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Studie zur Klärung von zerebralen metabolischen und mikrostrukturellen Alterationen im humanen alternden Gehirn und in Patienten mittels einer innovativen Ganzhirn-1H- Magnetresonanzspektroskopie-Technik in Kombination mit quantitativer Magnetresonanztomographie

Fachliche Zuordnung Klinische Neurologie; Neurochirurgie und Neuroradiologie
Kognitive und systemische Humanneurowissenschaften
Förderung Förderung von 2014 bis 2022
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 263370457
 
Erstellungsjahr 2022

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

With is project we have successfully studied healthy aging human brain as well as patients with neurodegenerative or mental orders by use of an innovative whole brain 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopic technique, which enables simultaneously determination of brain metabolites over multiple large or small specific brain structures, in combination with quantitative magnetic resonance imaging that could be used to determine brain tissue relaxation, curtail thickness, and subcortical gray matter volumes. Our studies on healthy volunteers demonstrated that, normal aging has influences on brain metabolism, brain microstructures, and neuronal volume of healthy human brain, with associated measurable changes in brain metabolite concentrations, tissue relaxation times, cortical thickness and subcortical gray matter volumes. These measurable parameters, determined either global over the whole brain or over each brain lobe and cerebellum, as well as in multiple specific small brain regions, could be used as useful biomarkers to quantify aging effects on healthy human brain. Moreover, our studies on patients with neurodegenerative or mental disorders showed that, these measurable parameters could also be used as useful biomarkers to sensitively detect neurodegenerative or mental diseaserelated brain pathological alterations in patients, with the derived values from our studies on healthy subjects (healthy data-collection) being used as reference data. Encouraged by success of this project and based on the obtained results, we have proposed a following project with the title “Investigation of brain metabolic changes in Patients with Parkinson disease and with Major Depressive Disorder with whole brain magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging and creation of basic construction for brain metabolic radiomics”, by aiming to improve the early recognition and diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases and mental disorders.

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