New York Regional Imaging Group Meetings

These meetings are held at NKI (conference room B) the second Wednesday of each month, 9:30-11:00 am. The agenda includes:

Schedule.

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 Kahn

Professor and Chair Department of Psychiatry

Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience

University Medical Center

Utrecht, 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)
A SMASHing Future for CRASH! (Guilfoyle/Hrabe)
fMRI of Working and Unemployed Memory (Bilder)

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,
Michael Hutchinson, New York University Medical School,
Gregory Simpson, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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,
Monte Buchsbaum, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

PET method and PET research


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