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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick visited the Martinos Center on June 4, touring the facility and reviewing the technologies developed here. View photos of his visit on the main news page.

Governor Patrick's visit to the Center is noted on page 4 of the May/June issue of MGH Imaging's The Radiology Times.
Beatrice de Gelder's research into "blindsight" -- the ability to sense objects using the brain's primitive, subcortical visual system -- was covered by several major news outlets last December, including The New York Times, NPR, The London Times and The Washington Post
The Martinos Center's Reisa Sperling is featured in "Advances in Brain Imaging," one of the online segments accompanying HBO's "The Alzheimer's Project"
The Good Morning America segment "Cutting Edge: Inside the Brain" features Bruce Rosen and includes appearances by other Martinos Center researchers
The HBO series "The Alzheimer's Project" spotlights research conducted in the Center

Sept. 12-13 Friends at MIT are helping to organize a 'Young Investigator Meet' geared towards young PIs, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students (those nearing graduation) interested in pursuing an academic career in India in the field of healthcare. View a poster for the event. Or visit the sponsor's Facebook group page.

Fischl, B., Stevens, A. A., Rajendran, N., Yeo, B. T., Greve, D. N., Van Leemput, K., Polimeni, J. R., Kakunoori, S., Buckner, R. L., Pacheco, J., Salat, D. H., Melcher, J., Frosch, M. P., Hyman, B. T., Grant, P. E., Rosen, B. R., van der Kouwe, A. J., Wiggins, G. C., Wald, L. L. and Augustinack, J. C. (2009). "Predicting the location of entorhinal cortex from MRI." Neuroimage 47(1): 8-17. (PubMed Entry)
Van Leemput, K., Bakkour, A., Benner, T., Wiggins, G., Wald, L. L., Augustinack, J., Dickerson, B. C., Golland, P. and Fischl, B. (2009). "Automated segmentation of hippocampal subfields from ultra-high resolution in vivo MRI." Hippocampus 19(6): 549-57. (PubMed Entry)
Kolster, H., Mandeville, J. B., Arsenault, J. T., Ekstrom, L. B., Wald, L. L. and Vanduffel, W. (2009). "Visual field map clusters in macaque extrastriate visual cortex." J Neurosci 29(21): 7031-9. (PubMed Entry)
Kensinger, E. A. (2009). "Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion." Emot Rev 1(2): 99-113. (PubMed Entry)
Kensinger, E. A. (2009). "How emotion affects older adults' memories for event details." Memory 17(2): 208-19. (PubMed Entry)

The collection of SPM8-based programs that will be offered July 19-24 (and again October 4-9) will now include a one-day "Getting Started" session. More information can be found here.
Registration is now open for the NIRS-DOT Visiting Fellowship Program
We are still accepting registrations for Functional MRI Visiting Fellowship: A Five Day Intensive Introduction

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