Events 2011-2012

Date Presenter’s Name Title of the Presentation
Sep 15, 2011 Dorene Rentz, PsyD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Lecture Series: “The Role of Amyloid Burden in Cognitively Normal Older Adults”
Oct 6, 2011 Judith Schaechter, PhD, MSPT, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Lecture Series:”Stroke Matters:Changes in Brain Structure & Function during Motor Recovery”
Oct 13, 2011 Emily Lindemer, BS, VA Boston Neuroimaging Research Center Journal Club: Regional Cortical Atrophy in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Oct 20, 2011 Jeff Ellenbogen, MD, MMSc, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Research Lecture Series: “Biomarkers of Stable Sleep: Oscillatory Activity of the Brain Predicts Sound Sleep on Noisy Nights”
Nov 3, 2011 Doug Greve, PhD, Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Lecture Series:”Multispectral MRI Analysis of White Matter Pathology in Health and Disease”
Nov 10, 2011 Mike Esterman, PhD, VA Boston Neuroimaging Research Center, Boston Attention and Learning Lab Journal Club: “In the zone or zoning out? Tracking behavioral and neural fluctuations in attentional state”
Nov 17, 2011 Ayanna Thomas, PhD, Assistant Professor, Tufts University Research Lecture Series: The Biasing Effects of Perceived Semantic Associations on Metacognitive Judgments of Learning in People with Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type
Dec 1, 2011 Sara Lazar, PhD, Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Lecture Series: “Meditation and Neuroplasticity”
Dec 08, 2011 Danielle Miller, BS, (MDRC) Journal Club: Diffusion tensor imaging of blast-related TBI, comparingMacDonald (2011) article with theLevin (2010) article.
Dec 15, 2011 John Gabrieli, PhD, Professor, MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Lecture Series: Cognitive Neuroscience of Dyslexia
Jan 05, 2012 Linda Afifia, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, BUSM Research Lecture Series: The Therapeutic Potential of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation
Jan 12, 2012 Vitaly Dobromyslin, MS, VA Boston Neuroimaging Research Center Journal Club: Changes in functional resting state connectivity associated with PTSD
Jan 26, 2012 Morris Moscovitch, PhD, Professor, University of Toronto Research Lecture Series: Episodic memory and its uses: Evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging studies in patients and healthy controls
Feb 02, 2012 Anastasia Yendiki, PhD, Assistant Professor, MGH Research Lecture Series: Automated reconstruction of white-matter pathways from diffusion MRI
Feb 09, 2012 Emily Lindemer, BS, and Vincent Corbo, Ph.D., Danielle Miller, BA, VA Boston Neuroimaging Research Center Journal Club: Diffuse and spatially variable white matter disruptions are associated with blast-related mild traumatic brain injury
Feb 23, 2012 Bindiya Thakkar (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) and Ajaykumar Rao (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) Guest Lecture: Liraglutide in Obesity and Diabetes: Identification of CNS Targets using fMRI. Please note a room change: the lecture will take place in room 10-B-68 from 1:30-3:00 PM
Mar 01, 2012 Willem Huijbers, PhD, Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Research Lecture Series: How to explain the encoding/retrieval flip: on memory-related activations and deactivations
Mar 08, 2012 David Salat, PhD, VA Boston Neuroimaging Research Center Journal Club: The spatial distribution of age-related white matter changes as a function of vascular risk factors-Results from the LADIS study‎
Mar 15, 2012 Lorraine Wolf, PhD, Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor, Boston University Research Lecture Series: College Students with Developmental Learning Disorders and ADHD: Clinical and Assessment Issues
Apr 05, 2012 Mark Halko, PhD, Research Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Research Lecture Series: Non-invasive modulation of brain networks
Apr 12, 2012 Huiting Liu, MS, Margaret Cadden, BS, and Scott Hayes, PhD, VA Boston Neuroimaging Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine Memory and Neuroimaging Lab Journal Club: Influence of aerobic fitness on cognitive and brain function in young adults
Apr 19, 2012 Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli,PhD, Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Lecture Series: Resting state functional connectivity – methods, debates and clinical applications
May 03, 2012 Peggy St. Jacques, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University Research Lecture Series: The neural basis of autobiographical memory retrieval
May 17, 2012 Joshua Buckholtz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Harvard University. Research Lecture Series: Dopamine, Impulsivity, and Risk for Disinhibitory Psychopathology
June 7, 2012 Felipe De Brigard, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Research Lecture Series: Episodic Memory in Normal and Pathological Aging. The lecture will be held on the 13th floor, r. 13A-48, at 1:00 PM
June 11,2012 Daniela Palombo, M.A., Doctoral Candidate, University of Toronto, Canada Research Lecture Series: Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory in Healthy Adults: A New Mnemonic Syndrome. The lecture will be held on the 11th floor, r. 11B-48, at 12:00 PM
Jun 14, 2012 Sarah Noonan, PhD, VA Boston Journal Club: Prefrontal cortex, cognitive control, and the registration of decision costs