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BrainMap: Quantitative imaging of molecular medicine and cardiac physiology via CEST-MRI
2020-10-30 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Moriel Vandsburger, Department of Bioengineering, U.C. Berkeley
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Moriel Vandsburger, Department of Bioengineering, U.C. Berkeley

Women in Science Book Club
2020-10-29 17:00 - 18:00
Book: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | A Novel by Ocean Vuong

We’re reading award-winning poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel “On Earth We’re Briefly
Gorgeous.” This innovative, lyrical novel moves from the narrator’s experience as a
Vietnamese refugee to the blossoming of his queer identity, while weaving in the
often brutal wartime history that shaped the lives of his family, and in turn, his
own. Visceral yet also tender, the book deals with the bonds of family, the
realities of generational trauma, and questions of belonging and American identity.
It was awarded the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction and named a best book of
the year by Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, TIME, The Washington Post, The New Yorker,
NPR, Vanity Fair, and others.
As a reminder, all are welcome to join the discussion even if you have not finished
the book!

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Why & How: Remote Consent and Electronic Data Capture
2020-10-29 16:00 - 17:00
Why & How: Remote Consent and Electronic Data Capture

Lynn Simpson, MGB Research Information Science & Computing
Kassandra Round, MGH Martinos Center
Rowan Staley, MGH Martinos Center
MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
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BrainMap: A Journey in Translation: Advanced Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Neurodegeneration
2020-10-28 12:00 - 13:00
Prof. Gülin Öz, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota
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Prof. Gülin Öz, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota

BrainMap: Perception meets memory: A new view on memory disorders
2020-10-21 12:00 - 13:00
Prof. Morgan Barense, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

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Prof. Morgan Barense, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

Big Brothers Big Sisters Virtual Lunch & Learn!
2020-10-21 12:00 - 13:00
Empower the Potential of Children

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For more than 70 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of Eastern Massachusetts has partnered with under-resourced families to provide their kids with transformational, one-to-one professionally supported relationships with caring adult mentors, so that their children reach their full potential. We accomplish this mission with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as core values. We believe that we maximize our impact and truly thrive as an organization when perspectives are diverse, our culture is inclusive, and our practices model the equity we want to see in the world.

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It is our belief that one of the solutions is to bring people together that are different from each other. With the nature of our matching and with the recognition that our kids and Bigs come from different places, we are helping everyone to come together. Not only have children’s lives been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, as a country we are facing the unavoidable reality of the tragedy of racism. This inequity directly impacts all of the kids we serve, many of whom are children of color. As adults, how we respond and support children in our community will impact how they will view themselves, and their potential in the world. Our kids need you to be part of the solution and that is why our mission is more urgent than ever.

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Join us on Wednesday, October 21st for a virtual Lunch & Learn to learn more about the different programs available and the benefits of volunteering. You will also have an opportunity to hear current MGH employees discuss their time as Bigs, the experiences they’ve had while involved, and how they balance volunteering with their personal and professional lives.

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Event Details:
What: Big Brothers Big Sisters Virtual Lunch & Learn!
When: Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 12:00-1:ooPM
Where: Zoom; Please RSVP here
Why: To engage additional MGH employees as mentors for children in the local community

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If you have any questions about the event, please reach out to Michael Wright of Big Brothers Big Sisters at mwright@emassbigs.org

Why & How: MRI Artifacts
2020-10-15 16:00 - 17:00
Eugene Milshteyn presents on MRI Artifacts.

MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
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BrainMap: Mapping neural information flow using molecular fMRI
2020-10-14 12:00 - 13:00
Prof. Alan Jasanoff, Biological Engineering and the Center for Neurobiological Engineering at MIT
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Prof. Alan Jasanoff, Biological Engineering and the Center for Neurobiological Engineering at MIT

BrainMap: Some new avenues for the quantification of connectivity and microstructure with diffusion MRI
2020-10-07 12:00 - 13:00
Dr Saad Jbabdi, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the Wellcome Centre for integrative Neuroimaging
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Dr Saad Jbabdi, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the Wellcome Centre for integrative Neuroimaging

Why & How: Intro to MR Physics
2020-10-01 16:00 - 17:00
Avery Berman presents an introduction to MR physics.

