These meetings are held at NKI (conference room B) the second Wednesday of each month, 9:30-11:00 am. The agenda includes:
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Jan.10, 2007 | Dr. Joseph A. Helpern | Using MRI to assess changes in brain tissue microstructure in normal aging and neurodegenerative disease |
| Nov. 29, 2006 | Dr. Lawrence Robert Frank | Acquisition and Analysis for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data |
| Nov. 8, 2006 | Dr. Judith Ford | Out-of-step: Neural Asynchrony and Symptoms of Schizophrenia |
| Oct. 11, 2006 | Dr. Susan L. Andersen | Enduring effects of juvenile methylphenidate (Ritalin) exposure |
| Sept. 13, 2006 | Cancelled | TBA |
| June 14, 1006 | N/A | N/A |
| May 10, 2006 | Dr. Marek Kubicki | Anatomical Connectivity in Schizophrenia - Evidence from Diffusion Tensor Imaging |
| April 12, 2006 | Dr. David Olson | T2 Relaxation Effects in MRS Studies of Schizophrenia and Cocaine Dependence |
| March 8, 2006 | Dr. Babak Ardekani | Image Registration Methods for Group Analysis of Neuroimaging Data |
| Feb. 8, 2006 | Dr. Manzar Ashtari | Attention-Deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a preliminary diffusion tensor imaging study |
| Jan. 11, 2006 | Dr. Larry Seidman | Vulnerability of the Brain in the Risk for Psychosis: Results from the Harvard Adolescent High Risk Study |
| Nov. 9, 2005 | Dr. Sanjiv Kumra ----------------------------- --- | Application of Diffusion Tensor Imaging to Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Disorders |
| Oct. 13, 2005 | Dr. Philip Szesko | Neuroanatomic Evidence for Frontotemporal Abnormalities in Schizophrenia |
| Sept. 8, 2005 | John J. Sidtis, Ph.D | Finding the function in functional images revisited: more insite from the speaking brain. |
| June 9, 2005 | CANCELLED | TBA |
| May 19, 2005 | Dr. Rene KahnProfessor and Chair Department of PsychiatryRudolf Magnus Institute of NeuroscienceUniversity Medical CenterUtrecht, The Netherlands |
Schizophrenia as a progressive brain disorder |
| April 14, 2005 | Dr. Gina Kuperberg, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology, Tufts University | Making Sense of Nonsense: Spatiotemporal imaging of language processing in schizphrenia |
| Mar. 10, 2005 | Jay Nierenberg, M.D., Ph.D, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Nathan Kline Institute | Brain Recovery Following Abstinence from Cocaine |
| Feb. 22, 2005 | Dr. F. Xavier Castellanos - Brooke and Daniel Neidich Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Director, Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience; Director of Research, NYU Child Study Center | Developmental trajectories of brain anatomic abnormalities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with and without stimulant treatment |
| Jan. 13, 2005 | Dr. Matt Hoptman | White Matter Integrity in Psychiatric Disorders: Methods and mechanisms |
| Nov. 10, 2004 | Mony J. de Leon, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Director Center for Brain Health, New York University School of Medicine | Neuroimaging and Biological Markers in the Early and Specific Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease |
| Oct. 13, 2004 | David N. Guilfoyle, PhD, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Nathan Kline Institute | 101 Uses of Echo Planar Imaging |
| Sept. 8, 2004 | Dr. Nick Ramsey, Head of the Functional Neuroimaging Section, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht | On the adaptive nature of Working Memory: fMRI and cortical recording/stimulation studies |
| June 9, 2004 | Dr. James D. Christensen | Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Schizophrenia |
| May 12, 2004 | CABI All-Stars - Medical Physics, NKI | "ISMRM Review" |
| April 14, 2004 | Dr. Martha Shenton, Professor and Director, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Imaging Studies, Surgical Planning Laboratory, MRI Division, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, Harvard Medical School | ERP, Cognitive, and MRI Findings in Schizotypal Personality Disorder |
| March 10, 1004 | Guido Gerig, PhD, Taylor Grandy Professor of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Improved Imaging and Image Analysis to Study Brain Change in Mental Illness. |
