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BU neuroscientist Vasileios Zikopoulos and colleagues are creating a digital brain to better understand the organ\u2019s activity and disorders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


HUGO JAVIER APARICIO<\/b><\/span><\/a>, an assistant professor of neurology, is researching how brain diseases may uniquely affect people of color, various sexes, genders, ethnicities, and\/or cultural backgrounds, with the goal of developing personalized prevention methods.<\/p>\n

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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry AUDREYANA JAGGER-RICKELS<\/strong><\/a>, in a study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders,<\/i> has identified a marker in the brains of veterans who have a history of suicide attempts. It connects areas that regulate cognitive control and self-referential processing. This discovery could prove essential in assessing suicide risk, even before an attempt is made.<\/p>\n

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SMRITHI SUNIL<\/b><\/span><\/a>(ENG’21,’21), a former doctoral student at BU\u2019s NEUROPHOTONICS CENTER<\/b><\/span><\/a>, and ANNA DEVOR<\/b><\/span><\/a>, a professor of biomedical engineering, published an NIH-funded study in Neuroimaging <\/i>in March 2023 examining the relationship between neural activity and cerebral blood flow after a stroke. Their findings indicate that neuroimaging could inform individualized treatment techniques and improve recovery.<\/p>\n

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VASILEIOS ZIKOPOULOS<\/b><\/span><\/a>, director of the HUMAN SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE LABORATORY<\/b><\/span><\/a>; <\/b>HELEN BARBAS<\/b><\/span><\/a>, professor of health sciences; and ARASH YAZDANBAKHSH<\/b><\/span><\/a> <\/b><\/span>(GRS\u201905), director of the <\/b>COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE & VISION LABORATORY<\/b><\/span><\/a>, are building a digital brain that can simulate human brain activity, helping us understand which cortical mechanisms affect various disorders, including autism.<\/p>\n

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JAMES TRANIELLO<\/b><\/span><\/a> (CAS\u201974), a professor of biology, studies more than 30 different species of ants\u2019 brains. By identifying variations in their \u201cmushroom bodies\u201d (the insect-brain equivalent of the mammalian cortex), Traniello is uncovering how differing cognitive demands may affect ants\u2019 learning, memory, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HUGO JAVIER APARICIO, an assistant professor of neurology, is researching how brain diseases may uniquely affect people of color, various sexes, genders, ethnicities, and\/or cultural backgrounds, with the goal of developing personalized prevention methods. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry AUDREYANA JAGGER-RICKELS, in a study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, has identified a marker in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12906,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/741"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}