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BrainMap: Individual connectome-based whole brain modelling for personalised medicine
2020-09-30 12:00 - 13:00
Dr Christophe Bernard, INS – Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, France
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Dr Christophe Bernard, INS – Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, France

BrainMap: Imaging the “Plastic” Brain – Between Myths and Science
2020-09-23 12:00 - 13:00
Director Laboratory for Research in Neuroimaging – LREN and Director MRI Platform Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Director Laboratory for Research in Neuroimaging – LREN and Director MRI Platform Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Lausanne, Switzerland

Why & How: Neuroanatomy II (Macroscopic)
2020-09-17 16:00 - 17:00
Zeynab Alshelh
MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
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BrainMap: Large Scale Neuroimaging Studies of Brain Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Understanding Developmental Psychopathology
2020-09-16 12:00 - 13:00
Ted Satterthwaite, MD, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
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Ted Satterthwaite, MD, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Science on Tap: Women in Science Fall Series + Structure + Elections | Viv Siless
2020-09-11 16:00 - 17:00
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Patricia Cirillo
John Samuelsson

BrainMap: Adaptive Reconfiguration of Brain Networks in Disorders of Consciousness
2020-09-09 12:00 - 13:00
Stefanie Blain-Moraes, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University
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Stefanie Blain-Moraes, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University

BrainMap: From fMRI Mega-analyses to Universal Representations of Cognition
2020-09-02 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Bertrand Thirion, INRIA/CEA/Neurospin France
Abstract:
To map the neural substrate of mental function, cognitive neuroimaging relies on controlled psychological manipulations that engage brain systems associated with specific cognitive processes. In order to build comprehensive atlases of cognitive function in the brain, it must assemble maps for many different cognitive processes, which often evoke overlapping patterns of activation. Such data aggregation faces contrasting goals: on the one hand finding correspondences across vastly different cognitive experiments, while on the other hand precisely describing the function of any given brain region. In this talk I will present two analysis frameworks that tackle these difficulties and thereby enable the generation of brain atlases for cognitive function. The first one uses deep-learning techniques to extract representations—task-optimized networks—that form a set of basis cognitive dimensions relevant to the psychological manipulations.This approach does not assume any prior knowledge of the commonalities shared by the studies in the corpus; those are inferred during model training. The second one leverages ontologies of cognitive concepts and multi-label brain decoding to map the neural substrate of these concepts. Crucially, it can accurately decode the cognitive concepts recruited in new tasks. These results demonstrate that aggregating independent task-fMRI studies can provide a more precise global atlas of selective associations between brain and cognition.
Bio:
Bertrand Thirion is the leader of the Parietal team, part of INRIA research institute, Saclay, France, that develops statistics and machine learning techniques for brain imaging. He contributes both algorithms and software, with a special focus on functional neuroimaging applications. He is involved in the Neurospin (CEA) neuroimaging center, one of the leading high-field MRI for brain imaging places. Bertrand Thirion is also head of the DATAIA Institute that federates research on AI, data science and their societal impact in Paris-Saclay University. He has recently been appointed as member of the expert committee in charge of advising the government during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Dr. Bertrand Thirion, INRIA/CEA/Neurospin France

