A Look Inside the Human Brain
Dimitrios Pantazis, Christina Triantafyllou, Quanzheng Li
Wed, Fri, Jan 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27, 12:30-02:00pm, 46-3015
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Modern imaging technologies at MIT and MGH provide exciting new ways to understand the structure and function of the human brain. We will provide guided tours to our imaging facilities and show how we use these tools to look inside the brain. Our recently installed MEG scanner, capable of measuring magnetic fields a billionth of the magnetic field of earth, can record the simultaneous firing of thousands of cortical neurons as they form dynamic networks. Our MRI scanner provides high resolution images of the human brain as subjects are exposed to a wide variety of visual, auditory, and somatosensory stimuli. Our PET scanners can reveal molecular events of normal and diseased brain that are the intrinsic basis of pathology of all kinds of brain functions. We will introduce these technologies, discuss their contribution to neuroscience, and talk about their potential for future improvement.
Web: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/insidehumanbrai/
Contact: Dimitrios Pantazis, 46-511A, 715-4330, pantazis@mit.edu
Sponsor: Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Latest update: 04-Jan-2012
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