Events 2013-2014

Date Presenter’s Name Title of the Presentation
Sep 12, 2013 Betsy Leritz, Ph.D. Journal Club: Article Discussion, “Metabolic syndrome and localization of white matter hyperintensities in the elderly population.”
Sep 19, 2013 Margaret O’Connor, PhD, ABPP-CN, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Lecture Series: Evaluation of driving competence: lessons learned in a hospital based clinic
Sep 26, 2013 Daniela Palombo, Ph.D, VA Boston Methods and Tutorial Series: Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis of neuroimaging data
Oct 3, 2013 Margaret Sheridan, PhD, Harvard Medical School Lecture Series: The brain as a pathway through which adversity can come to affect risk for mental health
Oct 10, 2013 Meghan Robinson, Ph.D. Journal Club: Article Discussion, “Neural activation during response inhibition differentiates blast from mechanical causes of mild to moderate traumatic brain injury.”
*Oct 16, 2013 at 3 PM Rajendra Morey, MD, Durham VA Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center Lecture Series: Fear, vigilance, and threat: unraveling the role of the amygdala in PTSD
Oct 24, 2013 Jeff Spielberg, Ph.D, VA Boston Methods and Tutorial Series: Graph theory approached to resting fMRI
Nov 07, 2013 Alfonso Caramazza, PhD, Harvard University Lecture Series: The organization of object knowledge
Nov 14, 2013 Taylor Kuhn Journal Club: “Memory and White Matter Changes in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.”
Nov 21, 2013 Aniruddh D. Patel, PhD Lecture Series: Musical syntactic processing in agrammatic Broca’s aphasia
Dec 5, 2013 Leah Somerville, PhD, Harvard University Lecture Series: Neurodevelopmental mechanisms of emotional processes in adolescence
Dec 12, 2013 Sarah Vallard Journal Club: “Inter- and Intra-Individual Variability in Non-Linguistic Attention in Aphasia.”
Jan 9, 2014 Danielle Miller Journal Club: Article Discussion, “White Matter Integrity in Veterans With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Associations With Executive Function and Loss of Consciousness.”
Jan 16, 2014 Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, Northeastern University Lecture Series: How emotions are made
Jan 23, 2014 Yael Reijmer, Ph.D, Massachusetts General Hospital Methods and Tutorial Series: Diffusion imaging based brain network analysis
Feb 6, 2014 Patrizia Vannini, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Lecture Series: Functional and pathological correlates of self-awareness of memory in aging and Alzheimer’s disease
Feb 13, 2014 Steven Lehar, Ph.D. Journal Club: Clifford Algebra
Feb 20, 2014 Eva-Maria Ratai, PhD Lecture Series: Clinical Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of the Brain
Feb 27, 2014 Jeff Spielberg, Ph.D, VA Boston Methods and Tutorial Series: Graph theory GLM
Mar 13, 2014 Daniela Palombo, Ph.D. Journal Club: Article Discussion: “Comparing Manual and Automatic Segmentation of Hippocampal Volumes: Reliability and Validity Issues in Younger and Older Brains.”
Mar 20, 2014 Natalia Rost, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital Lecture Series: Novel Risk Factors for Outcomes After Stroke
Apr 10, 2014 Randall Newmark, Ph.D. Journal Club: “High Resolution fMRI of the Hippocampus and Medial Temporal Cortex During Working Memory.”
May 1, 2014 Edwin M. Robertson, D.Phil, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Lecture Series: The control of motor memory processing
May 8, 2014 Jeff Spielberg, Ph.D. Journal Club: Article Discussion: “Connectomic intermediate phenotypes for psychiatric disorders.”
May 15, 2014 Koene Van Dijk, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital Lecture Series: Measuring functional and structural brain connectivity using MRI: with an update of the MGH/LONI Human Connectome Project
June 5, 2014 Alan Francis Using the Imaging Cluster
June 12, 2014 Kristina Peterson Journal Club
June 19, 2014 Alan Francis Using the Cluster Part 2
July 3, 2014 Daniela Palombo, PhD fMRI of Future Thinking
July 10, 2014 Alan Francis Journal Club
July 24, 2014 Susan Kim Journal Club
August 7, 2014 Michael Alsoco Journal Club: Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure: Mechanisms and Targets for Intervention
August 14, 2014 Danielle Miller Journal Club