BrainMap: Awake, Behaving Functional Imaging of the Marmoset at 9.4 T
2020-08-26 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Ravi Menon, Professor of Medical Biophysics, Medical Imaging, Physics and Psychiatry at Western University, Canada
Abstract:
Marmosets are small New World primates that could become an important preclinical animal model for studying human brain diseases. A critical step in the development of marmosets as a viable model for human brain dysfunction is to characterize brain networks that are homologous with human network topologies. It’s also important to understand if these network topologies are shared with rodents, the model in which the vast majority of preclinical work has been performed to date. I will review our MRI developments that have allowed us to develop awake, behaving marmoset imaging at 9.4T. I’ll then discuss some results from awake fMRI studies of these animals including recent work where we compare whole-brain functional connectivity fingerprinting of the medial frontal cortex (MFC) in rodents, marmosets and humans. We observe a remarkably similar intrinsic functional organization of the MFC across the three species, but clear differences between rodent and primate MFC whole-brain connectivity. In contrast to the common proposal that the rat MFC is functionally analogous with the primate lateral (LFC), our results demonstrate clear differences between the rodent MFC and primate LFC interareal functional connectivity. This cautions the use of rodents for behaviours and disorders involving the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in humans.
Bio:
Dr. Ravi Menon is a Professor of Medical Biophysics, Medical Imaging, Physics and Psychiatry at Western University, where he is also a member of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering and Founding Director of Western’s Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping (CFMM), Canada’s only ultra-high field MRI facility. He holds a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Alberta (1990), a M.Sc.(A) in Medical Physics from McGill University and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics from the University of British Columbia. He did his postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Kamil Ugurbil at the University of Minnesota. He was awarded one of the inaugural Canada Research Chairs in 2001. He has held grants from a broad spectrum of national and international funding agencies including a CIHR Foundation Grant in 2016. He currently serves as co-Scientific Director of BrainsCAN, a $66M grant from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.
He is twice an awardee of Canada’s Top 40 under 40 program and one of 20 recipients of the Young Explorers Medal from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. In 2015, he was elected as a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. In 2019 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
He has served in numerous advisory capacities, including 7 years on the Canada Gairdner Foundation and the Board of Scientific Councilors of NIMH/NIH. He served for 7 years (the last 4 as Chair) on the Institute Advisory Board of the Institute for Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction of the CIHR. He currently serves on the Board of the Brain Canada Foundation along with several of Canada’s leading Philanthropists.
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Dr. Ravi Menon, Professor of Medical Biophysics, Medical Imaging, Physics and Psychiatry at Western University, Canada

BrainMap: Sprouting and Regeneration of Peripheral Axons in Nerve injury and Disease Models
2020-08-19 12:00 - 13:00
Mohamed Farah, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Mohamed Farah, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

BrainMap: Cortical-Like Dynamics in Recurrent Circuits Optimized for Sampling-Based Probabilistic Inference
2020-08-05 12:00 - 13:00
Rodrigo Echeveste, Ph.D, Argentina’s National Research Council (CONICET)
Abstract:
The dynamics of sensory cortices show a suite of basic, ubiquitous features that have so far escaped a common, principled theoretical account. These include strong inhibition-dominated transients at stimulus onset, gamma oscillations, and noise variability – all stimulus-dependent. We present a unifying model in which all these dynamical phenomena emerge as a consequence of the efficient implementation of the same computational function: fast probabilistic inference. For this, we use a novel approach and train a recurrent E/I neural circuit model of a V1 hypercolumn. The network is required to modulate not only the mean (as conventional) but also the variability of its stationary response distributions in order to match the corresponding input-dependent posterior distributions inferred by an ideal observer. The optimized neural circuit features a number of remarkable properties. Firstly, the network discovers non-equilibrium dynamics, a state-of-the-art machine learning strategy to speed up inferences. The circuit also exhibits realistic biological properties for which it was not trained directly. It achieves divisive normalization and displays marked transients at stimulus onset, as well as strong gamma oscillations, both scaling with stimulus contrast. Crucially, these dynamical phenomena do not emerge in other control networks trained to match either mean responses only, or mean responses and variances (without modulating response co-variances). This model allowed us to make predictions regarding the tuning of transient responses that we later confirmed in novel analyses of awake monkey V1 recordings.
Brief bio:
Rodrigo Echeveste obtained his Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Physics from Balseiro Institute in Argentina, and his PhD from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. After a three year stay in the UK as a postdoc at Cambridge University’s Computational and Biological Learning Lab (CBL), he returned to Argentina where he now holds a permanent research position from Argentina’s National Research Council (CONICET) at the Research Institute for Signals, Systems and Computational Intelligence, sinc (i).
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Rodrigo Echeveste, Ph.D, Argentina’s National Research Council (CONICET)

