| 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 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." |
