| Jan 15, 2013 |
George Bush and colleagues recently published a paper in Nature using combined fMRI and single cell recordings in humans performing George's Multi-Source Interference Task (MSIT) (see the Publications page). The paper characterizes how dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) specifically contributes to cognitive control of goal-directed behavior. |
| Jan 15, 2013 |
George Bush and colleagues also used the MSIT and fMRI to show that atomoxetine and methylphenidate have similar but differentiable effects on cingulo-frontal-parietal attention networks in ADHD. |
| Dec 15, 2012 |
Martinos Center researcher Lisa Shin sat down with talk show host and journalist Charlie Rose last night. The interview, about post-traumatic stress disorder, will also be viewable online at Charlierose.com, beginning around Monday at noon. |
| Nov 13, 2012 |
Canon U.S.A. has announced collaborative research agreements with Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, including with the Martinos Center. |
| Nov 13, 2012 |
In a recent Frontiers in Human Neuroscience study, Gaëlle Desbordes and colleagues report that meditation appears to produce enduring changes in emotional processing in the brain. Read more about it here. |
| Oct 26, 2012 |
A TV team from the CBC Science documentary series "The Nature of Things" came to the Martinos Center and filmed the experiment described in a recent PNAS paper by Karin Jensen and colleagues: "Nonconscious activation of placebo and nocebo pain responses." The documentary, "Much ado about nothing," will focus on placebo research, and will feature interviews with Jensen as well as Harvard researchers Ted Kaptchuk and Irving Kirsch. |
| Oct 23, 2012 |
The English rock band Muse has used an image from the Human Connectome Project - based in part at the Martinos Center - as the album artwork for its new release, The 2nd Law. Read about it on the New Musical Express website. |
| Sep 17, 2012 |
A study by Marco Loggia, Vitaly Napadow and colleagues - "Disentangling linear and nonlinear brain responses to evoked deep tissue pain" - will be featured on the cover of the October issue of Pain. |
| Sep 14, 2012 |
The recent PNAS study by Karin Jensen and colleagues has been receiving a bit of media attention. The Harvard News, The Los Angeles Times and New Scientist have all reported on it. |
| Sep 11, 2012 |
The Guardian has an article about the recent PNAS study "Nonconscious activation of placebo and nocebo pain responses," and a podcast featuring an interview with the first author Karin Jensen. |
| Sep 10, 2012 |
Also announced today: the 2012-2013 calendar for the "Why & How" seminar series |
| Sep 10, 2012 |
We have posted the schedule for the fall 2012 Brainmap seminar series |
| Aug 13, 2012 |
Martinos Center investigator Suzanne Corkin has received the Baltes Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the Division on Adult Development and Aging of the American Psychological Association. This award recognizes "distinguished careers and outstanding contributions to the psychological science of aging." |
| Jul 30, 2012 |
Martinos Center researchers have shown for the first time that they can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells |
| Jul 26, 2012 |
This one is from April but it's still very much worth noting: The McGovern Institute for Brain Research has honored Martinos Center investigator David Cohen for his invention of magnetoencephalography, 40 years ago. |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
Massachusetts General Hospital has moved into the number one spot on the 2012-13 U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals” list. |
| Jun 26, 2012 |
A paper by Martinos Center researcher Norbert Kopco and colleagues - "Neuronal representations of distance in human auditory cortex" - has been noted in in the "Highlights from Early Edition" on the PNAS website. |
| Jun 26, 2012 |
Martinos Center researcher Giorgio Bonmassar and colleagues report that micromagnetic stimulation via devices implanted in the brain may be able to reduce symptoms of Parkinson's and other neurological diseases. Read the full news release here. |
| Jun 12, 2012 |
Martinos Center researcher Larry Wald was recently made a fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. |
| Jun 11, 2012 |
MedicalXpress.com has written up a recent PNAS study by Martinos Center researcher Jyrki Ahveninen and colleagues: "Scientists identify brain area that determines distance from which sound originates." See the MGH news release about the study here. |
| Jun 5, 2012 |
Martinos Center director Bruce Rosen and others spoke at the Biomedical Innovation Conference “Building High Performance Innovation Ecosystems” this week, convened by Madrid-MIT M+Visión Consortium. |
| Jun 4, 2012 |
Medicaldaily.com has written up Van Wedeen and colleagues' recent Science study |
| May 22, 2012 |
Scientific American has profiled the recent Science study by Van Wedeen and colleagues: "The Brain's Highways: Mapping the Last Frontier." |
| Apr 11, 2012 |
Martinos Center researcher Reisa Sperling is speaking at TEDMED today at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. |
| Mar 30, 2012 |
A Science study by Van Wedeen and collleagues, revealing a simple structure underlying the complexity of the primate brain, has been written up by Wired and The Boston Globe among others. Read the MGH news release here. |
| Mar 28, 2012 |
This year's Martinos Center Postdoctoral Pilot Funding Awards for Neuroimaging Projects have been announced. |