BrainMap: Retrospective and Prospective Harmonization of Multi-Site Diffusion MRI Data
2020-07-29 12:00 - 13:00
Yogesh Rathi, Ph.D, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Abstract: MRI data acquired from multiple scanners is affected by several site specific effects such as the vendor specific reconstruction algorithm, the sensitivity of the receiver coils, as well as differences in acquisition parameters. This is especially true for diffusion MRI data. Consequently, direct pooling of data from different scanners can result in dramatically decreased statistical power in detecting subtle changes in the white/gray matter tissue microstructure. Our experimental work shows that these scanner effects are non-linear and vary across different parts of the brain. In this talk, I will present our algorithm on harmonizing dMRI data acquired from multiple scanners for retrospective as well as prospective multi-site studies. In particular, key advantages/disadvantages of this method compared to the standard methods of statistical covariates or meta-analysis will be discussed. I will also talk about our ongoing efforts on harmonizing 30,000 subjects from ABCD, HCP and HBN databases, which will enable very large-scale data analysis using any type of dMRI model.
Brief bio: Yogesh Rathi is an Associate Professor at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rathi’s research interests lie in developing smart imaging techniques to understand brain structure and function. His current research focus is on
1). Ultra-high resolution diffusion imaging in a clinically feasible scan time combining acquisition and reconstruction;
2). Harmonizing multi-site diffusion MRI data from 30,000 subjects;
3). estimating tissue microstructure from biophysical and stochastic models of diffusion, and
4). time-series analysis for understanding functional connectivity using fMRI data.
His clinical research focus includes using and developing sophisticated tractography algorithms for precise targeting of deep-brain stimulation (DBS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), Parkinson’s and major depressive disorder (MDD). His broad research focus is in the areas of signal and image-processing, statistics, control theory, machine learning, computer vision and related applications to solve inverse problems in medical imaging.
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Yogesh Rathi, Ph.D, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

BrainMap: Neural Mechanisms for Face Perception and Recognition
2020-07-22 12:00 - 13:00
Maria Ida Gobbini, Medical School of the University of Bologna, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine DIMES

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Maria Ida Gobbini, Medical School of the University of Bologna, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine DIMES

BrainMap: Imaging and Stimulating Adaptive Brain Plasticity
2020-07-15 12:00 - 13:00
Heidi Johansen-Berg, Ph.D., Director of the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, University of Oxford
Abstract:
Animal studies show that the adult brain shows remarkable plasticity in response to learning or recovery from injury. Non-invasive brain imaging techniques can be used to detect systems-level structural and functional plasticity in the human brain. This talk will focus on how brain imaging has allowed us to monitor healthy brains learning new motor skills, to assess how brains recover after damage, such as stroke, and how they adapt to change, such as limb amputation.
Although imaging is useful to detect such adaptations, many brain imaging measures are non-specific and do not allow us to pinpoint the underlying cellular changes that are driving observed effects. The talk will also discuss studies in animal models in which both imaging and histological approaches can be used to shed light on the underlying biological drivers for structural plasticity detected using MRI.
Finally, the talk will discuss how brain stimulation can be used to manipulate brain remodelling. For example, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the motor cortex can speed people¹s learning of a new task, alter their brain chemistry, or improve function in stroke patients. FMRI identifies changes in cortical activity that may mediate these functional benefits. In future, imaging could be used to guide individually targeted brain stimulation to enhance adaptive brain plasticity.
Bio:
Heidi Johansen-Berg is a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), based at FMRIB at the University of Oxford. The WIN aims to exploit the ability of non-invasive neuroimaging to bridge the gap between laboratory neuroscience and human health. Heidi’s own research group investigates plasticity and recovery in the sensorimotor system, with particular focus on white matter plasticity. The group’s research uses a variety of neuroimaging and stimulation tools in healthy human volunteers across the lifespan, individuals with brain damage, and rodents.
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Heidi Johansen-Berg, Ph.D., Director of the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, University of Oxford

