— Neuroanatomy of Autism — This article can be found at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18258309 sMRI Pathological / abnormal regions in ASD: frontal lobes, amygdala and cerebellum time course of brain development, not final product, is most disturbed in autism (so age is a salient factor, and we would... Read more
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— Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) — Maximum Likelihood Estimation is a technique that we use to estimate the parameters for some statistical model. For example, let’s say that we have a truckload of oatmeal raisin cookies, and we think that we can predict the number of... Read more
— Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) — Sometimes, things are exactly what they seem. This is one of those cases The signal to noise ratio (SNR) is a metric that is used in MRI to describe how much of a signal is noise, and how much is... Read more
— Partial Volume Effect — Partial Volume Effect in medical imaging speaks to the idea that we may not detect signal in small volumes or regions when our resolution is limited. If you are a researcher that is totally crazy about the amygdala, for example,... Read more