Description
Zoom webinar:
https://fz-juelich-de.zoom.us/j/67716299814?pwd=Q3dBRXZQa3NLL1Y2TVYvUlBqV0lQQT09
Kenncode: 749254
Chair: Arthur W. Toga, Lyuba Zehl
The brainstem is a crucial yet understudied structure of the human brain. Due to the technical difficulties of imaging deep brain structures, the cerebral cortex has long been the focus of in-vivo human imaging studies. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in particular has deepened our understanding of the cortex, including the presence of functionally specialized brain regions,...
The cerebral cortex shows subtle left-right morphological asymmetry supporting hemispheric specialization of functional processes including attention and language, which is also associated with neuropsychiatric conditions. However, previous studies consider gray matter as a morphological feature rather than a laminar structure to study asymmetry. Here, we leveraged intensity profiles from...
Regulation of cortical microcircuits is crucial for optimal neural processing. Adolescence involves substantial macro- and microscale changes in the brain, including maturation of cortical microcircuits. Evidence from animal studies suggests a calibration of cortical microcircuits and excitation-to-inhibition (E-I) ratio during adolescence. However, in-vivo measurement of cortical...
Robust, validated, and widely accessible tools are necessary for consistent scientific advancement and discovery. In neuroimaging, scientific advancement has outpaced the availability of well-implemented, trustworthy tools, forcing researchers to generate in-house software. Unfortunately, such in-house software rarely follows best practices of software engineering, documentation, testing, or...
Biological, social, cultural and economics factors are important determinants of health/disease status and well-being throughout life. We are presenting the open-source ecosystem “SynthEco” which utilizes statistically representative synthetic populations derived from census data for a given geospatial granularity to create a complex digital ecosystem to analyze the brain-to-society pathways...
