Graduate student opportunities in multimodal functional neuroimaging
We are seeking graduate students to participate in a Bioengineering Research Partnership to advance the analysis of multimodal functional neuroimaging data. A particular focus of our effort is to combine physiological and biophysical information combined to formulate a general state-space model which relates the imaging data recorded by electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and diffuse optical tomography (DOT). Using this model, we will develop and implement dynamic state-space solvers for the joint spatio-temporal inverse problem of functional brain imaging. Through this optimal fusion of multimodal data, we aim to gain greater insight into the spatial distribution and temporal orchestration of both spontaneous and evoked human brain activity.
This project is based at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and is a collaborative effort between experts in MEG/EEG, fMRI, optical imaging, and the mathematics of inverse problems and signal processing to develop and implement dynamic state-space solvers of the multimodal joint spatio-temporal inverse problem. The project leaders are David Boas, Emery Brown, Matti Hämäläinen, and Giorgio Bonmassar.
If interested, please contact David Boas, dboas@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu or Matti Hämäläinen, sh@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu.
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added 6/13/08
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Graduate student opportunities in cognitive neuroscience and spatiotemporal neuroimaging
Gina Kuperberg MD PhD is a faculty member of both the Martinos Center at Mass. General Hospital (Dept. of Psychiatry) and Tufts University (Dept. of Psychology). She has a joined lab that spans across the two institutions. The lab focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of thought and language in healthy individuals and in psychiatric disorders (particularly schizophrenia). We are using multimodal imaging techniques – cognitive event-related potentials (ERPs), magneto-encephalography (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) – to study both the temporal and spatial dimensions of cognition in the brain. We are interested in taking graduate students with some research experience in experimental psychology and/or fMRI and/or biomedical engineering and/or computer sciences, who are interested in exploring these questions.
For more information about the lab, please go to:
http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/kuperberglab/
For more information about the Psychology PhD program at Tufts, please go to:
http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/Grad_Program/graduate.html
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