Medical Xpress: How hair and skin characteristics affect brain imaging: Making fNIRS research more inclusive
Medical Xpress featured CBR Core Faculty member Meryem Yücel’s research examining the impact of hair and skin characteristics on the quality of brain signals recorded using fNIRS. This research discovered inequities in data collection, and provides recommendations for best practices to optimize data collection across diverse populations. This study also included contributions from fellow CBR faculty, including David Boas, David Somers, Alice Cronin-Golomb, Swathi Kiran, and Terry Ellis.