Functional mapping of autonomic control circuits in the human brain

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/509089

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Nerves called sympathetic nerves stimulate the heart and raise blood pressure. The brain drives them when we are excited or frightened. It also over-drives them in cardiovascular diseases, and this makes matters worse. This project will use MRI brain scanning to investigate, for the first time, how the cerebral cortex and brain stem act together to control sympathetic nerves. Understanding how this system works normally will help tell us how it may malfunction, and what we can do to correct it.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2010

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $291,451.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical infection agents (incl. prions)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

autonomic nervous system | blood pressure | brainstem | cardiovascular | cerebral cortex | functional magnetic resonance imaging | hypertension | neuroimaging | thermoregulation | vasoconstriction

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