Analyzing Stress Via Brain Imaging (Brandon)

Meeting with Paul 2/6/23

• Using stress as a variable, can analyze how stress affects the brain utilizing brain imaging software

  • Potentially 2 groups: “high” stress and “low” stress individuals.

    • Groups are sorted via scale on Qualtrics survey

• Measure of brain structure (specifically volume) in high stress vs low stress groups

• Stress in two ways: perceived stress (survey) and physiological stress (heart rate variability)

  • Stress and its relation to brain scans and brain volume

• Meet with Bea to learn kubios software to analyze heart rate variability