Radu Mutihac
University of Bucharest, Romania
Title: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the human effective connectome at rest
Biography:
Radu Mutihac is Chair of Medical Physics Section, University of Bucharest, and works in Neuroscience, Signal Processing, Microelectronics, and Artificial Intelligence.
Abstract:
Alzheimer’s disease is a disease associated with neurodegenerative nature. We look for this disease in depth and think that functional alterations in white matter precede the clinical onset of Alzheimer’s disease. As it were, it involves cerebrum maturing that happen by years (might be 5 years) before Alzheimer's infection had been created. This period is characterized by depression, which partly may be due to memory declining episodes. It was interestingly found that patients with diabetes are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. We have found using experimental animal models that rats with diabetes exhibited functional abnormalities in white matter.