Christopher Nguyen

The Nguyen lab focuses on the development and clinical application of novel imaging techniques to characterize the cardiovascular system including MRI, optical, and PET. Our primary research interests fall into four general areas: (1) bio- inspired design for heart assisted devices (Science Robot...

Lilianne Mujica-Parodi

Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi is Director of the Laboratory for Computational Neurodiagnostics (LCNeuro). LCNeuro's research focuses on the application of control systems engineering and dynamical systems to imaging-derived time series, at all scales: from human fMRI, M/EEG, fNIRS to rodent LFP and c...

Creativity and Diversity in the Martinos Center

Martinos Center executive director David Vaughn recently sat down to talk about his work in the Center, and about what makes the Martinos so special. Hear what he had to say about creativity and diversity in the Center in the video below. In our humble opinion, he couldn't be more right! ...

Why & How

The Why & How seminar series is designed to introduce research assistants, graduate students, and postdoctoral and clinical fellows - really, anyone who is interested - to the many tools used in the Center. These include software tools and most of the major imaging modalities wielded by Marti...

AMA @ Martinos: Anastasia Yendiki

The 2022 meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), to be held June 19-22 in Glasgow, Scotland, will feature keynote lectures by no fewer than two Martinos Center researchers: Anastasia Yendiki and Jon Polimeni. In anticipation of the meeting, we approached Anastasia about putting...

Matthew Sacchet

Dr. Matthew D. Sacchet, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Meditation Research Program at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General). Dr. Sacchet and his team study advanced meditation: states and stages of contemplative practice that unfold wit...

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...

With New PET Probe, Researchers Image Fibrosis of the Lungs

The MGH Martinos Center's Pauline DĆ©sogĆØre and colleagues have described a new positron emission tomography (PET) probe that canĀ help to advanceĀ noninvasive diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis. Reported in a Science Translational MedicineĀ paper published onlineĀ today, the probe enables detection and ...

Nanodiamond-enhanced MRI: A Dazzling New Approach to Imaging

Nanodiamonds ā€“ synthetic industrial diamonds only a few nanometers in size ā€“ have recently attracted considerable attention because of the potential they offer for the targeted delivery of vaccines and cancer drugs as well asĀ for other uses. Thus far, options for imaging nanodiamonds have been li...

Jason Stockmann

Jason Stockmann, PhD, is broadly interested in magnetic resonance imaging hardware andĀ acquisition methods for improving data quality for both structural andĀ functional imaging. He has worked on diverse MRI scanners ranging in fieldĀ strength by two orders of magnitude, from low-field (80 mT) to u...

Ken Kwong and the Introduction of Noninvasive fMRI

In the early months of 1992 the neuroscience community was flush with excitement. Jack Belliveau, a graduate student with the MGH-NMR Center (now the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging), had recently published in ScienceĀ his pioneering work with functional MRI, and the possibilities of th...

Understanding Eye-contact Avoidance in People With Autism

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have difficulty looking others in the eyes. This is typically interpreted as a sign of social and personal indifference, but self-reports from people with autism suggests otherwise. Many say that looking others in the eye is uncomfortable or s...

Robert Savoy

Dr. Savoy received his academic training in applied mathematics at MIT (BSĀ 1971; MS 1975) and experimental psychology at Harvard University (PhDĀ 1980). This period included 10 years of work at Polaroid Corporationā€™sĀ Vision Research Laboratory, after which he joined the newly formed RowlandĀ Instit...