Osaka University, Hitachi Jointly Succeed in Obtaining Brain Activity Images Using Optical Topography.Tokyo, Japan, July 19, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - On July 15, Osaka University and the Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory jointly announced that they have succeeded in obtaining the images of a person's brain activity after he consumes alcohol. Using an optical topography, the industry-academia research group has observed changes in the brain activity triggered by acetaldehyde acetaldehyde (ăs'ĭtăl`dəhīd) or ethanal (ĕth`ənăl'), CH3CHO, colorless liquid aldehyde, sometimes simply called aldehyde. It melts at −123°C;, boils at 20. , a metabolite, and confirmed that changes in the amount of cerebral blood flow Cerebral blood flow, or CBF, is the blood supply to the brain in a given time.[1] In an adult, CBF is 750 mls/min or 15% of the cardiac output. On a weight basis, this is 50 to 54 milllitres/100grams/minute. against visual stimuli differ depending on gene types of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH ALDH Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 2). Further, the group has concluded that, with those who have low-active ALDH2, an intake of alcohol tends to increase the acetaldehyde concentration in the body and affect the brain activity and body. Details of this discovery will be published in US scientific magazine Psychiatry Research (Vol. 139, Issue 1). Source: JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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