Re: A new PD study!

[Murray Charters <Murray_Charters@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 Jul 2000, at 10:25, Bill Innanen wrote:

> I'm going to be in another PD study!  The Udall Parkinson's Center at
> Johns Hopkins is doing a study of reaction time in Parkinson's
> patients.  Christina (one of the people who were administering the
> tests for the Hopkins Longitudinal Study [1]) called me at home
> yesterday to ask if I was interested, but all she got was my
> answering machine.  Today I called back and agreed to be a victim.
>
>  From what Christina said it's a 3-way study of reaction time.  One of
> the sections is the same reaction time test on the laptop that I did
> in the Longitudinal Study.  In fact it sounded as if I won't have to
> repeat that segment.  Then they hook you up to an EEG and monitor
> your brain waves while doing similar reaction time tests.  The third
> segment is the most exciting.  It will be testing reaction time while
> they monitor my brain functions in a fMRI machine (functional MRI -
> they can see segments of the brain light up as they are used).  One
> of the many questions Christina asked was if I was claustrophobic.
> I'll be spending several hours in the machine.
>
> I quipped that they would probably find that my skull was completely
> hollow.  Christina said that is a universal response to a first MRI
> of the head - everybody says that!  (And here I thought I was being
> original.)
>
> The tests are being run on Wednesdays when they have the fMRI macnine
> time.  My appointment is for 2 August.  She will be sending me more
> explanatory material soon (by snail-mail presumably).
>
> I'm excited!
>
> Here are some fMRI web pages.  I have yet to find a simple "what-is"
> page for fMRI.
>








> Bill
>
> Longitudinal Study: see the 19 May entry in my diary:
>      http://bill.innanen.com/parkinsons/diary200005.shtml
> --
> Bill Innanen                     <mailto: Bill.Innanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>                             <> & <>

Hi Bill,
Good on ya for volunteering for a study....  I have given the Movement Disorder
Group here at least on day every year since diagnosis........

We can make a difference......

Here are a few links re: fMRI... Give you sumpthin' t'do while you're waiting
for Aug. 2nd.  .....  Let us know how it all works out.....

History of fMRI


fMRI Study Info


fMRI Screening Info


fMRI Current Studies


Functional MR Imaging (fMRI)


MRI & fMRI


Brief Introduction to fMRI


fMRI - About Functional MRI (General)


All About Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI)


Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) Med Students


Using fMRI to Study the Brain


Watching the Brain in Action


fMRI Brain Imaging


NIDA  - Teaching Packet - The Brain and the Actions of Cocaine, Opiates, and 
Marijuana


Functional MRI studies of face recognition
and conditional visuo-motor associations


Brain Activity is Visibly Altered


fMRI


Functional MRI Networks - 300+ links



Functional fMRI - Links & Info


The National fMRI Data Center - New


James Wilson - fMRI Research Student


fMRI / MRI / Brain Image Analysis Labs


Other interesting Brain Mapping Sites...




John Hopkins Medical Institutions
Division of Psychiatric Neuro-Imaging




Neuroimaging Links

nks.html

Best regards .......... murray


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