Neonatal Brain Image Analysis

A common teratogen that causes problems in pregnancy is the use of methamphetamine, a stimulant that affects a person’s central nervous system, by the potential father or mother. Research on methamphetamine abuse among pregnant women is in progress and has been for several years, but the exact effects of prenatal exposure to this drug are still actually limited. It is common for a child of a mother who used meth during pregnancy to have brain development problems. The National Institute on Drug Abuse(NIDA), (2013) informs us that there have been only small samples of pregnant women researched for only using methamphetamine, therefore, the results are limited to knowing that “neurobehavioral problems such

This article was rather interesting to me, especially after reading the previous article about pink brain blue brain. The conditioning of young children does seem to dictate gender roles within society. I hadn’t realized just how often these roles appear throughout the media. I never had given commercials or even books a second thought when seeing boys play with gooey science kits and girls play with easy bake ovens. I have previously studied the princess phenomenon, which is also at times referred to as a “Cinderella complex”. Girls continue to watch the same films that generations of young children have and continue to still watch today. This type of conditioning does pose a negative threat as boys are expected to act “manly” while women

The human brain consists of billions of neurons (nerve cells) and develops rapidly during early childhood. These nerve cells send electrochemical signals to each other to form the brains essential functions of language, communication, learning, memory, movement, thinking, and problem-solving. This essay will explore the changes in children’s behaviour from early childhood to adolescence as the brain develops.

This website basically is about the baby brain map. This website gives a very explanation about the conception of a baby brain. I learned great information that parents also need to know, I didn’t know that the development of the brain begins with in a week of the conception in another word at the prenatal development. This website confirms my concern that I always had about babies, I always had the conviction that when a cry of a baby is the only way he is trying to communicate. And was effective and the website confirmed it that crying is the way babies communicate their feelings and needs.

Hydrocephaly-MASA Spectrum is the most common XLID syndrome with a structural malformation of the central nervous system. Isolation of mutations in L1CAM has allowed inclusion of four entities that were previously thought to be separate entities in the spectrum; these include X-linked hydrocephaly, MASA syndrome, XLID-clasp thumb and complicated spastic paraplegia (Stevenson RE., 2013). Hypotonia is usually present initially and replaced by spasticity in the late childhood. Interestingly, the degree of intellectual development of these individuals appears to be correlated with the severity of hydrocephaly.

The inception of baby scan technology has made possible for the doctors to examine the gradual development of the unborn baby. Different types of tests are performed during the gestation period. Sexing, confirmation, 3-D, and 4-D are few of them. These scans are non-invasive, safe, painless, and do not involve the use of surgical instruments.

MRI has been increasingly used for detailed imagining of the fetus in utero as well as pregnancy structures (Saleem, 2014).However, fetal MRI study may give limited diagnostic information in early gestational age due to the small size of the fetus and fetal movement (Saleem, 2014). Fetal MRI needs to use fast sequences due to moving fetus. Single-shot fast spin-echo (SSFSE) T2-weighted imaging is a basic sequence to visualized fetal structures such as the brain and vessels (Saleem 2014). T1-weighted sequences are mainly used to determine fat, calcification and hemorrhage. Some advanced imaging could be used to gain more information about brain malfunction such as; Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), diffusion tensor imaging

My baby photographer studio was once again filled with the delightful presence of a tiny, curly newborn. This time, it was tiny Emma who was born on February 24th. She was 7 days new at the time of her photo session with me. At birth, she weighed 7 pounds 8 ounces and measured 20 inches.

I enjoyed Sarah-Jayne Blakemore video “The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain.” What was interesting to me was how the girl’s grey matter volume in the peak of the prefrontal cortex of the brain happens earlier than the boys. The brain is an amazing organ. I found it to be funny, yet interesting when Michael missed a goal how he and the fans all put their hands on their head to express their disbelief or that oh my goodness moment if you will. And when you take a look at the other team fans everyone hands is up; expressing happiness that the goal was missed. As the video continues Ms. Blakemore goes on to talk about the limbic system. The limbic system is fascinating. As it depicts how one is feeling. The limbic system also plays a

Every semester we roughly have two trainings where all the volunteers come together to hear a speaker from a local organization come and talk to us, then after we do a small debrief. On November 10th our speaker was representing a child care organization (cannot remember organization name). She started off her presentation speaking about a child’s brain and its different areas. To make it more engaging and fun she had us color these sections of the brain with different colors. After that she did a children reading demonstration, where we were going to be the audience. I want to note that before she began reading she asked us to think and act as a 3-5 year old. When she was reading to us she would ask us questions and we would then easily answer

Even as a young child I had an unrestrained curiosity about life. Largely due to the environment I grew up in, my concern for the world around me grew proportionally to the amount of exposure to it I experienced. My parents had a patience for the myriad of daily inquiries I presented about seemingly everything. "Why do people drive cars? Why do they drive that car? Where do cars come from? Where do people come from?" I would ask as my developing 5 year- old brain would analyze the passing world outside of the car window en route to a family grocery store trip. As always, my parents would calmly wait for the slew of questions to reside until they formulate a manner to disclose the answers to such questions in terms of a 5 year- old vocabulary. Not being an easy accomplishment, they handled such high eagerness to learn without annoyance. They treated my young brain with delicacy only representative of their understanding of the importance of asking of such questions. This cycle continued for the duration of my upbringing.

The newborn brain MRI (Magnetic Resonance Image) tissue segmentation plays a vital part in studying early brain development in health and disease. In the newborn stage (approximately less than 28 days old), in both T1 and T2 MR Images similar levels of intensity are exhibited by WM and GM, making the tissue segmentation very challenging. In this newborn stage for tissue segmentation only a small number of existing methods have been designed. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid atlas-free hierarchical graph based segmentation method for neonate stage brain tissues using MR images. Wavelet Filter Banks are a type of deep models in which alternatingly on the raw input images filters and local neighborhood pooling operations are applied for

To quantify the electric field spread and penetration, Table I shows the percentage of volume of each brain tissue where the amplitude of E is greater than 50% of the peak of E in the cortex for each coil configuration. Due to the fact that different field distributions occur in the right and the left hemisphere of the brain tissues, percentage of volume of each brain tissue was calculated for both sides of the brain for HFA and HDA coils (double-cone and Halo coils are symmetric coils). HFA_R and HDA_R refer to the percentage of volume of each brain tissue in the right side using the HFA and HDA coils, respectively. HFA_L and HDA_L refer to the percentage of volume of each brain tissue in the left side using the HFA and HDA coils, respectively.

What is something that controls you without your consent? The brain is something that could control everything you do, even if you’re not subconsciously thinking about it. This paper will present to you the current research on the topic of personalities from the article “Your Personality Is Linked To The Actual Shape Of Your Brain” from the website “Psychology Today” in a thematic manner. Personalities are split up into 5 main traits: extraversion/introversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. Some scientists believe that your personality depends upon your brain’s functioning and structure, but is debated in the community. Although the claim seems reasonable, a bias may be present due to the fact that the article

Intensity inhomogeneity correction is often a necessary preprocessing step enabling better Newborn MRI image segmentation. On the other hand, correct segmentation makes intensity inhomogeneity correction rather trivial. Intensity inhomogeneity correction and segmentation can thus be viewed upon as two intertwined procedures. Newborn brain MRI exhibit higher intensity variability for each tissue and low intensity contrast compared to adult brain MRI. These two factors severely hamper the estimation of intensity