Wen-Yang Chiang1, Jing-Syun Yu2, Shen-Hsing Annabel Chen2, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng3
1Research Institute, The Methodist Hospital,
Houston, TX, USA; 2Department of Psychology, National Taiwan
University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Center for Optoelectronic Biomedicine,
National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
A protocol of combining structural and functional images is proposed to
localize the specific white matter connections between multiple activation
areas. We use fMRI and DSI for this protocol to localize the in vivo evidence
of white-matter connections involved in different neuronal activities in
cerebro-cerebullar working memory which has not been proofed before. This in
vivo technique not only enables us to discriminate the difference of adjacent
white-matter structures involve in different stages of functional activations,
but also prospects the vision of looking at the dynamic involvements of
white-matter connections during different neuronal activities.