[BIC-announce] FW: RE : talk at UdM about brain states in cognition, Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Jennifer Chew, Ms.
jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca
Tue Mar 19 11:50:15 EDT 2013
For your information.
SEMINAR
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: Amphitheatre Le Groupe Maurice
CRIUGM (Centre de recherché Institut universitaire de geriatrie de Mtl)
4565 Queen Mary Road
SPEAKER: Prof. Istvan Akos Morocz, Harvard Medical School, Boston
TITLE OF SEMINAR: Monitoring Cognitive Integrity
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Monitoring Cognitive Integrity
The clinical implication of a brain mapping technique that quantitatively captures complex cognitive processes in humans could be immense. However, there are, as of today, no robust tools that suit this purpose. Simple paper/pencil tests still often have more predictive power than conventional brain mapping regarding therapeutic decisions upon follow-up studies. The problem is conceptual as both data acquisition and analysis are inaptly designed for the complex nature of neural processes. The traditional uni-dimensional analysis approach is robust in the statistical sense but the resulting simplistic activity maps relate too vaguely to the true temporo-spatial nature of aberrant functional trajectories that pathological thought processes consist of. Recent publications imply that pattern-recognizing brain-states analyses compute meaningful functional models that may suit especially the longitudinal comparison of data. New results in computing holistic state space models (SSM) in subjects afflicted with a developmental learning disability like dyslexia or dyscalculia or with schizophrenia are truly promising.
More information about the BIC-announce
mailing list