Dr. Bing Yao awarded major grant to study cognitive fatigue and iron deposition in MS

(Kessler Foundation) Bing Yao, Ph.D., has been awarded a $560,000 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to study the association between cognitive fatigue and brain iron concentration, as estimated by MRI susceptibility contrast imaging. Dr. Yao, a medical physicist, is the manager of the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center at Kessler Foundation, which is dedicated solely to rehabilitation research. This grant funds the first study of its kind, 'Investigating cognitive fatigue and brain iron deposition in basal ganglia in multiple sclerosis.'

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