CCB 2009 National Youth Leadership Forum Visit to CCB/LONI

Logistics

• Host: IvoDinov
• Date: Thu., 06/25/09
• Time: 10:00AM - 11:00 AM
• Place: CCB/LONI, DIVE, 635 Young Dr. South, NRB 225, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7334
• Tel: 310-206-2101
• Fax: USA + 310-206-5518
• URL: http://www.loni.ucla.edu/twiki/bin/view/CCB/CCB_Meetings_NYLF2009

Agenda

• IvoDinov: Math, Computers & the Brain
  • Welcome
  • LONI Reel Animation
  • Computational Math (PPT)
    • Digital data representation: Demo Police Siren Audio Frequencies, Parametric Modeling, Wavelets, Tensors, Pipeline
    • Mathematical Modeling
    • Statistical Analysis
  • Atlasing: An atlas of the brain allows us to define its spatial characteristics. Where is a given structure; relative to what other features; what are its shape and characteristics and how do we refer to it? Play movies
  • Alzheimer's Disease: Investigating structural, functional, metabolic and pathological changes triggered by Alzheimer's disease. Play movies
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Vishal Patel
  • Slides
• RicoMagsipoc: Hardware & Data Center

Materials

• CCB Brochure (Brain facts) (and their answers)
• Pinky & the Brain's neuroanatomy song
  • Lyrics

Verse 1: 

Neocortex, frontal lobe, 
Brain stem, brain stem, 
Hippocampus, neural node, 
Right hemisphere, 
Pons and cortex visual, 
Brain stem, brain stem, 
Sylvian fissure, pineal, 
Left hemisphere, 
Cerebellum left, cerebellum right, 
Synapse, hypothalamus, 
Striatum, dendrite. 

Verse 2: 

Axon fibres, matter gray, 
Brain stem, brain stem, 
Central tegmental pathway, 
Temporal lobe, 
White ---?--- matter, forebrain, skull, 
Brain stem, brain stem, 
Central fissure, cord spinal, 
Par-ie-tal, 
Pia mater, meningeal vein, 
Medulla oblongata and lobe limbic, 
Microelectrodes, 
The brain!