Request for Funding

Medical Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2004

Mentor: Dr. Anne Lipton
Department: Neurology
Room number: NC5.232
Mail Code: 9070
Phone number: 214-648-7791
E-mail: anne.lipton@utsouthwestern.edu
Project title: Volumetric morphometry of the hippocampus in Alzheimer's disease

Human subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable): 0484 35000

Project Type: Patient-based research

Brief Description of Project:
Student will be trained on software for volumetric measurements of brain regions of interest. Voxel measurements will be made of the hippocampus in AD and control subjects. Hippocampal volumes will be compared between groups and with regard to biochemical markers and cognitive testing.

Previous Research Activities or Publications with Medical Students:
Tina Lin, Class of 2004, University of North Texas, Research rotation, September 2003

William Keller, 2003 UTSW Summer Research Program

Kimberly Ohman, 2003 UTSW Summer Research Program:
Lipton AM, Ohman KA, Nations SP, Lacritz LH, Wolfe GI. A Case of Frontotemporal Dementia in Primary Lateral Sclerosis. Submitted.
Lipton AM, Ohman KA, Hynan LS, Ninman ET, Lacritz LH, Womack KB. The Frontal Assessment Battery does not differentiate AD from Frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Manuscript in preparation.

Raul Benavides, 2002 UTSW Summer Research Program:
Lipton AM, Benavides R. Neuroimaging shows greater lateralization in autopsy-proven FTD than AD. Platform presentation at the 4th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementias, Lund, Sweden, April 24-26, 2003.

Lipton AM, Benavides R, Hynan LS. Disease duration is shorter in Frontotemporal dementia than in Alzheimer's disease. Neurology 2003;60(S1):A377.

Lipton, AM, Benavides R, Hynan L. Disease duration is shorter in Frontotemporal dementia than in Alzheimer disease. Presented at the Frontotemporal dementia/Pick's Disease Conference, London, Ontario, September 13-15, 2002, and the American Academy of Neurology meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 29-April 5, 2003.

Devi Saha, Class of 2003, New York Medical College, Research rotation, Summer 2000:
Winner, New York Medical College Student Research First Prize

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