Performance and development are based on hard work, experience and learning. Learning how to change different behaviors is crucial to successful talent management plans. Within the brain there are complex connected circuits that can identify threats. The brain reacts to change as a threat. There is also a collection of brain structures tied to a natural reward system that are involved in the re...

The blood brain barrier plays an important role in traumatic brain injury, serving at the crossroads of secondary injury and potential therapies. In regards to trauma, this barrier contains an array of cellular and molecular components that protect the central nervous system from derangements in water homeostasis and inflammation. Preclinical and clinical assays have been developed to describe ...

Institute of Medical Physics, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China This work is to replace PET ring in human brain PET/MR system with a dedicated wearable PET insert, aimed at improving both patient feasibility and system performance for brain imaging. The designed PET/MR system includes two parts: the inside parts, including a radio frequency (RF) coil and PET...

this talk will introduce the idea that talent development is related to learning where learning is the physiological process of neuro-plastic changes in the brain. to develop talents, individuals must move from novice or beginner’s status to expertise levels of knowledge or skills in a particular domain. learning depends on maximizing an individual’s potential through the experiences he or she ...

the most important risk factors for anxiety disorders include genes, early life stress, and current stress. these factors do not act independently but interact with each other throughout human development through examples such as epigenetic modifications and complex forms of learning. the neural substrate of pathological anxiety includes hyperactivity in the amygdala and other limbic brain regi...

background: imaging studies performed in research centers suggest a high prevalence of brain structural abnormalities in patients with epilepsy. however, the results of research studies may not be directly applicable to general clinic, because they may perform on patients with high probability of cerebral abnormalities. on the other hand, more advanced modalities are likely to be used in resear...

Objective(s): Erythropoietin (EPO), is a 34KDa glycoprotein hormone, which belongs to type 1 cytokine superfamily. EPO involves in erythrocyte maturation through inhibition of apoptosis in erythroid cells. Besides its main function, protective effects of EPO in heart and brain tissues have been reported. EPO has a critical role in development, growth, and homeostasis of brain. Furthermore EPO h...