Development of functional and structural brain alterations in logitudinal models of high alcohol consumption and abstinence

Alterations in brain structure and function have been repeatedly reported for a number of neurologic and psychiatric conditions using non-invasive imaging measures. However, the extent to which these techniques can longitudinally follow the evolution of a pathological state, and its treatment, is not clear. We hypothesize that sensing the microstructural properties of brain parenchyma with multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and combining the extracted features with machine learning classifiers, might provide a strong analytical framework to identify states in brain pathologies.
Source: Alcohol - Category: Addiction Authors: Source Type: research