Y. Huang's research while affiliated with Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and other places

... In aggiunta al ruolo nell'elaborazione degli stimoli musicali con valenza emotiva (Altenmüller et al. 2014), è possibile anche riconoscere nei musicisti professionisti una differenza cerebellare rispetto agli individui senza formazione musicale. Lo studio con magnetoencefalografia (MEG) di Schneider e colleghi (2002), ad esempio, ha rilevato delle configurazioni peculiari nel cervello dei musicisti, osservando una correlazione dell'attivazione della corteccia uditiva primaria e del volume della materia grigia della porzione anteromediale del giro di Heschl con l'attitudine «Illuminazioni» (ISSN: 2037-609X), n. 64, aprile-giugno 2023 91 musicale; sono stati riscontrati, inoltre, incrementi a carico del corpo calloso (Schlaug et al. 1995) e della corteccia motoria (Stewart 2008). In aggiunta a tali differenze, il ruolo del cervelletto nei musicisti e, in particolare, nella relativa expertise, è stato investigato da diversi studi. ...

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Oltre il movimento: il contributo cerebellare alle funzioni linguistiche e cognitive

... If at all avoidable, presumed homogeneous distributions should not be included in any attempts at modelling (and thus, correcting) the PET signal. For practical purposes, however, homogeneity assumptions are adopted in different forms by [11] for PET correction and deconvolution, and [12] for PET simulation (a process applied to [13] and [14]). Improving the assumptions requires a better knowledge of the emission source, where it is very difficult to avoid generalisations. ...

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Better Anatomical Priors for PET Reconstruction

... First, the MR-derived scalp surface is fitted to the PET transmission scan of the same subject. This is achieved by using a least square surface fitting algorithm which was originally designed for individual PETIMR integration [1]. ...

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Accurate Alignment and Reslicing of PET Images

... Using 3-D medical software package (CyberMed, Korea) used in a previous study (19), brain tissue on the MR images were separated from non-brain tissue (skull and meninges) for whole brain and cerebellar volumetric measurement. Threshold and region-growing technique were applied to generate a new image, representing brain without any scalp and skull (20,21). Manual tracing was used to eliminate any remaining meninges. ...

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Evaluation of Morphological Plasticity in the Cerebella of Basketball Players with MRI

... Perhaps, Oliver Sacks was right in noting that the gift of absolute hearing might differ from "normal 951 talents" by being a "savant talent"-a precocious ability to process complex tasks in "functional isolation" 952 from conceptual, verbal and even general musical powers, independent of training and practicing music 953 (Sacks 1995). In this respect, absolute pitch might be the backbone of the "savant syndrome" that affects 954 many extremely talented musicians who display signs of "low-functioning autism" (Sacks 2008). ...

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Emergence of the distinction between "verbal" and "musical" in early childhood development.

... Affen (Nudo et al. 1992. Unterstützt werden diese Befunde von bildgebenden Untersuchungen des Menschen bei langsam wachsenden Hirntumoren des präzentralen Gyrus, subkortikalen Läsionen des motorischen efferenten Systems und Erkrankungen der motorischen Neurone, bei denen der Nachweis abnormal lokalisierter Aktivierungen innerhalb des präzentralen Gyrus als Ausdruck der stattgehabten Reorganisation gelang (Wunderlich et al. 1996, Kew et al. 1993, Rijntes et al. 1997 (Bütefisch et al. 1995 Hirninfarkt. Patienten, die ein mentales Trainingsprogramm mit "motor imagery" erhielten, zeigten eine deutliche Verbesserung im Ablauf von Greifbewegungen der paretischen Extremität (Miltner et al. 1999). ...

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Postischämische Plastizität des motorischen Systems [Elektronische Ressource] : eine positronen-emissions-tomografische Untersuchung bei Hirninfarktpatienten /

... Using interhemispheric asymmetry ratios, Breier et al. [9] reported effects of duration of epilepsy on the whole temporal lobe glucose metabolism and blood flow. Although hemispheric asymmetry indices of hippocampal volume and glucose metabolism are positively correlated [14], glucose metabolism does not depend linearly on hippocampal volume [1,41]. Therefore it is of interest to know whether the duration of TLE affects these measures. ...

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Bilateral reductions of hippocampal volume, glucose metabolism, and Wada hemispheric memory performance are related to the duration of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

... The same values were obtained by Gjedde et al. (1980) in rats. The lower values found in mixed tissue can be explained by the effect of applying a single compartment model to heterogenous tissue (Iida et al., 1989;Lammertsma et al., 1990;Herzog et al., 1993). ...

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Quantitation of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow with 15O-Butanol and Positron Emission Tomography in Humans

... The present study did not find significant differences in the length, height, and surface area of the isthmi between males and females. However, Steinmetz and co-authors [37] found that females have a larger proportional isthmus segment of the CC. This may reflect a sex-specific difference in the inter-hemispheric connectivity and functional organization of the temporoparietal association cortex [37]. ...

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Isthmus of the corpus callosum -An anatomical investigation

... Given the unsatisfactory effects of conventional drug therapy on clinical symptoms and the lack of more effective individualized therapeutic methods, elucidating the neural mechanisms underlying these syndromes is crucial for developing more effective and targeted treatments [Bogousslavsky et al., 1988;Hosomi et al., 2015;Klit et al., 2009;Wu et al., 2019;Chen Ye et al., 2022]. Advanced neuroimaging techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) [Bonkhoff et al., 2020[Bonkhoff et al., , 2021He et al., 2021;Salvalaggio et al., 2020;Wang et al., 2021], diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) Jang et al., 2019;Li et al., 2011;Nemati et al., 2022] and positron emission tomography (PET) [Dieterich et al., 2005;Dieterich & Brandt, 2008;Kopelman, 2015;Rudolphi-Solero et al., 2022;Stenset et al., 2007;Weder et al., 1994;Willoch et al., 2004], have made important contributions to our understanding of these mechanisms. Thalamic infarction can lead to structural and functional changes in the brain, including altered white matter integrity [Chuo Li, 2011;Krause et al., 2012], cortical reorganization [He et al., 2021;Krause et al., 2014;Wang et al., 2021], and even brain network dysfunction [Favaretto et al., 2022;He et al., 2021;Hosomi et al., 2015;Wang et al., 2021]. ...

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Improving the understanding of neural mechanisms and guiding targeted therapy for clinical syndrome after thalamic infarction with advanced neuroimaging