Department:
Radiology
Education:
Ph.D. in Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research Description:
Our laboratory is a systems neuroscience laboratory that is currently aligned three major thematic and interrelated areas of interest: (1) examining the impact of genes, the environment, and gene-environment interactions on quantitative brain microstructure in neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric illness; (2) biological validation and clinical translation of methodological innovations in diffusion weighted MRI for accurate diagnosis and tracking therapeutic outcomes in patient care, clinical trials, and patient-oriented research; and (3) development of MR and PET neuroimaging methods for the sensitive detection and characterization of microglial-driven neuroinflammation and synaptic loss in neurologic and psychiatric illness.
Key Words:
Systems neuroscience, MRI, PET, microscopy