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- Martinos Center investigators and colleagues have developed a new web-based tool that may better predict whether a person will suffer a second stroke within 90 days of a first stroke. They reported the research in the December 16, 2009, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. A press release about the work can be found here.
- A study by Moshe Bar is featured on the cover of the November issue of Trends in Cognitive Science. The study, which presents a cognitive neuroscience hypothesis of mood and depression, is reported in the same issue.
- A conference on functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy is being organized for October 15-17, 2010. This meeting will bring together a diverse group of fNIRS users and developers to discuss the rapidly growing application areas for the technique and recent technological advances.
- The Martinos Center's Patrick Purdon was awarded an NIH Director's New Innovator's Award this year. The announcement and a description of his project can be found here (scroll down the page).
- A new information kiosk at the Museum of Science in Boston -- titled "Shape Your Well-Being" -- will feature research on meditation and brain structure by the Martinos Center's Sara Lazar. The kiosk will be in the Gordon Current Science & Technology Center (Blue Wing, Level 1) through 2010.
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The Martinos Center In The Spotlight
- Martinos Center investigators and colleagues recently reported a new web-based tool that may better predict whether a person will suffer a second stroke within 90 days of a first stroke. The study has already been covered by White Coat Notes / Boston.com, HealthDay News and CBC News (Canada), among other outlets.
- Carl Schwarz, director of the Developmental Neuroimaging & Psychopathology Research Laboratory at MGH and affiliated faculty in the Martinos Center, is featured in a recent New York Times article, "Understanding the Anxious Mind."
- USA Today and the Alz Forum (Alzheimer Research forum) have covered a recent study by Reisa Sperling and colleagues looking at the role of amyloid protein deposition and the disruption of memory formation in patients with Alzheimer's.
- Ksenija Marinkovic and colleagues at the Martinos Center recently published a study about alcoholism and emotional changes that has garnered quite a bit of media attention, including blog posts on Time.com and the L.A. Times website and articles on MDLinx, the ABC News website and the AJC website.
- Science News spotlights a study of emotions and the visual system by the Martinos Center's Lisa Feldman Barrett and Moshe Bar.
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Recent Publications
- Boas, D. A. and Dunn, A. K. (2010). "Laser speckle contrast imaging in biomedical optics." J Biomed Opt 15(1): 011109.
- Sahyoun, C. P., Belliveau, J. W., Soulieres, I., Schwartz, S. and Mody, M. (2010). "Neuroimaging of the functional and structural networks underlying visuospatial vs. linguistic reasoning in high-functioning autism." Neuropsychologia 48(1): 86-95. (PubMed Entry)
- Ran, C., Xu, X., Raymond, S. B., Ferrara, B. J., Neal, K., Bacskai, B. J., Medarova, Z. and Moore, A. (2009). "Design, synthesis, and testing of difluoroboron-derivatized curcumins as near-infrared probes for in vivo detection of amyloid-beta deposits." J Am Chem Soc 131(42): 15257-15261. (PubMed Entry)
- Medarova, Z., Vallabhajosyula, P., Tena, A., Evgenov, N., Pantazopoulos, P., Tchipashvili, V., Weir, G., Sachs, D. and Moore, A. (2009). "In vivo imaging of autologous islet grafts in the liver and under the kidney capsule in non-human primates." Transplantation 87(11): 1659-1666. (PubMed Entry)
- Medarova, Z., Rashkovetsky, L., Pantazopoulos, P. and Moore, A. (2009). "Multiparametric monitoring of tumor response to chemotherapy by noninvasive imaging." Cancer Res 69(3): 1182-1189. (PubMed Entry)
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