| February 18, 2004 | Godfrey Pearlson, M.D., Director, Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Hartford Hospital - Professor, Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine | Virtual Reality & Simulation in the fMRI Environment -- Illustrations from Simulated Driving. |
| Jan. 14, 2004 | John Foxe, Life Sciences, NKI | Executive Control Processes: Integrated fMRI and high electrical investigations |
| Dec. 10, 2003 | N/A |
N/A |
| Nov. 12, 2003 | Daniel Mathalon, PhD, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine | Progressive Brain Changes in Schizophrenia: Clinical Course and Interactions with Alcoholism |
| Oct. 8, 2003 | In-Young Choi, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
1H MR Spectroscopy of the human brain in vivo at 3 Tesla |
| Sept. 10, 2003 | Dara S. Manoach, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Massachusettes General Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
Prefrontal cortex dysfunction during working memory performance in schizophrenia: reconciling discrepant findings |
| August 13, 2003 | N/A |
Meeting Canceled |
| July 9, 2003 | N/A |
Meeting Canceled |
| June 11, 2003 | Jay Nierenberg, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Schizophrenia: Novel Approaches to Characterizing White Matter Abnormalities in Major Psychiatric Illness |
| May 14, 2003 | N/A |
Meeting Canceled |
| April 9, 2003 | CABI All-Stars - Medical Physics, NKI | "ISMRM Review" |
| March 12, 2003 | Henry Rusinek, Ph.D - Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, NYU School of Medicine |
Analysis of image texture using multiscale Gaussian deritives |
| February 12, 2003 | N/A |
Meeting Canceled |
| January 8, 2003 | Todd Miller, MD - Albert Einstein Medical Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Radiology |
The microvasculature of the Basal Ganglia |
Dec. 11, 2002 |
N/A |
Meeting Canceled |
| Nov. 13, 2002 | Steven Strother, Ph.D. Professor of Radiology, University of Minnesota |
Plurality, Quality Metrics and Consensus in the Analysis of fMRI Data Sets |
| Oct. 9, 2002 | Rolf Gruetter, Ph.D Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Neuroscience; Director, MR Core, Clinical Research Center, University of Minnesota, Center for MR Research |
Neurochemical basis of brain function measured with ultra-high field MR |
Sept. 18, 2002 |
Monte S. Buchsbaum, M.D. Neuroscience PET Laboratory, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
Imaging the thalamus in schizophrenia with FDG-PET, MRI AND fMRI |
Aug. 14, 2002 |
N/A |
Meeting Canceled |
July 10, 2002 |
Glenn Wylie, Cognitive Neuroscience Program, NKI |
Two neurophysiologic correlates of executive control: What can ERPs and fMRI tell us about how we switch between two tasks? |
June 12, 2002 |
Michael Hutchinson, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine |
Parkinson's Disease: New Developments in the imaging, management, and prospects for cure |
May 8, 2002 |
Babak A. Ardekani, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
ISMRM 2002 Review |
Apr. 10, 2002 |
Truman Brown, Director of MR Research, Health Sciences Division, Columbia University |
Bayesian Image Decomposition |
Mar. 13, 2002 |
Antigona Martinez, Sophie Molholm, Cognitive Neuroscience & Schizophrenia Program, NKI |
Cortical Mechanisms of Selective Attention to Spatial Frequency - Preliminary Evidence from fMRI (Martinez) An Investigation into the Functional Neuroanatomy of Automatic Change Detection Using fMRI and an Optimal Paradigm (Molholm) |
Feb. 6, 2002 |
John A. Sweeney, Center for Cognitive Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois |
Bridging Basic and Clinical Neuroscience with fMRI |
| Jan. 9, 2002 | Certified Operators In-Training | Discussion of Certified Operator Training Course procedures |
| Dec. 12, 2001 | Kent A. Kiehl, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine | The Psychopath Electrified, then Magnetized: ERP and fMRI Evidence of Fronto-Temporal Abnormalities in Criminal Psychopaths |
| Nov. 14, 2001 | N/A | Meeting Canceled |
| Oct. 10, 2001 | Sherry Dingman, Department of Psychology, Marist College | What do Chicks, Crayfish and Recombinant DNA have to do with Imaging? |
| Sep. 12, 2001 | N/A | Meeting Canceled |
