Medical School
Twin Cities
The Health and Emotions in Adolescents: Research and Trajectories (HEART) lab researches emotional disorders in adolescents using fMRI and real-time fMRI. The lab's primary study is focused on adolescents with major depression and adolescents with depression and a history of suicide attempt, with an enrolled total of minimum 110 participants. All of the these studies use fMRI tasks that focus on self concepts in order to illicit neurological pathways of self-processing. Group analyses are then run to examine the differences in self-processing in relation to emotional disorders. In addition to fMRI tasks, the researchers collect a structural MRI scan and a diffusion tensor imaging scan for each participant.
This group is also conducting cutting-edge research with real-time fMRI and are collaborating with MSI staff to process the data in a cost-effective and user-friendly fashion.