▶ Obesity

Obesity is a worldwide medical problem that is responsible for inducing insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and some cancers. Obesity is a multi-factorial disease that affected by environmental, genetic, and behavioral factors. Especially, the behavioral factor is highly associated with altered brain structure and function. Thus, investigating the brain of people with obesity using state-of-the-art neuroimaging analysis techniques might provide complementary information for obesity.

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▶ Neurodevelopment

Neurodevelopment is important for overall maturation in cognitive and educational functions and brain health more generally. Understanding how the brain network organization changes during development provide mechanistic insights into maturational processes, their biological underpinnings, and their effects on behavior and cognition. As such, we study typical and atypical neurodevelopmental processes. In particular, autism is a persistent neurodevelopmental condition showing atypical sensory processing and deficits in high-level cognitive and social functions.  Autism patients show idiosyncratic functional connectivity patterns in sensorimotor and default-mode networks and perturbed functional hierarchy in those networks. Understanding how structural and functional alterations in autism may consolidate the diverse behavioral phenotype and identify pathological mechanisms of autism.

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▶ Migraine

Migraine is a neurological disorder affecting ~20% of people worldwide. While it is believed that migraine is a benign disease, the risk of stroke, cardiovascular diseases, and death is increased in migraineurs. Investigating how the brain structure and function differ from healthy controls would be the first step to suggest treatment plans of migraines. The next step is identifying the cause of why the brain alterations occurred. Quantitative neuroimaging analysis techniques can help to achieve these goals.

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