Adolfo Cotter,MD

Brain-Mind Interface

Dr. Cotter practices Telemedicine in Primary Care. Conducts a competent, highly responsive Telemedicine practice since 2012, treating a variety of medical conditions from simple to very complex. Proficient with electronic medical records using a wide range of software packages and other forms of computing. Dr. Cotter also practiced Medicine doing Home Care, Urgent Care and Hospital Work.

Dr. Cotter has medical licenses in the states of Michigan, Indiana, and telehealth registration in the states of Minnesota and Florida. The links to the states medical boards are: Florida, http://www.flhealthsource.gov/telehealth/ Minnesota, https://mn.gov/boards/medical-practice/ Indiana, https://mylicense.in.gov/everification/ Michigan, https://www.michigan.gov/lara/0,4601,7-154-89334_72600_85566—,00.html

Dr. Adolfo Cotter founded Cognimetrix in 2007, motivated by a tremendous personal interest in the use of brain imaging data in the development of bionic based software to enhance creativity and intelligence.

Throughout his career, Dr. Cotter has performed brain imaging research in academic institutions such as Unversity of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, and Emory University. He has also conducted brain imaging research for commercial companies such as at Cerebral Diagnostics.

Dr. Cotter has given lectures in Brain Imaging and attended numerous Brain Imaging meetings where he has presented his research projects. He has experience in brain imaging data acquisition and analysis for technologies such as PET, SPECT, MRI, fMRI and EEG. During his brain imaging analysis work, he has done biostatistics using a variety of software programs.

Susceptibility Tensor Imaging (STI)

STI is a new MRI”technology in development. It consists on creating images and contrast based on the susceptibility of the tissue to the magnetic field. This susceptibility seems to be based to the anisotropic alignment of the molecules. The tissue is more susceptible when the angle to the magnetic field is smaller. A recent study in mouse, (Chunlei L. et al. 3D fiber tractography with susceptibility tensor imaging. NeuroImage (2012) 59: 1290-1298), shows a similar contrast to Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), although DTI seems to be superior in small and complex fibers.

It would be interesting to compare STI to neuroanatomical tract tracing, since pathology is still the gold standard. This is a new technology that needs more development although the initial results look promising.

Adolfo Cotter, MD

Jan 05/2012

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