Proton MRS of Human Brain Disease

Room 618 - 620         10:30 - 12:30                 Chairs: Peter B. Barker and Michela Tosetti

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10:30 900.

NAA/Cr Tightly Correlates with Extracellular GABA in Surgically Treated Hippocampal Epilepsy

Jullie W. Pan1, Idil Cavus2, Dennis Spencer2, Hoby Hetherington1

1Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; 2Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
10:42 901.

Brain 1H MRSI and Formal Thought Disorder in Pediatric Complex Partial Epilepsy

Joseph O'Neill1, Jennifer Levitt1, Erin Lanphier1, Caroline Bailey2, S Gurbani3, James Alger4, Rachel Caplan1

1UCLA NPI Child Psychiatry, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2UCLA MRRC, Los Angeles, California, USA; 3UC Irvine Pediatrics, Irvine, California, USA; 4UCLA Neurology, Los Angeles, California, USA
10:54 902.

Thalamic and Hippocampal Dysfunction in TLE Measured by MRS

Hoby Patrick Hetherington1, Ruben I. Kuzniecky2, Kenneth Vives3, Dennis D. Spencer3, Jullie W. Pan1

1Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; 2New York University, New York, New York, USA; 3Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
11:06 903.

Quantitation of Cellular and Biochemical Alterations in Hereditary Ataxias by 1H MRS at 4 Tesla

Gulin Oz1, Isabelle Iltis1, Diane Hutter1, Christopher M. Gomez1

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
11:18 904.

Cerebral Metabolic Abnormalities and Correlations with Cognition in Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorder: A

Preliminary Proton MRS Study

Luminita Alina Tudorica1, Lidia Gabis2, Allen Azizian1, Susan Sclafani1, John Bilski1, Patricia Roche1,

Carla DeVincent1, John Pomeroy1, Wei Huang3

1State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, USA; 2Safra Children's Hospital, Tel Hashomer, Israel; 3Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
11:30 905.

Correlation Between Choline Containing Metabolites and Choline Kinase in Untreated Pediatric Brain Tumors

Deborah E. Schofield1, Ashok Panigrahy2, Mark D. Krieger2, Marvin D. Nelson2, Floyd H. Gilles2, Ignacio Gonzalez-Gomez2, Stefan

Bluml2, 3

1Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; 3Rudi Schulte Reserach Institute, Santa Barbara, California, USA
11:42 906.

Brain Metabolite Changes Detected by MRS in Early Onset Type-1 Diabetes

Robert Mark Wellard1, Debbie Rankin2, Debra Boyce2, Graeme David Jackson1, George Werther2, Elisabeth Northam2

1Brain Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 2Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

11:54 907.

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging is Sensitive to Severity in Traumatic Brain Injury

William M. Brooks1, Sandra B. Hall1, JoAnn Lierman1, Allan L. Schmitt1, Linda R. Ladesich1, Thomas M. Malone1, Robin L.

Aupperle1, Cary R. Savage1

1University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
11:06 908.

Biochemical and Anatomical Characterization of Minimal HE

Albert Michael Thomas1, Nader Binesh2, Rajesh Kumar2, Sherry Liu2, Bhagyashree Sawale2, Amir Huda3, Steven Han2

1University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA; 3California State University, Fresno, California, USA
11:18 909.

Proton MRS at 3 Tesla Reveals Altered Neurochemistry in Smokers

Florian Schubert1, Frank Seifert1, Malek Bajbouj2, Jürgen Gallinat2

1Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany; 2Charite University Medicine, Berlin, Germany