Talk by Sylvain Bouix at UNC Psychiatry Department
Location: 7th Fl conference room, Neurosciences Hospital
Tues, Oct 7 at 11:00

Title:
The Schizophrenia Research Project at Harvard Medical School

Abstract:
Research work involving the investigation of brain abnormalities in
schizophrenia has progressed considerably over the past decade largely
due to the improved spatial resolution of MR images and to the new image
processing tools used to extract information from MR scans. Our work has
led us to work on problems involving the coregistration, segmentation
and analysis of multimodal imaging techniques such as MRI, fMRI, and
DTI. Such studies should further our understanding of schizophrenia, a
disorder that not only afflicts just under 1% of the general population,
but which also accounts for the use of more hospital beds than any other
health problem other than diseases associated with aging.