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Transforming the understanding
and treatment of mental illnesses.

Molecular Imaging Branch (MIB)

Representative Publications

  1. L. An, and J. Shen, In vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy by transverse relaxation encoding with narrowband decoupling, Sci. Rep., 13:12211 (2023).
  2. L. An, J. W. Evans, C. Burton, J. S. Tomar, M. Ferraris Araneta, C. A. Zarate Jr., and J. Shen, Roles of strong scalar couplings in maximizing glutamate, glutamine and glutathione pseudo singlets at 7 Tesla, Front. Phys., 10:927162 (2022).
  3. J. Shen and J. S. Tomar, Elevated brain glutamate levels in bipolar disorder and pyruvate carboxylase-mediated anaplerosis, Front. Psychiatry, 12:640977 (2021).
  4. S. Li, J. W. van der Veen, L. An, J. Stolinski, C. Johnson, M. Ferraris Araneta, M. Victorino, J. S. Tomar, and J. Shen, Cerebral phosphoester signals measured by 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 3 and 7 Tesla, PLoS One, 16:e0248632 (2021).
  5. S. Marenco, C. Meyer, J. W. van der Veen, Y. Zhang, R. Kelly, J. Shen, D. R. Weinberger, D. Dickinson, K. F. Berman, Role of gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA) in the dorsal anterior cingulate in age-associated changes in cognition, Neuropsychopharmacology, 43:2285-2291 (2018).