J.B. Poline
(UC Berkeley, Neurospin, Gif sur Yvette, France)
Imaging Genetics: Biostatistical Challenges
Date: 27/04/2012
Description:
In this talk, I will describe some bioinformatics and statistical challenges faced by new neuroimaging genetics studies that search through a very high number of associations between brain regions and genetic variations. I will review some current solutions proposed in the literature and show how multivariate techniques associated with variable selection can yield significant results when massive univariate analyses do not.
Moriah Thomason
(Wayne State University)
Dynamics of Human Functional Brain Development In Vivo In Utero
Date: 15/03/2012
Description:
The fetal period is characterized by critical periods of cellular proliferation, differentiation and maturational steps that dictate structural and functional changes in cells, tissues and organ systems. The goal of this proposed research begins with the proposition that to understand maladaptive patterns of fetal functional neural connectivity, we must first characterize FC in representative pregnancies. The present study specifically sought to test for the presence of the default mode network (DMN) in the human fetal brain.