Jody Tanabe, M.D

Email: jody.tanabe@uchsc.edu

Title: Assistant Professor

Section: Neuroradiology

Degrees: M.D.

Board Certifications:

• American Board of Radiology

Reseach and Academic Interests:

• Brain activation of smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEM) and the role of nicotinic receptors in modulating SPEM (Department of Psychiatry Neuroimaging Web Site)
• Functional imaging of acute nicotine and nicotine withdrawal using arterial spin labeling methods.
  

Biography:

Education:

• University of California, Davis B.S. June 1981 Physiology
• University of California, San Diego M.D. June 1985 Medicine
• 07/85-06/86 Internship, Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York
  
• 07/86-06/88 Research fellow, Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism Laboratory, Cornell University, NY,NY
  
• 07/88-06/92 Resident, Diagnostic Radiology, New York Hospital-Cornell Univ. Med. Center., New York, NY
  

Academic appointments:

• 07/92-06/93 Clinical Instructor in Neuroradiology, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, California
  
• 11/94-07/97 Post-doc. research fellow, Magnetic Resonance Unit, San Francisco VA Medical Center-UCSF, Calif
  
• 08/97-06/99 Assistant Professor Radiology, New York Univeristy Medical Center
  
• 07/99-present Assistant Professor Radiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Medical Center, Denver, CO

Other Highlights:

Selected Publications:

• Brint S., Jacewicz M., Kiessling M., Tanabe J., Pulsinelli W. Focal brain ischemia in the rat: Methods for reproducible infarction. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab, 1988;8:298-306.
• Jacewicz M., Brint S., Tanabe J., Wang X., Pulsinelli W. Nimodipine pretreatment improves cerebral blood flow and reduces brain edema in conscious rats subjected to focal cerebral ischemia J Cereb Blood Flow Metab, 1990;10:903-913.
• Dirnagle U., Tanabe J., Pulsinelli W. Pre- and post-treatment with MK-801 but not pre-treatment alone reduces neocortical damage after focal cerebral ischemia in the rat. Brain Res, 1991;527:62-68
• Nedergaard M., Kraig R.P., Tanabe J., Pulsinelli W. Dynamics of interstitial and intracellular pH in the evolving brain infarct. Am J Physiol, 1991; 260:R581-81.
• Kaplan B., Brint S., Tanabe J., Jacewicz M, Wang X., Pulsinelli W. Temporal thresholds for neocortical infarction in rats subjected to reversible focal cerebral ischemia. Stroke, 1991;22:1032-1039
• Jacewicz M., Tanabe J., Pulsinelli W. The cerebral blood flow threshold and dynamics for focal cerebral infarction in spontaneously hypertensive rats. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1992;12:359-370.
• Tanabe J., Amend D., Schuff N., DiSclafani V., Ezekiel F., Norman D., Fein G., Weiner M.W.. Tissue segmentation of the brain in Alzheimer's Disease. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol.1997;18:115-123.
• Tanabe J., Ezekiel F., Schuff N., Fein G. Magnetization transfer imaging: A volumetric method for evaluating white matter signal hyperintensities. Radiology 1997; 204(2): 570-574
• Schuff N., Amend D., Ezekiel F., Steinman S.K., Tanabe J., Norman D., Fein G. and Weiner M.W. Changes of hippocampal N-acetyl aspartate and volume in Alzheimer's Disease and normal aging: A proton MR spectroscopic imaging and MRI study. Neurology 1997;49:1513-1521.
• Schuff N., Amend D., Meyerhoff D., Tanabe J., Norman D., Fein. G., Weiner M.W. Quantitative magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging of frontoparietal brain in Alzheimer's disease. Radiology 1998; 207:91-102.
• Tanabe J., Miller R., Vermathen M., Weiner M.W., Rooney W.D. Reduced MTR and normal T2 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Magn Reson Imaging. 1998;16:1163-1169
• Kwan L.Y., Reed B.R., Eberling J.L., Schuff N., Tanabe J., Norman D., Weiner M.W., and Jagust W.J. Effects of subcortical cerebral infarction on cortical glucose metabolism and cognitive function Arch Neurol.1999;56:809-814.
• Tanabe J., Ezekiel F., Schuff N., Reed B., Norman D., Jagust W.J., Weiner M.W., Fein G. Magnetization transfer ratios of white matter hyperintensities in subjects with subcortical ischemic vascular dementia AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 1999;20:839-844.
• Capizzano A., Schuff N., Amend D., Tanabe J., Maudsley A., Norman D., Fein G., Weiner M.W. Subcortical ischemic vascular dementia: Assessment with quantitative MRI and 1H MR spectroscopy. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2000;21:621-630
• Tanabe J., Yongbi N., Branch C., Hrabe J., Johnson G., Helpern J. MR perfusion imaging of the human brain using UNFAIR technique. J Magn Reson Imag. 1999:761-767.
• Fein G., , Di Sclafani V., Tanabe J., Cardenas V., Weiner M.W., Jagust W.J. Reed B.R., Norman D., Schuff N., Kusdra L., Greenfield T., and Chui H. Hippocampal and cortical atrophy predict dementia in subcortical ischemic vascular disease. Neurology 2000;55:1626-1635.
• Ardekani B.A., Choi S.J., Hossein-Zadeh G, Lim K.O., Helpern J.A., Tanabe J.L., Projesz, B., Begleiter, H. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the visual P300 event-related potential (in revision).
• Tanabe, J., Miller, D., Tregellas J., Freedman R., Meyer F. Comparison of detrending method for optimal fMRI pre-processing (in press, Neuroimage).