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The imaging of neurochemicals is performed by the patented and trademarked BRODERICK PROBE® sensors. The sensors are unique in that the real-time imaging profile provided by Neuromolecular Imaging (NMI) relays active changes in brain chemistry, thus facilitating a more comprehensive approach studying to a wide variety of brain disorders. Developed over the course of the last twenty years by Dr. Patricia Broderick, the sensors have successfully been employed in many areas of clinical and pre-clinical research, including depression, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, substance abuse/addiction, anxiety, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Broderick and Fang are stepping off into the evening after analyzing and compiling data for poster presentations in San Diego, California (2004) and Washington DC (2005). Dr. Broderick and all her students work diligently to continue the innovative research made possible by BRODERICK PROBE® sensors.

We have a new graduate student from Hunter College, Stephanie Wolfe (her major mentor is Dr. Akira Kawamura).

We have a new post-baccalaureate CCNY student from Fordham University, Lauren Buchheim.

We have two new first year students from the CUNY Medical School/Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education: Annie Ma and Karyn Wat.

We are negotiating licensing agreements so that the BRODERICK PROBE® sensors can be used throughout the world.

Our clinical patents are being received well.

Dr. Broderick and Dr. Hope have a manuscript in press; this manuscript will be published in 2006 in Prog. Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry. The manuscript concerns cocaine effects in a depressed animal model.

IRB approval has been granted by the NYU Board, for the use of BRODERICK PROBE® sensors intraoperatively in epilepsy/tumor patients.