نبذة مختصرة : Richard Frackowiak founded the influential Wellcome Department of Imaging Neurosciences’ Functional Imaging Laboratory at the Institute of Neurology in 1994. A clinician by training he has investigated the physiology of normal and diseased human brains with positron emission tomography (PET) and subsequently magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and he established the quantitative steady-state method for measuring human cerebral blood flow and oxygen extraction. He has investigated the pathophysiology of dementia; the evolution of acute cerebral ischemia; demonstrated that foetal cell implants for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease become functional, and has pioneered investigation of plastic mechanisms that underpin recovery after brain injury. He has shown that scanning pre-symptomatically may provide a reliable bio-marker of neurodegeneration associated with ageing. ; Supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant (2006-2008) in the History of Medicine to Professor Tilli Tansey (QMUL) and Professor Leslie Iversen (Oxford), this project recorded interviews with 12 prominent neuroscientists, between 2006 and 2008.
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