Ashkan Ashrafi, PhD
(Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
“Brain Connectivity Inference from Data Using Graph Signal Processing”
Friday, November 3, 2017
10:30-11:30am
6363 Alvarado Ct. #250
Friday, December 1, 2017: Larry Frank (Center for Scientific Computation in Imaging, UCSD)
“What’s in your brain? New methods for the exploration of neuroimaging data”
The University of Michigan announces a training course in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Functional MRI has become an important addition to the toolbox of cognitive and affective neuroscientists, but substantial training is required to implement an fMRI experiment.
The University will offer a 2-week intensive course from August 6-17, 2018, that will train attendees on the motivation for using fMRI, the physics that underlies the technique, the design of experiments, the acquisition of data, the analysis of those data, and the interpretation of brain activations that result. The course is intended for potential users of the technique, including graduate and postdoctoral students, as well as established biomedical researchers who wish to incorporate this technique into their work.
Via the sponsorship of a grant from the National Institutes of Health, the course is able to enroll up to 25 students from outside the University of Michigan, and to support the travel and subsistence costs of those visitors. Entrance into the course is by application only.
“Researchers’ understanding of autism has greatly advanced since the disorder was formally named in the 1940s. The earliest investigations into autism put forth a now wholly discredited notion that cold, detached parenting somehow stunted emotional and social growth. Today, scientists and families know that autistic characteristics exist on a spectrum; that many people with the disorder can and do lead long, healthy, happy lives; and that the root causes for autism involve a still-unresolved constellation of genetic and environmental factors. At San Diego State University, psychologists and special education researchers are helping to advance the state of the science of autism and explore understudied aspects of the disorder.
SDSU psychologist Axel Müller directs the university’s Brain Development Imaging Lab. Since he joined the university 17 years ago, he has brought in $10 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore how connections between cells in the brains of typically developing children differ from those with autism spectrum disorder.”
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