Brain Morphometry BIRN (Biomedical Informatics Research Network)

BIRN’s Morphometry Test Bed focuses on pooling and analyzing data across neuroimaging sites for potential relationships between anatomical differences and specific memory dysfunctions, such as depression, mild Alzheimer’s disease, and mild cognitive impairment.

By acquiring and pooling patient data across sites, scientists are analyzing data from a large group of subjects, in order to investigate what structural brain differences correlate to symptoms of memory dysfunction or depression. This line of research has already uncovered new diagnostic differences and is expected to lead to potential therapies.