| Mar 22, 2012 |
The most recent issue of Nature features an article - "Neuroscience: Making connections" - about the Human Connectome Project. |
| Mar 6, 2012 |
Work by Michael VanElzakker, Lisa Shin and colleagues - studying post-traumatic stress disorder among identical twins - is profiled on the Tufts University News page. |
| Mar 1, 2012 |
CNN.com has posted a story about the Human Connectome Project, with comments from Bruce Rosen, director of the Martinos Center, and Van Wedeen, director of Connectomics at the Center. |
| Feb 14, 2012 |
David Boas, director of the Optics Divions, was recently promoted to full professor at Harvard Medical School. |
| Jan 24, 2012 |
A Wall Street Journal article - "Probing the Brain's Mysteries" - profiles work conducted with the Connectom imaging system at the Martinos Center. |
| Jan 11, 2012 |
A Dec. 1 profile in The Scientist profiles work by Philip Liu and colleagues. |
| Jan 11, 2012 |
Work by Michael VanElzakker, Lisa Shin and colleagues was profiled in a Nov. 17 blog post on the Scientific American website. |
| Dec 21, 2011 |
A study by Bradford Dickerson and colleagues was written up in the Metro section of the Boston Globe website. |
| Dec 16, 2011 |
Bruce Rosen received the International KFJ prize at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| Dec 9, 2011 |
Bruce Rosen was recently inducted as a member of the Insitute of Medicine. |
| Dec 8, 2011 |
The Radiological Society of North America has named Bruce Rosen, director of the Martinos Center, the 2011 RSNA Outstanding Researcher. "At the forefront of the explosion in research on the workings of the brain for the past 3 decades," the society said, "Bruce R. Rosen, MD, PhD, has developed the physiologic and functional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques used by clinicians and investigators throughout the world." |
| Dec 8, 2011 |
Martinos Center researcher Larry Wald has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). |
| Dec 6, 2011 |
Ted Kaptchuk, director of the Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter, is featured in this week's New Yorker. The program also has many members at the Martinos Center. |
| Nov 15, 2011 |
Medical Xpress has reported on a recent PNAS study by Yigal Agam and colleagues: "Multimodal neuroimaging dissociates hemodynamic and electrophysiological correlates of error processing." |
| Nov 7, 2011 |
A collaboration between Jacob Hooker and Tobias Ritter (Harvard Chemistry) has led to the development of a new method for PET radiotracer construction, which has been published in Science. The study has been written up by Chemical & Engineering News, the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World, and The Harvard Gazette. |
| Oct 10, 2011 |
An article in the Vancouver Sun, "Reading faces an imperfect science," discusses research by Lisa Feldman Barrett and colleagues. |
| Oct 10, 2011 |
Harvard Medicine features work by Nouchine Hadjikhani and colleagues in a special report on Science and Emotion. |
| Oct 7, 2011 |
A paper by Julien Cohen-Adad and colleagues, "32-Channel RF coil optimized for brain and cervical spinal cord at 3 T," is featured on the cover of the October issue of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. |
| Aug 23, 2011 |
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi discussed a study about intuitiveness and belief in God by Amitai Shenhav and colleagues in a blog post about this week's Republication debate. |
| Aug 2, 2011 |
A study by Marco Loggia and colleagues was reported in an ABC News story: Brain Scans May Help Verify the Hurt of Chronic Lower Back Pain |
| Jul 22, 2011 |
A recent episode of Jeopardy featured an MGH category, with questions about imaging technologies found at the Martinos Center, the first public demonstrations of anesthesia, and more. Read about the episode here, or go here to watch the contestants tackle the questions. |
| Jul 8, 2011 |
CNN.com recently interviewed Nouchine Hadjikhani about a paper she recently published, because it confirmed a hypothesis she presented two years ago voicing a possible connection between an increase in autism rates and Prozac intake during pregnancy. (See the final two paragraphs.) |
| Jun 8, 2011 |
Lisa Feldman Barrett's recent Science paper on gossip and visual perception has received consirable attention in the media, including stories at Science Magazine, The Washington Post, NPR and KQED.org, among others. |
| May 26, 2011 |
Martinos Center Joins "One Mind for Research" Launch |
| May 9, 2011 |
Stephanie Jones and Cathy Kerr were interviewed for a Fox 25 News "Living Well" segment this morning. Visit MyFoxBoston.com to watch them discuss their recent findings about the effects of meditation on the brain. |
| May 4, 2011 |
HealthImaging.com: Grant may set stage for optical imaging with all mammos |
| Apr 27, 2011 |
Mass High Tech News: MGH, UMass Medical researchers awarded $1M matching grants |
| Apr 25, 2011 |
US News and World Report: Meditation May Help Brain Block Out Distractions |
| Apr 25, 2011 |
Emery Brown appeared on NPR's Fresh Air today to talk about a recent New England Journal of Medicine paper he co-authored outlining what scientists know and don't know about anesthesia. |
| Apr 22, 2011 |
News-Medical.Net: Mindfulness meditation may enhance mental abilities |
| Apr 21, 2011 |
MGH Press Release: Meditation may help the brain 'turn down the volume' on distractions |
