The quality of the patient-clinician relationship is widely held to impact a patient’s response to treatment. Exactly how, though, has long remained a mystery. In a study reported in October 2020, Martinos Center researchers began to explore the questions of which parts of the brain and which typ...
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Translational Research Award Goes to Optics Division Investigator
Parisa Farzam, a postdoctoral fellow in the Martinos Center Optics Division, received the 2017 Translational Research Award this week at the annual Photonics West meeting in San Francisco. In accepting the award at the Translational Research lunch forum on Sunday, Farzam described a new techno...
The Neuroscience of Personal Space
We all have a need for personal space, the comfort zone we maintain around our bodies, implicitly entreating others not to encroach upon it. In recent years researchers have been probing the ways in which we regulate this space, looking at how and why our brains tell us when someone is simply ...
BrainMap
The BrainMap seminar series is offered by and for researchers using neuroimaging to study brain structure and function. Presented by invited speakers from around the world, as well as by investigators who call the Martinos Center home, the talks cover the gamut of topics - with a particular focus...
Martinos Responds: Nurse practitioner Amy Kendall redeploys to help with COVID-19 study
The Martinos Center's Amy Kendall wanted to contribute to the COVID-19 response. When imaging studies at the Center were put on hold for social distancing reasons, she asked if she could be redeployed to the Ragon Institute at MGH, MIT and Harvard to help with a biospecimen repository study with ...
Facilitating Integration of AI Into Radiology Practice
The Quantitative Translational Imaging in Medicine (QTIM) Lab at the MGH Martinos Center has contributed to the advancement of artificial intelligence in radiology practice in myriad ways. Not least: the group collaborated with the American College of Radiology Data Science Institute (ACR-DSI) in...
The Secret Lives Of Martinos Folk: Radio, Nerds, and Where Punk and Science Meet
When you hear the words "MIT radio station" you might imagine a group of nervous, bow tie-clad engineers crowded around a chalkboard with a Venn diagram of Roger Dean album covers and Silmarillion references. And you might be forgiven if you did. Such stereotypes of science and engineering studen...
Randy Gollub Named Chair-Elect of OHBM, Floats Idea of Ska Band’s Return
The Martinos Center’s Randy Gollub has been elected to be the next Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), an international society launched by Center researchers a quarter century ago. She is delighted to be able to step into the role: not least because of the many “resonanc...
From the “We Already Knew This” File: Partners Recognizes Donna Crowe’s Excellence
The Center’s Donna Crowe received a “Partners in Excellence” award for her always outstanding work as office manager and executive assistant to the director of the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. She accepted the award at a ceremony held last month. In addition to her many duties a...
Martinos Responds: ‘Community Help’ Website Brings People Together During a Time of Crisis
As healthcare challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic continue to mount, and patient care and hospital operations schedules grow increasingly busy, many direct care providers are finding ineeds t difficult to keep up with needs at home—grocery shopping, pet care or any number of other resp...
Matti Hämäläinen Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of the MGH Martinos Center's Matti Hämäläinen to its College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biologica...
Redeployment During the COVID-19 Pandemic
On Monday, April 6, as MGH prepared for the expected surge in COVID-19 patients, the hospital's leadership announced the likely redeployment of significant numbers of non-clinical workers. MGH had now entered the "all hands on deck" phase of the pandemic, where the need for additional support sta...
Xue-Jun (June) Kong
Xue-Jun (June) Kong, M.D. Principal Investigator and Director of Synapse Autism program at Martinos Center/Mass General Hospital, Principal Investigator and Attending Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Harvard Medical School. She leads her Autism research te...
Shahin Nasr
For the past 15 years, Shahin Nasr, PhD, has studied the visual system of humans and non-human primates using a variety of techniques, from psychophysics and event-related potentials (ERP) to conventional and high-resolution functional MRI, in order to understand the neural mechanisms underlying ...