| Aug. 8, 2001 | David Silbersweig, Weill Medical College of Cornell University | Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Neuropsychiatric Symptom States |
July 11, 2001 |
CABI All-Stars - Medical Physics, NKI (Drs. Alexey Peshkovsky, David Guilfoyle, Jan Hrabe, and Robert Bilder) |
ADAPT:
Apparatus for Dynamic Angular Position Tracking
(Peshkovsky) |
June 13, 2001 |
Micah M. Murray, Cognitive Neuroscience Program, NKI |
A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Illusory Contour Processing: Combined High-Density Electrical Mapping, Source Analysis and fMRI |
May 9, 2001 |
John J. Sidtis, Department of Psychology, NYU and Geriatrics Program, NKI |
Finding the Function in Functional Images - Implications from Speech Production |
Apr. 14, 2001 |
Randall L. Barbour, SUNY Downstate and Polytechnic University |
Real-Time Imaging of Vascular Dynamics by Optical Tomography |
Mar. 14, 2001 |
Glyn Johnson, Department of Radiology, NYU Medical School |
"Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI of Cerebral Hemodynamics" |
Feb. 14, 2001 |
Babak A. Ardekani, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Analysis of Event-Related fMRI Data: A Non-Parametric Approach |
Jan. 10, 2001 |
Charles S. Springer, Jr., Brookhaven National Laboratory and Chemistry Department, SUNY |
Contrast Reagent Bolus-Tracking MRI Studies: The Importance of Equilibrium Transcytolemmal Water Exchange |
Dec. 13, 2000 |
TBA |
TBA |
Nov. 8, 2000 |
Eric Zarahn, Columbia University |
Power Analysis for fMRI Experiments |
Oct. 11, 2000 |
Bradley S. Peterson, Yale University School of Medicine |
Neuroimaging Studies of Sex, Maturation and Impulse Control |
Sep. 13, 2000 |
Joy Hirsch, The Functional MRI Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
Investigation of Large-scale Cortical Systems for Fundamental Cognitive Tasks |
Jul. 12, 2000 |
Lester Kwock, Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina Medical School |
Proton MRS of Pediatric Affective Disorders: Bipolar vs. ADHD |
Jun. 14, 2000 |
Michael Lipton, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Perfusion Imaging |
May 10, 2000 |
N/A | Meeting Canceled |
Apr. 12, 2000 |
various | ISMRM 2000 review |
Mar. 8, 2000 |
John J. Foxe, Program in Cognitive Neuroscience, NKI |
A "mild-CURRY" demonstration of the coregistration of high-density electrical recordings with anatomic MR images |
Feb. 9, 2000 |
Jin Fan, Weill Medical College, Cornell University |
fMRI of Source Versus Fact Memory |
Jan. 12, 2000 |
Joseph A. Helpern, Director, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Stuart Little and the Big Magnet (Imaging the Transgenic Mouse at 7 Tesla) |
Dec. 8, 1999 |
Gwenn Smith, Hillside Hospital Division of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System |
PET Studies of Monoaminergic Function in Neuropsychiatric Disorders |
Nov. 10, 1999 |
Kevin H. Knuth, Research Scientist, NKI |
The Relevance of Blind Source Separation Problems to Imaging: Bayesian Solutions to the Linear Mixing Problem |
Oct. 13, 1999 |
Robert M. Bilder, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Nicotine Effects on Brain Activation |
Sept. 8, 1999 |
Babak Ardekani, Center Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Application of Bayesian Inference to fMRI Data Analysis |
Aug. 11, 1999 |
Elizabeth Phelps, New York University |
The Relations Between Human Amygdala Activity & Episodic Memory |
Jul. 14, 1999 |
Daniel Turnbull, New York University |
MRI Transgenic Mice |
Jun. 9, 1999 |
N/A | Meeting Canceled |
May 12, 1999 |
N/A | Meeting Canceled |
Apr.14, 1999 |
Lucy L. Brown, Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
"Works in Progress": Metabolic mapping of the somatosensory homunculus in normal, lesion and disease states-fMRI and unusual PET procedures |
Mar. 10, 1999 |
Craig Branch, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
An Overview of MR Perfusion Imaging (everything you always wanted to know about labeling spins but were afraid to ask) |
Feb. 10, 1999 |
David Guilfoyle, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
An Introductory Tutorial on High Speed Imaging Principles (everything you always wanted to know about k-space but were afraid to ask) |
Jan. 13, 1999 |
