Professional Development Opportunities for Academic Subject Librarians

This chapter appears in Revolutionizing the Development of Library and Information Professionals: Planning for the Future, edited/authored by Samantha Schmehl Hines. Copyright 2014, IGI Global, www.igi-global.com. Posted by permission of the publisher

Neuroimaging Alzheimer's Disease

nd time. They detect group-specific features not apparent in individual patients' scans. Once built, these atlases can be stratified into subpopulations to reflect a particular clinical group, such as individuals at genetic risk for AD, patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or different dementia subtypes (frontotemporal dementia/semantic dementia), or patients undergoing different drug treatments. The disease-specific features these atlases resolve can then be linked with demographic factors such as age, gender, handedness, as well as specific clinical or genetic parameters (Mazziotta et al., 1995; Toga and Mazziotta, 1996; Thompson et al., 2001). New brain atlases are also being built to incorporate dynamic data (Thompson et al., 2002). Despite the significant challenges in expanding the atlas concept to the time dimension, dynamic brain atlases are beginning to include probabilistic information on growth rates that may assist research into pediatric disorders (Thompson et