Novel functional imaging tools to study the organization of the brain in health and disease
MPI Psy Tuesday Seminar
- Date: Dec 15, 2015
- Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Prof. Itamar Kahn
- Brain Systems Organization and Neurodegeneration, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
- Location: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
- Room: Lecture Hall
- Host: Alon Chen
Efforts over the past few years to develop fMRI tools to study functional connectivity in the awake mouse will be described.
The talk will focus on a mouse model of the developmental genetic syndrome neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Using intrinsic functional connectivity MRI in this mouse model the authors were able to identify a novel cellular target that can potentially alleviate the cognitive phenotype of NF1 pediatric patients. The talk will conclude with a discussion of current efforts to enable fMRI of behaving animals.