From cuixiaofei at gmail.com Mon Oct 13 19:19:02 2025 From: cuixiaofei at gmail.com (Xu Cui) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:19:02 -0700 Subject: [NfC] fNIRS Frontiers Weekly Newsletter Message-ID: Dear SfNIRS members, I just want to let you know that there is a free resource for fNIRS researchers from Stork: it will summarize the latest research in fNIRS and send users a brief weekly. Here is the link: https://www.storkapp.me/readingguide/ Below is a sample from last week's brief: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is emerging as a valuable > tool for diagnosing and assessing cognitive impairments. In a systematic > review published in *Alzheimers Dement*, David Simpong > from the University of Cape > Coast, Ghana, and colleagues highlighted that fNIRS can effectively detect > reduced prefrontal connectivity in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and > Alzheimer's disease, making it a promising diagnostic tool, especially in > resource-limited settings. Complementing this, research in *Geroscience* > by Zheng Li and his team at > the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College > demonstrated that fNIRS combined with machine learning can objectively > classify cognitive reserve levels in older adults, offering a scalable > method for early risk stratification. Similarly, a study in *Frontiers in > Psychiatry* led by Yonggang Mu from > Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine found that fNIRS can serve > as a candidate biomarker to differentiate individuals with stable > schizophrenia by measuring reduced brain activation in the frontotemporal > cortex during verbal fluency tasks. Disclaimer: I am also a developer of Stork. Best, Xu ---------------------------------------------------------------- Xu Cui, Ph.D Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University Blog: http://www.alivelearn.net Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cuixu ---------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: