2023 News & Events
MindCORE Seminar: Taraz Lee
Date: December 1, 2023
Speaker: Taraz Lee, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Description: Cognition, Control, and Action: the multifaceted interplay between cognitive and motor systems
Cognitive Control is a term used to describe the ability to flexibly adapt information processing and behavior in the service of our goals by exerting cognitive effort to overcome our habits and automatic thoughts/actions. We are fundamentally interested in the neural mechanisms that support these top-down processes and how they interact with motivation, learning, memory, and skilled action. In our investigations we use a multifaceted approach combining carefully designed behavioral experiments, computational modeling, functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI), and non-invasive brain stimulation via transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
MindCORE Special Seminar: Why Talking About Science Matters (and How to Do it Well)
Date: September 8, 2023, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: SAIL Room, 111 Levin Building, 425 S. University Ave
Maiken Scott, host of weekly health and science show “The Pulse,” offers tips and tricks she has learned from successful science communicators.
Dr. Casey Halpern's News Release
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
In this release, Penn Medicine researchers identify the link between memory and appetite in the human brain to explain obesity. Dr. Halpern speaks about the complexity of disordered eating in conditions such as binge eating disorder (BED) and the role of impaired connections between the dorsolateral hippocampus (dIHPC) and the lateral hypothalamus (LH), which may impact affected individuals' ability to control or regulate emotional responses when anticipating rewarding meals or treats.
Dr. Desmond Oathes' new Center for Brain Imaging and Stimulation (CBIS)
The brainSTIM Center would like to congratulate Desmond Oathes, PhD, in the creation of his new center, Center for Brain Imaging and Stimulation (CBIS). The goal of the center is to leverage cutting edge neuroimaging to guide brain stimulation tools that interrogate and manipulate brain networks involved in neuropsychiatric conditions. They also pursue TMS/fMRI methods development research with broad applications to cognitive and affective systems. The brainSTIM Center looks forward to collaborating with CBIS. Check out their websit
https://www.med.upenn.edu/oatheslab/
Dr. Roy Hamilton was interviewed for the Brain & Life Podcast
https://www.brainandlife.org/podcast/what-is-agnosia-how-does-it-affect-brain-perception
Dr. Roy Hamilton was interviewed for a Brain & Life Podcast episode titled "What is Agnosia and How Does it Affect the Brain’s Perception?" that aired on June 29, 2023. Dr. Hamilton discussed agnosia—a rare neurologic disorder characterized by an inability to recognize and identify objects or persons. He discusses the various types of agnosia, which parts of the brain are affected, and how it is treated.
Dr. Roy Hamilton was interviewed for WHHY-PBS The Pulse
https://whyy.org/episodes/neurotech-and-the-growing-battle-for-our-brains/
Dr. Roy Hamilton was interviewed for The Pulse, the WHHY-PBS podcast. The podcast was titled "Neurotech and the Growing Battle for our Brains" and aired on April 28, 2023. Dr. Hamilton discussed how brain stimulation is being used for various purposes and how the technology is advancing.
CNDS and brainSTIM Neuromodulation and Neuroimaging Relevant to Affective Disorders Speaker Series 2023
Speaker: Mark Eldaief, MD, MMsc, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School,
Frontotemporal Disorders Unit and PPA Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Division of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation, Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: Probing the functional and behavioral outcomes of network specific modulation in the individual
Date: December 20, 2023
Speaker: Cammie Rolle, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Title: Characterizing behavior states using NAC connectivity in LOC
Date: October 11, 2023
Speaker: Rebecca Price, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry
Title: Experimental Manipulation of OFC Function and Behavioral Context: A Study Testing A Causal Neurocognitive Account of Compulsive Behaviors
Date: October 4, 2023
Speaker: Daniel McCalley, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Padula BRAVE Lab, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Title: Digging into Dosing: The role of the skull in TMS for Alcohol Use Disorder (and beyond).
Date: September 27, 2023
Speaker: Lucia I Navarro de Lara, PhD, Instructor in Radiology, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Title: Concurrent TMS/fMRI/EEG: towards a causal brain imaging tool to understand and treat psychiatric conditions
Date: September 20, 2023
Speaker: Charles Lynch, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience in Psychiatry Psychiatry DepartmentWeill Cornell Medical College
Title: Expansion of a frontostriatal salience network in individuals with depression
Date: September 6, 2023
Speaker: Angelique Paulk, PhD, Instructor, Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: Are there Rules for How the Human Brain Responds to Direct Electrical Stimulation?
Date: August 30, 2023
Speaker: Noreen Bukhari-Parlaturk, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Duke University
Title: Functional MRI-Guided Individualized TMS for Focal Dystonia
Date: August 9, 2023
Speaker: Ceyda Sayali, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, Johns Hopkins, School of Medicine
Title: Investigating Test-Retest Reliability of TMS-Evoked Potentials (TEPs): Exploring TMS Protocols Across Distinct Target Sites
Date: August 2, 2023
Speaker: Andrew Moses Lee, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, School of Medicine
Title: Mapping Brain Networks in Psychiatric Disorders using Imaging and Invasive Electrophysiology
Date: July 19, 2023Speaker: Jan Kubanek, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah
Title: Ultrasonic neuromodulation for treatments of depression
Date: July 12, 2023
Speaker: Richard Betzel, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington
Title: Edge-centric connectomics for individual differences
Date: June 28, 2023
Speaker: Sara Hussain, PhD, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Phase-dependent and machine learning-driven real-time TMS: motor control mechanisms and interventional opportunities
Date: June 14, 2023
Speaker: Nader Pouratian, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Neurological Surgery at UT Southwestern
Title: MRI and Connectomics in Neuromodulation
Date: May 24, 2023
Speaker: Derek Evan Nee, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
Title: From Sensation to Affect: Probing the External-Internal Cortical Axis with TMS
Date: May 17, 2023
Speaker: Mascha van 't Wout Frank, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research), Brown University
Title: Can Electrical Stimulation Improve the Inhibition of Fear for Treatment of PTSD?
Date: May 10, 2023
Speaker: Cory Inman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cognition and Neural Science, University of Utah
Title: Capturing and Enhancing Episodic Memories Made in the Wild
Date: May 3, 2023
Speaker: Jürgen Germann PhD & Alexandre Boutet PhD
Title: MRI and Connectomics in Neuromodulation
Date: March 29, 2023
Speaker: Miquel Fullana, PhD
Title: What can brain stimulation do for psychotherapy? A focus on anxiety-related disorders.
Date: March 22, 2023
Speaker: Juha Gogulski, MD, PhD
Title: Mapping Cortical Excitability in the Human Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Date: March 15, 2023
Speaker: Heather Burrell Ward, MD
Title: Network-Targeted Neuromodulation for Nicotine Dependence
Date: March 1, 2023
Speaker: Francis X. Shen, JD, PhD
Title: The Challenge of Representative Samples in Neuroimaging and Neurotechnology Research: Toward Community Engagement and Neurotech Justice
Date: February 15, 2023
Speaker: Robert Reinhart, PhD
Title: Noninvasive neuromodulation for impaired cognition
Date: February 1, 2023
Speaker: Cory Inman, PhD
Talk Title: Capturing and enhancing episodic memories made in the wild
Date: January 25, 2023
Speaker: Katharine Dunlop, PhD
Talk Title: Resting-state connectivity-defined subtypes and antidepressant response
Date: January 18, 2023
Speaker: Michael Sughrue, MD
Talk Title: Neuroanatomic Specificity: Why it matters, how to use it
Date: January 4, 2023