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Clinical Aging Medicine Lab (Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer)
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A lab that explores the relationship between lifestyle and the brain using brain MRI images.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the link between lifestyle and the brain through brain imaging
The Clinical Aging Medicine lab is a division of the brain science research department at the Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, and it also runs a clinical department, Geriatrics and Gerontology, at Tohoku University Hospital.
The lab collects MRI images of the brains of many healthy people and conducts research using a brain imaging database.
It investigates how environmental factors such as lifestyle and genetic factors affect the shape and function of the brain and cognitive ability.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name “Taki Lab / Geriatrics and Gerontology.”
Key terms
- MRI
- Magnetic resonance imaging. This lab collects brain MRI scans from many healthy people and uses them in its research
- Brain imaging database
- A collection of brain MRI scans from many people across a wide range of ages, combined with data on lifestyle, cognitive ability, and genes
- Geriatrics and Gerontology
- A clinical department at Tohoku University Hospital, which this research division also runs
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to clarify how environmental factors such as lifestyle and genetic factors affect the shape and function of the brain and cognitive ability. To this end, it conducts research using a brain MRI database and also works on image analysis research using AI.
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MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYasuyuki Taki
- Associate ProfessorTaizen Nakase
- LecturerYasuko Tatewaki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Brain MRI 0145 02” Nevit Dilmen (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Brain MRI Database and Lifestyle: “PET MRI Scanner (NIH BioArt )” Courtesy of NIAID Malcolm Houston / Public domain (cropped)
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