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Frey said he hopes more depart
ments that are interested in behavioral
science, such as the economics depart
ment and the College of Education,
will begin using the center. He will
hold a workshop to educate interested
faculty about the equipment at the end
of this month.
Frey came to the University in fall
2004. He was previously employed at
Dartmouth College and Dartmouth
Medical School, where he said many
students used fMRI technology for re
search projects.
“To have a facility like this that is re
search-dedicated is a really special
thing,” Frey said, adding that usually
fMRI machines are only present at
medical schools. “I’m very excited
about trying to understand in part how
the human brain functions. ”
Chuck Theobald, System Adminis
trator for the center, said he’s happy
Frey was selected as director and is
looking forward to his efforts to in
crease the number of students who
use the center.
“It's a research facility here, and 1
think the more people that are ex
posed to it and understand what
functional magnetic resonance im
aging can be used for, the better,”
Theobald said. “It’s a noninvasive
technique for seeing things that we
can’t see otherwise.”
In addition to his duties as director,
Frey will teach one undergraduate
course and one graduate course per
year in the psychology department.
“This administrative role is a new
experience for me,” Frey said. “It gives
me a chance to increase the sphere I
can really impact and hopefully bring
positive changes to.”
Positive changes are something Frey
hopes Department of Defense-funded
research will bring to society.
Currently, the Department of De
fense is funding the center’s research
into how people who have lost arms or
legs adapt to using prosthetic limbs.
Frey said preliminary findings indi
cate that when the body loses a limb,
the brain reorganizes its functions sig
nificantly, and the area of the brain
that was previously used to control the
lost limb becomes used for other pur
poses. Thus, if someone loses a limb,
it is important to get the person a pros
thesis before his or her brain loses the
capacity to control that limb.
Shriners Hospital in Portland, which
provides free medical care to children
with missing limbs, is also involved
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Scott Frey took office
as Director of the
Lewis Center
for Neuroimaging
on Monday. He hopes
to help people with
spinal cord injuries
and amputated limbs
with new technology
and research
programs at the
University.
with this research, Frey said.
“I think that it’s important for peo
ple to realize that this is an example of
using Department of Defense funding
on campus that is going to be benefi
cial,” Frey said, adding that both mili
tary personnel and civilians who are
injured will benefit from this research.
The funding for this work is difficult
to obtain because private industry
doesn’t see the number of amputees as
high enough to justify funding re
search and because federal organiza
tions such as the National Institutes of
Health are having their budgets cut,
Frey said.
Frey said his interest in helping
people with spinal cord injuries and
amputated limbs was influenced by
his mother’s experience with multi
ple sclerosis, a chronic degenerative
disease that eventually left her com
pletely paralyzed.
“To me, it’s a real personal sort of
mission to learn what we can about
how to help these folks, and that mis
sion transcends one’s personal feelings
about the war,” Frey said. “For me, it’s
a completely separate issue.”
Frey said that while he is not in fa
vor of the war in Iraq and doesn’t
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he said he’s been surprised by the
amount of the campus activism
against military research, describing an
e-mail he’d received saying that Uni
versity research was being used to im
plant soldiers’ brains with the ability to
fight after they’d lost their limbs.
“It’s actually kind of humorous be
cause it’s so preposterous,” Frey said.
Frey said it is possible that in the
future, scientific developments will
allow amputees to move prosthetic
limbs with their brains. He said he
recently saw one person at Brown
University who was paralyzed from
the neck down and was able to con
trol a cursor on a computer screen
using only brain activity.
“I have to look at myself in the mir
ror every morning, and I wouldn’t take
money from any organization, military
or otherwise, that wasn’t using science
for humanitarian purposes,” Frey said.
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and technology reporter at
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contributed to this report
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