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...Holman gained renown in radiology circles in 1986 for his application of SPECT to identify brain activity associated with Alzheimer's disease...
While his work focused primarily on SPECT, some of Dr. Holman's most ground-breaking research came in 1987 when he used X-ray and CAT-scan imaging to analyze the bodies of several Egyptian mummies...
...Holman was perhaps best known, however, for his study of cocaine's effects on the brain. Using three-dimensional scans of brain activity, he and his colleagues at Brigham and Women's discovered that cocaine impedes blood flow to the brain and other parts of the body...
They documented their findings in the educational film, "Cocaine and the Brain," produced by Holman, which is currently used by the government in the treatment of recovering cocaine addicts...
This study secured for Holman the prestigious Gold Medal of the Association of University Radiologists in 1996. The same year, Pannona University in Hungary awarded him an honorary doctorate for his contributions to the field of radiology...