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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 the end of the year.
News Release: Harvard Catalyst Imaging Consortium receives ARRA stimulus award
News Release: Getting to the bottom of emotion stereotypes
An image from a study by Reza Rajimehr and Roger Tootell is featured on the cover of the September 9 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study is reported in the same issue.
News Release: Emerging technique contributes to fight against breast cancer
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.

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.
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

Oct. 16 "Mapping the Brain with Diffusion Tensor Imaging - A Hands-On Workshop by the National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing (NA-MIC)," a a Satellite event at the Society for Neurosciences meeting in Chicago, brought to you by Martinos faculty members Randy Gollub and Anastasia Yendiki. The workshop will take place from 8:30am to 5pm on Friday, Oct. 16. Visit the associated web page details.

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Custo, A., Boas, D. A., Tsuzuki, D., Dan, I., Mesquita, R., Fischl, B., Grimson, W. E. and Wells, W., 3rd (2010). "Anatomical atlas-guided diffuse optical tomography of brain activation." Neuroimage 49(1): 561-567. (PubMed Entry)
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The Photon Migration Imaging Lab is pleased to announce the 2010 dates for the NIRS-DOT Visiting Fellowship Program. The course will be held on October 14 and 15 next year.

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