Until his death in February, 2010, Dr. Ernst Meyer and his students used PET and functional MRI to investigate the relation between cerebral blood flow (CBF) and metabolism under normal and pathological conditions. Being studied were patients with mitochondrial diseases in whom oxidative metabolism is disturbed. He was also developing better methodologies for measuring CBF and blood volume in normal subjects and in patients who have undergone neurosurgical operations. Similar methods were used to examine cerebral reorganization of sensory-motor areas in stroke patients in the hope of improving rehabilitation. With neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Leblanc, Dr. Meyer explored the application of non-invasive PET and fMRI to pre-surgical functional mapping as an alternative to exploratory craniotomy in patients suffering from arteriovenous malformations and epilepsy.

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E-mail: Ernst Meyer
Web Site: Meyer Lab