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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 [log in to unmask] View the Parkinson's Awareness Links at: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/pienet/wwweb/index.html