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.”
“Here are some pictures of our new 13-ton Prisma being craned into the Engineering and Interdisciplinary Sciences building today. Some assembly is still required. The copper Faraday cage as well as tons of iron magnetic shielding will soon be wrapped around the magnet room as the Prisma is assembled, cooled down to almost absolute zero, brought up to field, and tested over the next month.”
Maria Kryza-Lacombe
Please join us on Wednesday, August 9th, 2017, from 3:00-4:00 pm for the next installment in our CCN student seminar series!
Maria Kryza-Lacombe from the TEND Laboratory, SDSU Department of Psychology, will be presenting “Neural Mechanisms of Pediatric and Adult Bipolar Disorder.”
Gabriela Meade
Please join us on Wednesday, June 7th, 2017, from 2:00-3:00pm for the next installment in our CCN student seminar series!
Gabriela Meade from the NeuroCognition Laboratory, SDSU Department of Psychology, will be presenting “Inhibiting oat and car to read cat: An ERP study of lexical competition in deaf and hearing readers.”
Dr. Annika Linke
Please join us on Wednesday, March 8th, 2017, from 2:00-3:00pm for the next installment in our CCN student seminar series.
Dr. Annika Linke, a postdoc in the Brain Development Imaging Lab, will discuss her research investigating language impairment and atypical sound processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Please find below a line-up of talks in the spring 2017 Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience lecture series. Although the lectures are organized in the context of a course (PSY 767), they are open to anyone interested (students, postdocs, faculty).
Dr. Robert T. Knight
Join the Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience on Friday, February 10th in welcoming Robert T. Knight, M.D. for a distinguished lecture, “ Frontal Cortex and Human Behavior: Insights from Intracranial Recording.” Lecture 1:00-2:30pm, Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union Theatre followed by a light reception.
CCN presents its Student Seminar Series! The next presentation is by Laurie Glezer, “Examining phonological and orthographic selectivity across the reading network in skilled and less-skilled reading” on Monday, December 5, 2016.
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