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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 Kate Horton | Photographer 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 5-day Rentals Over 3,000 DVDs • Arcade • Novelties • Games gift cards available HE & SHE I HE & SHE II ALBANY 290 River Rd., Eugene 720 Garfield, Eugene 1-5 EXIT 233, 3404 Spicer Dr. 688-5411 345-2873 541-812-2522 ADA accessible SKI SWAP Lane County Fairgrounds October 28 and 29 THURSDAY ~ r , 9 AM - 9 PM FRIDAY Consign Equipment 9am_5pm SALE Tickets $1.00 Friday Only § Presented by Willamette Pass, Willamette Backcountry Patrol and Hoodoo Ski Patrol know any faculty members who are, 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. Contact the business, science and technology reporter at esylwester@dailyemerald.com News editor MeghannM. Cuniff contributed to this report *1 liutikdlaif, ii Gaulle A Night To Remember • bruschetta • caesar salad • choice of our pasta-for-two dishes • amaretto creme brulee • full bottle of Oregano's house wine