Clinical Neuroscience Group
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These days, the recent advances in medicine and neuroscience, have pushed our clinical approaches from a pure anatomic vision to a more combined anatomical and functional manner in a variety of medical conditions and diseases.
Distinct physiologic and pathologic conditions are directly or even indirectly influenced by the brain’s activity in a variety of settings; From the intact cognitive function in calculation, driving and other excellent brain activities to impaired neuronal activity in diseases such as Dementia, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease and so on.
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 Studying this functional state of the Whole brain and its distinct regions is one of the hottest topics in clinical neuroscience.
Although many neuroimaging and neurophysiologic studies like Computed Tomography Scanning (CT Scanning), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Electroencephalography (EEG) are widely available worldwide, newer function-based technologies like Functional Magnetic Resonance imaging (fMRI), Magnetic Electroencephalography (MEG) and Functional near-infrared-spectroscopy (fNIRS), are the most pioneer modalities these days. |
In the Clinical Neuroscience Group, we are working on the clinical use of fMRI in studying normal brain activity during cognitive tasks and also investigating its use in early diagnosis and precise prediction of many diseases. |
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Our present focus is on two various subjects:
- The Clinical Utility of fMRI in studying brain regions’ activity during higher cortical and subcortical activities like driving to distinguish the neural circuits that are involved in and are prone to be influenced by the impact of different mood types and distractive stimuli.
- The clinical application of fMRI in studying Multiple Sclerosis and also Dementia to achieve an early diagnostic approach and further utilization of this method in following up the disease progression in affected human beings.
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Group Leader
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Omid Abbaszadeh is a research physician and has earned his MD degree from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran in 2015. His medical and research background is strongly tied to the field of neuroscience with a special focus on neuroimmunology and Multiple sclerosis. He is currently a senior researcher at Neuroscience Research Center and also serves as a Clinical Research Methodology Consult at Research Development and Coordination Center (RDCC) in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.
Although it looks complicated, merging the Medicine and engineering is so delightful! It is very tasty!
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