russpoldrack

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   by russpoldrack 11y ago

   I had peripheral nerve stimulation nearly every time I did the diffusion weighted scans, but for me too it wasn't bad enough to stop the scan
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   by russpoldrack 11y ago

   There has been a lot of work looking at bioeffects of MRI in nonhuman animal models. We looked at this work before we started the study, and were convinced that there was no reason to be concerned about bioeffects at the levels of exposure
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   by russpoldrack 11y ago

   There is a lot of ongoing work looking at very-low-field MRI using SQUIDs, but it's doubtful that it will work for functional imaging at any point in the near future.
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   by russpoldrack 11y ago

   no MRS data, alas. there is a lot of interesting stuff in the metabolic and RNA-seq data. metabolomics was mostly related to food and sleep, whereas gene expression was related to psoriasis severity and brain connectivity. Hard to know wh
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   by russpoldrack 11y ago

   other people have definitely spent more time in a scanner than I have - what's different about this study is how systematic we were, and all of the other things we recorded
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   by russpoldrack 11y ago

   would be happy to - I talked about it a few years ago at a QS meetup in Austin when we were just starting
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   by russpoldrack 11y ago

   Thanks for the interest in the study (I'm the first author/experimental subject). I seem to have survived with no lasting effects - at least small pieces of metal are no longer clinging to me :-)