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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Advanced imaging techniques provide more insight into neuropsychiatric disorders
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:02
	Publish Date:		2016-01-27 00:00:00
	Description:		How does the brain of a schizophrenic patient differ, functionally, from others? Researchers at the University of California, San Diego’s Multimodal Imaging Lab are able to use computational modeling and brain imaging methods to investigate neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. For graduate student Chun Chieh Fan working in this lab has been especially enlightening. "I was always interested in how human brain work. Back in my hometown, I’m a psychiatrist. I can only talk; I can only try to understand where the problem come from. I hope with the advance of brain imaging technology, we can actually begin to understand what happened to human’s mind and human’s brain. And with better resolution instead of only talk." Fan recently used the labs imaging techniques to discover that the three-dimensional shape of the cerebral cortex strongly correlates with one’s ancestral background. And this may lead to a more personalized medicine approach for diagnosing and treating brain diseases.
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