Wellness Resources

To offer support to its staff and researchers, Partners, MGH, and several other groups have put together resources that address the challenges we may be facing in our day-to-day lives as we handle this unique situation. Here, we compile those resources & information to make it easier for you ...

Ona Wu

The research goals of Dr. Wu's group are to improve the diagnosis, prognosis andĀ management of patients with brain injury by quantifying and monitoring injuryĀ or recovery on an individual patient basis. The group focuses particularly on stroke,Ā cardiac arrest and traumatic brain injury. Predictin...

Daphne Holt Receives MGH Research Scholars Award

The Martinos Center's Daphne Holt is among the distinguished investigators in the 2018 Class of MGH Research Scholars. She received the honor for her project "Altered neural mechanisms of personal space in schizophrenia: a novel biomarker of negative symptoms and treatment target." Schizophren...

Prospective Students Experience the Martinos

Last Friday, the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging welcomed 18 prospective students from theĀ Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST). The students came to learn about educational opportunities at the Center as they look toward the next stage of their academics. The...

Education & Diversity

Education lies at the heart of everything we do: from training the next generation of scientists - students and postdoctoral fellows, among others - to hosting immersive, weeklong courses covering a range of advanced imaging techniques. Educational Courses The Martinos Center has for many years...

The Martinos Center’s Got Talent!

On Wednesday, January 11, the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging will stage its first-ever talent show, aptly titled: "The Martinos Center's Got Talent!" The event will showcase the many, varied talents of folks from across the center, from accordion playing to ballroom dancing, from stan...

Noam Peled

I have a broad background in neuroimaging, with specific training and expertise in analyzing and visualization of multi-modality neuroimaging datasets. I received my Ph.D. degree in machine learning and games theory from Bar-Ilan University in 2014, and in 2015 I started my position as a research...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The Center's magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities include the following. Large-bore MRI Systems Ā * All subject bays are equipped with Blu-ray/DVD players for subject entertainment Bay 1: Siemens 3T MRI Skyra with 128ch receive capabilities and 2ch pTx This is a Siemens 3T Skyra wit...

Jyrki Ahveninen

Dr. Ahveninen's mission is to apply novel and improved techniques to achieve more accurateĀ estimates of human brain function than previously achieved. His work focusesĀ on neuroimaging of human auditory system, auditory working memory andĀ higher-order auditory cognition using techniques including ...

Julie Price

One of the Center's newest senior faculty members, Julie Price, PhD, brings to the Martinos community a wealth of experience with quantitative positron emission tomography (PET). With this technique, researchersĀ study the dynamics of the PET radiotracer in vivoĀ in order to obtain absolute measure...

Shahin Nasr

For the past 15 years, Shahin Nasr, PhD, hasĀ studied the visual system of humans andĀ non-human primates using a variety of techniques, from psychophysics andĀ event-related potentials (ERP) to conventional and high-resolution functionalĀ MRI, in order to understand the neural mechanisms underlying ...

Early Screening of ASD With a New Eye-tracking Paradigm

Studies have shown that early diagnosis and intervention significantly impact the prognosis of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): the earlier the detection and diagnosis, the better the prognosis and functional status later in life. Currently, the average age of diagnosis is approxi...

Roberta Sclocco

Dr. Sclocco has a background in bioengineering and signal processing, with specificĀ training in non-invasive neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI, EEG) and peripheralĀ autonomic data analyses. Since the beginning of her career, she have beenĀ interested in the interactions between the central and peripheral au...

5 Things You Didnā€™t Know About David Cohen and MEG

Last week the MGH Martinos Center dedicated its advanced magnetoencephalography (MEG) facility as the David Cohen MEG Laboratory. Cohenā€”the inventor of MEG, a leader in the field of biomagnetism for more than 50 years, and a Martinos Center faculty member who was instrumental in building and deve...