various | Participants are invited to examine and "test drive" the Avotec fiber-optic visual system, and pneumatic patient communication/audio system on the SMIS 3.0T system |
Dec. 9, 1998 |
Craig Ferris, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical Center |
Functional Imaging in Conscious Animals |
Nov. 11, 1998 |
Robert Bilder, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
An Overview of Image Analysis Applications for fMRI |
Oct. 14, 1998 |
N/A | Meeting Canceled |
Sept. 9, 1998 |
Michael Worden, Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
fMRI Studies of Attentional Modulation in Early Visual Cortex |
Aug. 12, 1998 |
Daniel Pine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons |
Applications of fMRI to Child Psychiatry -- Anxiety as a Model |
Jul. 8, 1998 |
various | HBM '98 review |
Jun. 10, 1998 |
Kelvin O. Lim, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Schizophrenia |
May 13, 1998 |
Jun Shen, Magnetic Resonance Center, Yale University School of Medicine |
Development of MRS Methods for Measuring Glutamate and GABA Neurotransmitter Cycling |
Apr. 8, 1998 |
Michael Hutchinson, New York University |
Lexical and visual retrieval in the brain: a functional MRI study |
Mar. 11, 1998 |
Lucy L. Brown, Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Somatosensory stimuli and somatotopic maps: a diagnostic probe of basal ganglia pathophysiology and movement disorders |
Feb. 11, 1998 |
Nava Rubin, Department of Physiology and Neurology, New York University |
Abrupt learning of illusory contour perception and its neural basis |
Jan. 14, 1998 |
Laszlo Zaborsky, Center of Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University |
Basal forebrain in attentional mechanisms. A proposal for an fMRI study |
Dec. 10, 1997 |
Herbert Vaughan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
ERP/fMRI studies of phonotopic cortical activation |
Nov. 12, 1997 |
Herbert Vaughan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
fMRI studies of visual perception and recognition using a randomized stimulus design |
Oct. 1, 1997 |
Joseph Helpern, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Organizational Meeting |
Apr. 2, 1997 |
Joseph Helpern, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
MR contrast mechanisms |
Mar. 5, 1997 |
Tom Zeffiro, Sensor Systems, Inc. |
Medex |
Jan.15, 1997 |
Robert Shapley, New York University |
Vision |
Dec. 18, 1996 |
Jonathan Brodie, New York University Medical School |
fMRI studies of language |
Nov. 6, 1996 |
Robert Bilder, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Cognitive activation in fMRI |
Oct. 23, 1996 |
Joseph Helpern, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Cognitive activation in fMRI |
Sep. 25, 1996 |
Joseph Helpern, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
fMRI BOLD Imaging and MR Imaging of Cerebral Blood Flow using FAIR and UNFAIR |
Jul. 24, 1996 |
Joseph Helpern, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
fMRI BOLD Imaging and MR Imaging of Cerebral Blood Flow using FAIR and UNFAIR |
Jun. 23, 1996 |
Robert Bilder, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Update of the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging |
May 1995 - May 1996 |
Joseph Helpern, Craig Branch, Barry Chapman, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI |
Courses in basic MR physics |
Apr. 18, 1995 |
E. Roy John, Marilyn Noz, Henry Rusinek, Fred Bookstein, New York University Medical School |
Multimodal registration methods and research |
Mar. 27, 1995 |
Sam Williamson, Urs Ribary, New York University |
Magneto-electroencephalography |
Feb. 21, 1995 |
E. Roy John, Leslie Prichep, New York University Medical School, Jan Volavka, NKI |
QEEG & EP |
Jan. 17, 1995 |
Joseph
Helpern, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, NKI, |
Functional MRI |
Dec. 20, 1994 |
Marilyn Noz, Gwen Smith, New York University Medical School |
SPECT/MRI, dual tracer methods, SPECT research |
Nov. 29, 1994 |
Andrew Litt, Mony DeLeon, New York University Medical School |
MRI/CT methods |
Oct. 18, 1994 |
Mony DeLeon, Adam Wolkin, New York University Medical School |
PET research |
Sep. 1994 |
Jonathan
Brodie, New York University Medical School, |
PET method and PET research |
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