| Apr 8, 2011 |
MGH celebrated 10 successful years of close collaboration with Siemens today. The collaboration has been a major enabler of NIH-funded research at the Martinos Center, had major impact on the MRI field, and provided a model for academic-industrial collaborations. |
| Mar 31, 2011 |
Work by the Optics Division's Vivek Srinivasan and colleagues - on using doppler OCT to measure cortical cerebral blood flow measurement - is highlighted in the February issue of BioPhotonics, in an article entitled "OCT Branches Out." |
| Mar 30, 2011 |
MGH Press Release: Alzheimer's-like brain changes found in cognitively normal elders with amyloid plaques |
| Mar 7, 2011 |
MedicalPhysicsWeb has published an article describing a recent J. Nucl. Med. paper by Ciprian Catana and colleagues. |
| Feb 28, 2011 |
Emery Brown is featured in a New York Times Q&A. |
| Feb 8, 2011 |
Work on changes in the brain associated with mindfulness meditation, by Britta Hölzel, Sara Lazar and colleagues, has received a flood of media attention. In addition to the New York Times article noted below, it has been featured in the Boston Globe, on WBUR and on The Huffington Post. |
| Feb 4, 2011 |
A New England Journal of Medicine review article published Dec. 30 by Emery Brown has received considerable attention in the media. The paper set forth a new conceptual framework for understanding, describing and defining the differences and nuances among general anesthesia, sleep and coma. |
| Jan 28, 2011 |
The New York Times' "Well" blog explores recent work by Britta Hölzel, Sara Lazar and colleagues on changes in the brain associated with mindfulness meditation. This was the #1 most emailed article on the Times' website for five days. |
| Jan 7, 2011 |
The new Harvard Aging Brain Study, conducted at the Martinos Center, was recently discussed in the Boston Globe and on NPR. |
| Dec 27, 2010 |
Martinos Center researchers report in a recent issue of Nature Neuroscience that the amygdala is important to a rich and varied social life among humans |
| Dec 20, 2010 |
Work conducted at the Martinos Center on Diffusion Spectrum Imaging is highlighted in the Lifestyle section of the Boston Globe. |
| Nov 18, 2010 |
An episode of "THE DOCTORS" addressing the myth that we use only 10% of our brain will discuss research conducted by Justin Vincent - and by others at the Center and around the world - on "the resting brain." It will also feature one of Justin's YouTube videos on brain activity measured in the resting state using fMRI. The episode will air on Tuesday, November 23rd. Check your local listings. |
| Nov 10, 2010 |
The Optical Imaging Lab's work developing a combined optical/x-ray imaging system capable of obtaining both structural and functional information of the breast, which is reported in the online edition and January issue of Radiology, has been highlighted by several media outlets, including CBS Boston, HealthImaging.com and Ivanhoe. The work is a collaborative effort with Dr. Daniel Kopans and colleagues at the Breast Imaging Center at MGH. |
| Nov 8, 2010 |
Jacob Hooker Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineer |
| Oct 12, 2010 |
Bruce Rosen is elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Oct 12, 2010 |
Boston.com features work conducted by Martinos Center researcher Van Wedeen, Martinos Center director Bruce Rosen and collaborators in an article recently posted online: "On a quest to map the brain's hidden territory." |
| Oct 11, 2010 |
The November issue of Popular Science features an article about Matthew Rosen's low-field laboratory at the Martinos Center. |
| Oct 1, 2010 |
The Science Museum London now displays the Martinos Center's 90-ch brain array prototype |
| Sep 21, 2010 |
Investigators awarded NIH Pathway to Independence (K99) grants |
| Sep 8, 2010 |
Martinos Center researcher Van Wedeen is featured in a recent interview in American Scientist Magazine. |
| Aug 31, 2010 |
The Martinos Center's integrated MR-PET scanner moves into its new home |
| Aug 17, 2010 |
Wasim Q. Malik named 2011 Miles and Eleanor Shore Fellow by CIMIT |
| Aug 8, 2010 |
COSMOS magazine has covered a Nature Methods paper by Martinos Center researcher Sava Sakadzic and colleagues in the Photon Migration Imaging Lab. |
| Aug 8, 2010 |
Nature Methods issues press release about Sakadzic et al. paper (reproduced by the Martinos Optics Division) |
| Jul 1, 2010 |
Martinos Center researcher Philip Liu received a EUREKA (Exceptional Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration) award from NIDA. |
| Jun 30, 2010 |
Mass General Magazine features an article about Jacob Hooker, the newly appointed director of Radiochemistry at Mass General and the associate director of the MGH PET Core at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. (See here for further information about the integrated MRI-PET system at the Center.) |
| Jun 18, 2010 |
Simona Temereanca is a recipient of the 2010 Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award |
| Jun 8, 2010 |
Construction phase of the Martinos Center's MRI-PET project reaches the half-way mark |
| Apr 8, 2010 |
Researcher Nouchine Hadjikhani and her work were profiled in the March 25 issue of the Swiss magazine L'Hebdo (in French). |
| Mar 21, 2010 |
Martinos Center researcher Vitaly Napadow and work conducted at the Martinos Center are featured in a Wall Street Journal article about acupuncture, "Decoding an Ancient Therapy." |
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