Usage of fMRI for pre-surgical planning in brain tumor and vascular lesion patients: Task and statistical threshold effects on language lateralization

Background and purpose: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a non-invasive pre-surgical tool used to assess localization and lateralization of language function in brain tumor and vascular lesion patients in order to guide neurosurgeons as they devise a surgical approach to treat these lesions.We investigated the effect of varying Field

read more

Demography of a forest elephant population.

African forest elephants face severe threats from illegal killing for ivory and bushmeat and habitat conversion.Due to their cryptic nature and inaccessible range, little information on the biology of this species has been collected despite its iconic status.Compiling individual based monitoring data collected over 20 years from the Dzanga Bai popu

read more