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.
>
http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fmrianalysis/index.html

http://www.fmri.org/

http://128.151.16.162/2nmr.html

http://crl.ucsd.edu/bilingual/fMRI3.html

> Bill
>
> Longitudinal Study: see the 19 May entry in my diary:
>      http://bill.innanen.com/parkinsons/diary200005.shtml
> --
> Bill Innanen                     <mailto: [log in to unmask]>
>                             <http://Bill.Innanen.com> & <http://mni.ms>

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
http://www.ee.duke.edu/~jshorey/MRIHomepage/fmri.html

fMRI Study Info
http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/fmri.html

fMRI Screening Info
http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/screening.html

fMRI Current Studies
http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/ranstudies

Functional MR Imaging (fMRI)
http://www.radiologyresource.org/content/functional_mr.htm

MRI & fMRI
http://teach.bhs.mq.edu.au/~tbates/imaging_techniques/fMRI/MRI_&_fMRI.html

Brief Introduction to fMRI
http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fmri_intro/

fMRI - About Functional MRI (General)
http://www.fmri.org/fmri.htm

All About Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI)
http://www.cmrr.drad.umn.edu/fmri.html

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) Med Students
http://www.medstudents.com.br/original/original/fmri/fmri.htm

Using fMRI to Study the Brain
http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/labs/bbf/fMRI.html

Watching the Brain in Action
http://www.psc.edu/science/goddard.html

fMRI Brain Imaging
http://www.artificialbrains.com/brainscanning/fmri.html

NIDA  - Teaching Packet - The Brain and the Actions of Cocaine, Opiates, and Marijuana
http://165.112.78.61/Teaching/Teaching.html

Functional MRI studies of face recognition
and conditional visuo-motor associations
http://rhea.ujf-grenoble.fr/people/ssimon/

Brain Activity is Visibly Altered
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2000_02_09_Sleep.html

fMRI
http://hendrix.ei.dtu.dk/staff/students/fnielsen/thesis/finn/node16.html

Functional MRI Networks - 300+ links
http://www.duke.edu/~richwarp/
http://www.duke.edu/~richwarp/fmri.html

Functional fMRI - Links & Info
http://www.functionalmri.org/

The National fMRI Data Center - New
http://www.fmridc.org/

James Wilson - fMRI Research Student
http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~wilson/

fMRI / MRI / Brain Image Analysis Labs
http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/resources/labs.html

Other interesting Brain Mapping Sites...
http://porkpie.loni.ucla.edu/BMD_HTML/BrainMapSites.html

http://www.fmri-world.net/

John Hopkins Medical Institutions
Division of Psychiatric Neuro-Imaging
http://pni.med.jhu.edu/
http://www.mri.jhu.edu/
http://www.mri.jhu.edu/main.html

Neuroimaging Links
http://www.neuropsychologycentral.com/interface/content/links/page_material/imaging/imaging_li
nks.html

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


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