Imaging and EEGS

Question 1

Adults who learn a 2nd language will have 2 language centers showing on fmRI, but children with 2 languages have?

Answer 1

A single language center

Question 2

What is a voxel-based analaysis?

Answer 2

Method of analyzing MRI data by changing individual brain scans into standard volume, shape, and spatial orientation to allow for superimposing patient data onto one another.

Question 3

What information about schizophrenia is provided by diffusion tensor imaging?

Answer 3

Orientation and integrity of white matter tracts.

Question 4

Concentration of what metabolite is a marker for structural integrity on MRI?

Answer 4

Choline

Question 5

What imaging is best to examine the distribution of the brain’s D1 receptors in children with OCD?

Answer 5

PET scan

Question 6

What imaging techniques measures perfusion and oxygenation in cortical grey matter?

Answer 6

fMRI

Question 7

Neuronal functioning is detected by distribution and concentration of which metabolite in magnetic resonance spectroscopy?

Answer 7

N-acetyl aspartate

Question 8

What information can EEG scalp electrodes give about pyramidal cells?

Answer 8

Summation of potentials