BrainMap: Making Sense of Time in the Human Mind
2020-07-08 12:00 - 13:00
Virginie van Wassenhove, Ph.D., Research Director, Université Paris-Sud, France
Abstract:
Late 2008, she moved to NeuroSpin (France) to build NeuroSpin MEG and her research group. The Cognition & Brain Dynamics lab mostly uses psychophysics and time-resolved neuroimaging to study temporal cognition, with the understanding, that humans’ conceptualization of time may dramatically affect how we conceive of the mind and brain. The neural mechanisms supporting temporal cognition remain debated considering they do not encompass a unitary brain function. Temporal cognition in humans is a composite of psychological realities ranging from the individuation and ordering of events to the feeling that time passes, that things exist for a while (duration) or that we can mentally travel time. Several difficulties stand in the way of understanding psychological time: subjective temporalities emerge from the perspective of the brain – the generator, actuator and observer of events – and not that of the external observer (the experimenter). The psychological time arrow, taken as our sense of past-to-future, is a convenient metaphor for how allo- and egocentric temporal cognitive maps may help the capacity to mentally travel time, namely the capacity to generate a chronology of events suiting narratives. The ability to introspect about one’s timing productions (temporal metacognition) will further illustrate that time is “represented”, thus coded, and that the variability of timing is also constitutive of temporal representations. Altogether, these recent findings go beyond our classic notions of temporal perception as duration and focus on the endogenous generation of high-level temporalities may yield abstract and intelligible representations of time in the human mind.
Bio:
Virginie van Wassenhove is a CEA and INSERM Research Director at NeuroSpin, France. She received her PhD in Neurosciences and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Maryland (College Park, USA in 2004). Her thesis proposed the Analysis-by-Synthesis as a generative predictive coding framework for the integration of audiovisual speech in the human brain.
In 2005, she joined the UCSF to study auditory and multisensory learning and plasticity with MEG. In 2006, she relocated to a dual position at UCLA and at Caltech to work on multiple projects that included implicit statistical learning, time perception, gesture communication, and interpersonal interactions.
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Virginie van Wassenhove, Ph.D., Research Director, Université Paris-Sud, France

BrainMap: Capillary Dysfunction and Its Role in Brain Tissue Oxygenation
2020-07-01 12:00 - 13:00
Kim Beuschau Mouridsen, Ph.D., Professor at Aarhus University
Abstract:
There is growing evidence that cerebral oxygen availability depends on both cerebral blood flow and capillary function and integrity. During this webinar, Professor Kim Beuschau Mouridsen, will take a unified look at capillary dysfunction in a range of neurological diseases such as acute stroke, oncology and dementia, and show how this mechanism can be visualized with routine imaging protocols.
Bio:

Kim Beuschau Mouridsen, PhD, MSc is a Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the head of Neuroimaging Methods at the Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN) and MINDLab. Professor Mouridsen has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, holds 7 patents and is a serial entrepreneur.
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Kim Beuschau Mouridsen, Ph.D., Professor at Aarhus University

BrainMap: Leveraging Genomics and Biology for Non-invasive Metabolic Imaging and Therapy for Brain Tumors
2020-06-24 10:00 - 11:00
Pavithra Viswanath, Ph.D., Dept. of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF
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Pavithra Viswanath, Ph.D., Dept. of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF

BrainMap: Generative Modeling of Cortical Parcellations & Dynamics
2020-06-18 10:00 - 11:00
Thomas Yeo, National University of Singapore
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Thomas Yeo, National University of Singapore

Science on Tap: Commercializing science: Funding your Research while Founding your Company
2020-06-12 16:00 - 17:00
Noam Peled, Instructor Martinos Center
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Science on Tap: How Does the Brain Solve Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)?
2020-06-05 16:00 - 17:00
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Brain Map: White Matter Development in Children and Youth
2020-06-04 12:00 - 13:00
Catherine Lebel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Calgary
Abstract:
White matter development is critical to support proper cognitive function. Over the past two decades, diffusion tensor imaging has provided a clearer picture of the patterns of typical white matter development across childhood and adolescence. However, many questions remain. In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent work to (1) provide better specificity describing white matter changes in late childhood and adolescence, (2) detail typical white matter development in early childhood, and (3) describe altered developmental trajectories in children and youth with prenatal alcohol exposure.
Bio:
Catherine Lebel is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Calgary and the Canada Research Chair in Pediatric Imaging. She leads the Child Brain & Mental Health Program at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute and is a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute.
Dr. Lebel received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Alberta and completed postdoctoral training in Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research uses MRI to study how brain structure and function change with age in typical children and those with neurodevelopmental disorders, including fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and learning disabilities. She also examines how brain structure and function are related to cognitive, behavioural and environmental factors, including the prenatal environment.
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Catherine Lebel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Calgary
