a
concern about your memory orhave a loved one with concerns
about that, please let us knowand we'll check it out.
And along the way, either wewill get you involved in
something that's going on herein Northeast Florida, or we'll
show you where the the latestand greatest is happening, and
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in some cases uh the studieswill actually pay for you to
travel to wherever thattechnology is being shown.
So um we're having a discussionwith this group about whether
or not we should have one ofthese newfangles uh scanners
here in Florida or another partof the country.
Uh but nonetheless, if you gotinvolved in a study that used
that scanner, there's a goodchance that we can actually get
(05:31):
you to that site for thattechnology.
Keving Geddings (05:34):
It's pretty amazing.
It's kind of interesting whatwe're doing.
Yeah, no, that's really cool stuff.
Dr.
Michael Korenn, thank you againfor your time this morning.
Be safe out there, okay?
Dr. Michael Koren (05:41):
All right, you too.
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