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Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Fall 2002

Date

Speaker

Title

Sept 12

Fahmeed Hyder PhD

On the Efficiency of Brain Work: Implications for fMRI

Sept 19

Einar Mencl PhD

Survey of Event-Related Analysis Techniques

Sept 26

Robert Shulman PhD

The Restless Brain: Its Effects Upon fMRI

Oct 3

William Cunningham MA, MS

Automatic and Controlled Social Evaluation

Oct 10

Silvina Horovitz, MSc

Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy: Basic Principles and an Example with Semantic Anomaly Detection

Oct 17

Dr. Ralph Hoffman

Combining fMRI and rTMS to Study the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Auditory Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia

Oct 24

Marcia Johnson, PhD

fMRI Studies of Component Processes of Cognition: An Update

Oct 31

Dr. Vince Calhoun

Escaping the Poverty of the General Linear Model in Functional Brain Mapping: Independent Component Analysis for fMRI

Nov 7

Brian Pasley, BA

Emotional Processing of Perceptually Suppressed Faces During Binocular Rivalry

Nov 14

Dr. Mark Potenza

fMRI Studies of Pathological Gambling: Comparison with Cocaine Dependence

Nov 21

Dr. Hillary Blumberg

Neuroimaging of Bipolar Disorder

Nov 28

No Seminar Today

Thanksgiving Holiday

Dec 5

Fahmeed Hyder, PhD

TBA

 

Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Spring 2002

Date Speaker Title
Jan 24 Robin Schafer Grammatical and extra-grammatical factors in the activation of Broca's Area
Jan 31 no talk cancelled
Feb 7 Adam Anderson Identifying functional pathways with fMRI and fiber tracking
Feb 14 Naomi Driesen Relating Functional and Anatomical Connectivity: A Working Memory Study in Normal and Schizophrenic Subjects
Feb 21 no talk  
Feb 28 Nelson Donegan Neural substrates of emotional dysregulation in Borderline Personality Disorder
Mar 7 Charles Sanislow, William Cunningham, Todd Little (& the SEM-fMRI group) Structural Equation Modeling of fMRI Data: Issues and Resolutions
Mar 14 Keith Shafritz The functional neural correlates of attention in ADHD and normal adolescents.
Mar 21 Robert Bilder FMRI of Response to Conflict in Schizophrenia
 

Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Fall 2001

Date Speaker Title
Sept 13 Kent Kiehl The psychopath electrified, then magnetized: ERP and fMRI evidence for fronto-temporal abnormalities in criminal psychopaths.
Sept 20 Einar Mencl Brain responses to musical expectancy violation.
Sept 27 --------- No seminar: Yom Kippur
Oct 5 *FRIDAY* 1:45 Kent Kiehl SPM presentation *Held in GE conference room*
Oct 11 David Ross Why castratis had it good - on the nature of absolute pitch
Oct 18 Judith Ford ERP and fMRI evidence of a corollary discharge mechanism in the auditory system and its failure in schizophrenia
Oct 25 William Cunningham fMRI of conscious and nonconscious evaluation.
Nov 1 Jed Meltzer Correlation of prefrontal and hippocampal activations with encoding and retrieval success in associative memory.
Nov 8 Jess DiGiorgianni Attentional Influences on Memory: An Experimental Proposal
Nov 15 --------- No seminar: Neuroscience
Nov 20 *TUESDAY* 4pm Mark Lowe Studies of Low-Frequency BOLD Fluctuations in the Human Brain
Nov 29 Pawel Skudlarski Using low frequency correlations in the fMRI time series to investigate functional connectivity of human brain
Dec 6 Ingrid Olson Behavioral Studies of Visual Working Memory
Dec 13 Randy McIntosh Neural Context: Does the hippocampus always do the same thing?
 

Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Spring 2001

Date Speaker Title
Jan 11 Jennie Wakefield A theory of the developmental mechanisms underlying functional connectivity in adult language cortex and proposed applications of multiple MRI and fMRI techniques for hypothesis testing
Jan 18 Scott Johnson Imaging preparation and selection of prehensile movements
Jan 25 Yihong Yang The Arterial Spin Labelling Technique in Brain Activation Studies.
Feb 1 Bharat Biswal Computer intensive statistical methods for fMRI analysis
Feb 8 No seminar --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Feb 15 Silvina Horovitz fMRI and ERP correlations in an auditory oddball paradigm
Feb 22 Ingrid Olson Sensed and inferred motion
Mar 1 Christy Marshuetz TBA
Mar 8 Hoi-Chung Leung TBA
Mar 15 Daniel Mathalon Frontal Lobe Dysfunction During Error-Monitoring in Schizophrenia: fMRI and ERP Evidence.
Mar 22 Marcia Johnson fMRI Investigations of a Single Thought: PFC Activity Associated with Refreshing Just-Activated Information
Mar 29 Frank Guenther Neural Modeling of Speech Production and Perception
Apr 5 Kenneth Pugh Neuroimaging studies of Skilled Reading and Reading Disability: Methodological Issues in Studying Brain-Behavior Links.
Apr 12 Naomi Driesen A Cognitive-fMRI Approach Towards Understanding Working Memory Deficits in Schizophrenia
Apr 19 Robert Astur The Role of the Human Hippocampus during Virtual Navigation
Apr 26   No seminar
May 3 Carol Raye More on the Functional Organization of PFC in Working Memory: Does it matter WHAT is refreshed?
May 10 Vince Clark fMRI Studies of Multimodal Selective Attention
May 17 Karen Mitchell Behavioral and fMRI Evidence of Age-related Memory Binding Deficits
 

Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Fall 2000

Date Speaker Title
Sept 7 emotion series: Elizabeth Phelps The human amygdala and explicit memory
Sept 14 emotion series: Bruce Wexler fMRI of Happy and Sad Emotions and Cocaine Craving
Sept 21 Robert Lange HIC meeting: MANDATORY for all researchers who need HIC approval
Sept 28 -------------------------- No talk
Oct 5 emotion series: Nelson Donegan Strategies for studying emotional dysregulation, cognition, and their interaction in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Oct 12 emotion series: Marc Potenza An fMRI study of gambling urges in pathological gambling
Oct 19 emotion series: Robert Schultz The Social Brain: Building a Model from Neuroimaging Studies of Autism and Williams syndrome
Oct 26 emotion series: Hilary Blumberg TBA
Nov 2 emotion series: Rajita Sinha Responses to Stress in Cocaine Users: Physiological and Imaging Data
Nov 9 -------------------------- No talk: Neuroscience conference
Nov 16 Benjamin Bly In Defense of Neuroimaging
Nov 23 -------------------------- No talk: Thanksgiving
Nov 30 Barry Horwitz Using Neural Modeling and Functional Brain Imaging to Understand the Neurobiological Basis of Human Cognition
Dec 7 Naomi Driesen Towards a cognitive-fMRI approach to schizophrenia subtyping.
Dec 14 Keith Shafritz An fMRI investigation of visuo-spatial attention
 

Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Spring 2000

Date Speaker Title
Jan 27 Jennifer Dorosz Measuring the temporal fMRI response in the auditory cortex
Feb 3 Brad Peterson Structural Imaging Studies: Sexual Maturation of the CNS and the Effects of Preterm Birth
Feb 7 Hideaki Koizumi Functional analysis of the brain by near-infrared optical topograph
Feb 17 Naomi Driesen Understanding the nature of working memory deficits in Schizophrenia: processing vs. storage
Feb 24   Cancelled
March 2 Hoi-Chung Leung Object and location processing in human brain
March 9 Ralph Hoffman Clinical and basic neuroscience studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation.
March 16   cancelled
March 23 Isak Prohovnik Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Work in (hopefully) progress
March 30 Einar Mencl Working Memory: Behavior and Age Effects.
April 6 ISRM  
April 13 Nash Boutros Topography of the P50 evoked potential
April 20 Marc Potenza An fMRI study of gambling urges in pathological gambling
April 27 Song Lai (1)FAIREST: Novel Qunatitative MRI Technique for Perfusion and BOLD Imaging. (2)Artificial "initial dip" in fMRI
May 4 Vincent Clark Event-Related fMRI using P300 ERP Tasks
May 18 Sharif Jacob  
 

Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Fall `99

Date Speaker Title
Aug 12 Richard Kennan Introduction to NIR: Near InfraRed Topography
Sept 2 Lab meeting Discussion of subject screening, specific psy-tests, etc ..
Sept 9 Einar Mencl Music, Expectancy, and Brain
Sept 16 Lab meeting Discussion of active vs passive control
Sept 23 Gail Martino Synesthesia
Sept 30 Naomi Drisen Schizophrenia, guanfacin and working memory
Oct 7    
Oct 14 Alexander Carpentier Sentence processing:Auditory vs Visual Language and Plasticity
Oct 21 Hoi-Chung Leung Dissociation of cortical activations during spatial working memory using event-related fMRI
Oct 28 No talk Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Miami
Nov 4 Fahmeed Hyder Oxygen availability in brain: metablism and regulation
Nov 11 Mike Torello ERP Research: Pitfalls and Solution
Nov 18 Michelle Hampson Studying the functional connectivity of Tourette's syndrome
Nov 25 no talk  
Dec 2 No talk  
Dec 9 Annette Jenner Spoken and printed word identification: Within and across modality comparisons
 

Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Spring `99

Date Speaker Title
Jan 21 Devesh Raj Vasomotion in the Brain
Jan 28 Dr. Robert Fulbright  
Feb 4 Dr. Isabel Gauthier Current Work in Perceptual Expertise
Feb 11 Dr. Marvin Chun Visual Learning and Attention
Feb 18 Dr. Nancy Kanwisher from
Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT
Face Areas, Place Areas, and Visual Cognition
Feb 25 Dr. Bruce Wexler Schizophrenia
March 4 No Talk  
March 11 Dr. Einar Mencl Assessing Statistical Reliability in fMRI Data
March 18 No Talk  
March 25 Dr. Aysenil Belger Mapping neural correlates of attention deficits in schizophrenia
using functional magnetic resonance imaging and event-related potentials
April 1 No Talk  
April 8 No Talk  
April 15 No Talk  
April 22 No Talk  
April 29 Alison Adcock Central Executive Function in Dual Task Paradigms
May 6 René Marois The neural locus of an attentional bottleneck to visual awareness
 

Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Fall `98

Date Speaker Title
Sept 17 Isak Prohovinik Statistics of Neuroimaging
Sept 24 Bruce Wexler Changes in Regional Brain Activation Associated with Happy and Sad Emotion
Oct 1 No Talk  
Oct 8 Hoi-Chung Leung An event-related fMRI study of the Stroop effect
Oct 15 Dr. Elizabeth Phelps The relation between amygdala activity and episodic memory
Oct 22 Pawel Skudlarski What's New in "fMRI"?
Oct 29 Dr. Ellen Scanley Serotonin-1A receptor mediated changes in cerebral blood volume in the rat
Nov 5 No Talk - RSNA Meeting  
Nov 12 No Talk - Society for
Neuroscience Meeting
 
Nov 19 No Talk  
Nov 26 No Talk - Thanksgiving Holiday  
Dec 3 Dr. Anna Roe from
Yale's Section of Neurobiology
Optical imaging of visual cortical organization in primates
Dec 10 Dr. Robert Schultz fMRI studies of Autism: Faces, Facial Expressions and Social Attributions
Dec 17 TBA  
 

Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Fall `97

Date Speaker Title
Sept 25 Aysenil Belger Neuro-functional Basis of Working Memory
Oct 2 Alex Stevens Cross-modal comparisons of oddball tasks using fMRI
Oct 9 Ken Pugh Continued investigations of relations between hemispheric assymetries and word identification performance
Oct 16 Rob Fulbright Olfactory processing: regional brain responses to positive and negative odorants
Oct 23 Bob Turner  
Oct 30 NO TALK - Society for Neuroscience Meeting  
Nov 6 Cancelled - No Talk  
Nov 13 Isabel Gauthier Behavioral and Neural Changes following Expertise Training
Nov 20 Aina Puce Moving and static faces and face parts: fMRI and ERP studies
Nov 27 NO TALK - Thanksgiving holiday  
Dec 4 Einar Mencl Correlational Analysis of fMRI data
Dec 11 No Talk  
Dec 18 René Marois Dissociating the Visual Frames of Reference using fMRI

 

Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Spring `97
Date Speaker Title
16th Jan Bruce Wexler Emotion Task
23rd Jan Edward Novotny Brain Development
30th Jan Adam Anderson Optimizing Imaging Parameters for fMRI Studies
6th Feb Chris Gatenby Motion Correction
13th Feb Elizabeth Phelps The role of the Amygdala in Emotional Processing
20th Feb Joy Hirsch from Cornell University Applications of fMRI to neurosurgical planning and
investigations of human visual and language processes
27th Feb NO TALK  
6th March Brad Peterson fMRI of Inhibitory Neural Systems in Tourette's Syndrome
13th March Mike Schlosser fMRI studies of Motor, Sensory, and Language
20th March René Marois  
27th MarchBarry Horowitz from NIHNeural modelling applied to functional neuroimaging data : delineating brain visual processing network (part I)
3rd April B. Ellen Scanley Overview of the regulation of cerebral blood flow
10th April Aysenil Belger  
17th April ISMRM meeting - NO TALK  
24th April Roundtable presentations - ISMRM meeting  
1st May Pawel Skudlarski  
8th May Robert Fullbright  

 

Thursday Morning fMRI Seminars, Fall `96
Date Speaker Title
12th Sept Isabel Gauthier  
19th Sept Dana Leifer Functional MRI Studies of Motor Function in Patients Recovering from Stroke
26th Sept NO TALK  
3rd Oct NO TALK  
10th Oct John Ives, Beth Israel Hospital Combination of EEG and fMRI
17th Oct Richard Kennan  
24th Oct R. Todd Constable Improved Activation Maps via the Elimination of Motion Through Time-Domain Mixing of Data in Conventional Gradient Echo Functional MRI
31st Oct Henry Holcomb  
7th Nov Ken Pugh Auditory Selective Attention: An fMRI Investigation
14th Nov Alex Stevens Functional Imaging of Verbal and Non-verbal memory in schizophrenia
21st Nov NO TALK - Neuroscience Meeting  
28th Nov NO TALK - Thanksgiving Holiday  
5th Dec René Marois  
12th Dec Adam Anderson  

 
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