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.

Neuroimaging is useful to assess Neural Stem Cell Implantation

MRI can characterize neural stem cell implantation by assessing the migration, proliferation and location. This can be achieved by labeling the neuronal “stem cells” with Iron, which can be observed with MRI. After the cells are implanted we see that the concentration of cells diminishes in the implantation area and increases in the final location of destination. During proliferation we see that the initial volume of cell increases afterwards decreases because there is dilution of the iron label. By evaluating the location of the cells we could monitor the success of the implantation. Using NMR Spectroscopy and analyzing with single voxel decomposition constitutes a recent neural stem cell biomarker. A study discussing this topic and its application to neonatal asphyxia is the following-

Ashwal S, et al; “Neuroimaging as a basis for rational stem cell therapy; Pediatric Neurology”, 2009, 40:227-236.

Adolfo Cotter, MD

Mar 30/2010

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