3 Questions with Ronnie | CB3

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Chancellor Ronnie Green poses three questions to Cary Savage, director of the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior (CB3)

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[00:00:04.310]So Cary, how unique are your clinical
[00:00:07.190]and research partnerships
[00:00:08.530]with say an organization like Husker Athletics?
[00:00:11.390]In some ways we're obviously unique
[00:00:12.690]because we have a 30,000 foot brain imaging center
[00:00:15.310]built into the football stadium.
[00:00:16.640]So that's very unique,
[00:00:18.100]but what's really unique is the nature
[00:00:19.350]of our collaborative relationship with athletics,
[00:00:21.580]where we scan every Husker football player
[00:00:23.950]and female soccer player
[00:00:24.888]with MRI when they come in on campus,
[00:00:27.930]and then we follow them throughout the seasons.
[00:00:29.850]If they are diagnosed with a concussion,
[00:00:31.210]we get them back in and scan them again.
[00:00:33.000]And then again on recovery.
[00:00:34.410]And our attempt is to identify biomarkers
[00:00:37.390]of concussion severity and recovery.
[00:00:39.690]And that I've tried to get other universities to come along
[00:00:41.812]and it's simply not possible there
[00:00:43.940]because of those two factors:
[00:00:45.150]The fact that we have this unique space
[00:00:46.635]built in the football stadium
[00:00:48.600]that makes it easy
[00:00:49.650]and that we have this very unique collaboration.
[00:00:51.950]So how has the technology changed
[00:00:53.798]even in the span of space
[00:00:55.027]of, you know, these last seven or eight years of CB3?
[00:00:58.920]Some of the advancements may sound mundane;
[00:01:01.190]For instance, we can monitor live time participants
[00:01:04.750]movements in the scanner,
[00:01:06.210]but it's very critical that they don't move
[00:01:07.851]while they're in there.
[00:01:09.020]And it's a major advance to be able to know live time
[00:01:11.180]if you're getting good data or not.
[00:01:12.810]More interestingly for people,
[00:01:14.010]it might be that we can collect
[00:01:15.270]not just MRI data,
[00:01:16.436]but EEG, electroencephalography.
[00:01:19.470]We can collect psychophysiology, electrophysiological
[00:01:21.680]measures on the skin, eye tracking.
[00:01:24.020]We can do all this at the same time.
[00:01:25.890]So we have a much deeper picture about how the brain
[00:01:28.670]and the body are interacting.
[00:01:30.770]So, if there's something that you would point
[00:01:32.773]to in the time period
[00:01:34.600]that the Center for Brain Biology and Behavior
[00:01:36.730]research has been in place, that would be like, wow,
[00:01:41.240]you know, about the brain.
[00:01:42.073]What have you learned?
[00:01:43.200]I often tell my students
[00:01:44.340]that the human brain is the most complex known object
[00:01:46.710]in the universe.
[00:01:47.543]And so we knew it was complex,
[00:01:49.280]what we didn't know is how much individual variability there
[00:01:52.270]was in both anatomy and the connections of the brain.
[00:01:55.220]It ends up these connections and the anatomy landmarks are
[00:01:58.420]almost like fingerprints that are unique to the individual.
[00:02:00.890]And that brings me back around to the concussion story
[00:02:03.600]and why it's so critical
[00:02:04.870]that we have baselines on everyone.
[00:02:06.620]Right.
[00:02:07.453]Because everyone's brain is different,
[00:02:08.520]and we're the only program
[00:02:09.660]in the country doing this right now.
[00:02:11.150]We're very proud of the Center for Brain Biology
[00:02:13.540]and Behavior research.
[00:02:14.740]Thank you for what you do.
[00:02:15.880]Thanks for being here.

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