Events 2012-2013

Date Presenter’s Name Title of the Presentation
Sep 13, 2012 Vincent Corbo, Ph.D. Journal Club: Interaction of Early Life Traumatization and PTSD severity on Cortical Thickness
Sep 20, 2012 Eric Leshikar, Ph.D., Brandeis University Lecture Series: Medial prefrontal cortex supports source memory in young and older adults when self-referencing
Sep 27, 2012 David Salat, Ph.D. Imaging Methods and Tutorial Series: Overview and Introduction
Oct 4, 2012 Trey Hedden, Ph.D., Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH Lecture Series: Cognitive profiles of amyloid burden and white matter hyperintensities in cognitively normal older adults
Oct 11, 2012 Nikki Stricker, Ph.D. Journal Club: White mater integrity in mild cognitive impairment
Oct 18, 2012 Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., HMS, BIDMC Lecture Series: Sleep, memory, & dreams: Lessons for PTSD
Oct 25, 2012 Mike Esterman, Ph.D. Imaging Methods and Tutorial Series: Introduction to TMS and Brainsight/TMS demo
Nov 01, 2012 Jean Augustinack, Ph.D., Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, HMS Lecture Series: Localization, topography and diagnosis in the medial temporal lobe in Alzheimer’s disease in high resolution ex vivo MRI
Nov 08, 2012 Scott Hayes, Ph.D. Journal Club: Imaging fitness-related neuroplasticity in aging and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Nov 15, 2012 Nancy Hebben, Ph.D. Lecture Series: Forensic Neuropsychology
Dec 6, 2012 David C. Somers, Ph.D., Boston University Lecture Series: Spatial Attentional Networks in Human Parietal and Frontal Lobes
Dec 13, 2012 Elizabeth Leritz, Ph.D. Journal Club: Article discussion: “Effects of systolic blood pressure on white-matter integrity in young adults in the Framingham Heart Study: a cross-sectional study.”
Jan 3, 2013 Larry Seidman, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School Lecture Series: Neurocognitive and Neural Substrates of Schizophrenia
Jan 10, 2013 Danielle Miller, Ph.D. Journal Club: Diffusion tensor imaging in blast exposed veterans
Jan 17, 2013 Lee Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., Boston University School of Medicine Lecture Series: CTE in Blast-Exposed Combat Veterans and a New Blast Neurotrauma Mouse Model
Jan 24, 2012 Emily Lindemer, Cortical Thickness Analysis Tutorial Imaging Methods and Tutorial Series: Intro to FreeSurfer
Feb 7, 2013 Angela Gutchess, Ph.D., Brandeis University Lecture Series: Aging and Memory for Social Contexts
Feb 14, 2013 Francesca Fortenbaugh, Ph.D., UC Berkeley Lecture Series: The Influence of Visual Field Boundaries on Attentional Resolution and Crowding Performance
Feb 21, 2013 Howard Eichenbaum, Ph.D., Boston University Lecture Series: Towards a functional organization of the medial temporal lobe memory system
Feb 28, 2013 Meghan Robinson, Ph.D Imaging Methods and Tutorial Series: fMRI analysis and AFNI
Mar 7, 2013 Eve Valera, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Mass. General Hospital Lecture Series: Fronto-cerebellar pathophysiology in ADHD
Mar 14, 2013 Daniela Palombo Journal Club: KIBRA Polymorphism is Associated with Individual Differences in Medial Temporal Lobe Volume: Evidence from anatomical segmentation using high resolution MRI
Mar 21, 2013 Alice Cronin-Golomb, Ph.D., Boston University Lecture Series: Effects of Parkinson’s Disease on Perception and Cognitio
Mar 28, 2013 Mike Esterman, Ph.D. Imaging Methods and Tutorial Series: Introduction to MVPA
Apr 4, 2013 Roee Admon, Ph.D., McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School Lecture Series: Disentangling predisposed from acquired neural abnormalities in PTSD
Apr 11, 2013 Neuroimaging Center Staff Journal Club: Article discussion: “Neural Dysregulation in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Evidence for Disrupted Equilibrium Between Salience and Default Mode Brain Networks.”
Apr 18, 2013 Karl Szpunar, Ph.D., Harvard University Lecture Series: Repetition-related reductions in neural activity reveal component processes of mental simulation
Apr 25, 2013 Danielle Miller Imaging Methods and Tutorial Series: Tracula Demo
May 2, 2013 Jonathan Polimeni, Ph.D., Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Lecture Series: Laminar analyses of BOLD spatial specificity measured in the human visual cortex using high-resolution 7T fMRI
May 09, 2013 Melissa Amick, Ph.D. Journal Club: A novel approach to identifying behavioral and neural markers of active suicidal ideation: Effects of cognitive and emotional stress on working memory in OEF/OIF/OND Veterans.
Jun 13, 2013 Emily Lindemer Journal Club: Article discussion: “Quantified MRI and cognition in TBI with diffuse and focal damage”
Jul 11, 2013 Vincent Corbo, Ph.D. Journal Club: “The Influence of Early Life Adversity on Emotion Regulation in Deployed Personnel”
Jul 18, 2013 Rachel Buckley, Ph.D. candidate, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne Lecture Series: Predictors of memory change in a community sample of the elderly: cognition, affect, subjective memory complaints and biomarkers