Help 4 JHD News Update with Dr. Peg Nopoulos

Monday, January 28, 2013 at 3:30 pm PT/5:30 CT/6:30 ET

Our incredible special guest tonight is Dr. Peg Nopoulos from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics where her primary clinical work has been working in the HD Center of Excellence. She is currently a professor in Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Neurology and she is an active faculty member of our Neuroscience Graduate Program. In 2001 she developed a program, the Iowa Medical Student Research Program that she continues to direct. She is an accomplished researcher focusing on understanding brain and behavior, using state of the art brain imaging techniques, specifically Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Dr. Nopoulos is interested in aspects of understanding normal healthy brain such as differences in brain structure and function between the sexes as well as understanding how the brain changes with development through adolescence. She was our incredible special guest on April 23, 2012 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/help4hd/2012/04/23/the-jhd-view-with-dr-peg-nopoulos where we discussed her most recent research program Kids-HD for children, adolescents, and young adults who are at-risk for Huntington’s Disease and tonight we get to hear an update of the study. Ages 6-18 are invited to participate in this Brain Imaging Study at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.