Author Interviews, Medical Imaging, Mental Health Research, UCSD / 13.05.2019
Combat-Related Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Magnetoencephalography Can Detect Abnormal Gamma Band
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Dr. Mingxiong Huang, PhD
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Combat-related mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a leading cause of sustained impairments in military service members and Veterans. Yet, conventional neuroimaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) are typically insensitive to physiological alterations caused by mild and some moderate TBIs.
With funding from the VA, we have pursued in developing sensitive imaging markers based on magnetoencephalography (MEG) for mTBI. This paper reflects the news MEG findings in this research field. (more…)