THE MARTINOS CENTER IN THE SPOTLIGHT

September 29, 2009

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."

September 10, 2009

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.

August 19, 2009

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.

Also, Science News recently spotlighted a study of emotions and the visual system by the Martinos Center's Lisa Feldman Barrett and Moshe Bar.

June 18, 2009

Governor Patrick's June 4 visit to the Martinos Center, during which he toured the facility and reviewed the "Brain Bucket" technology developed here, is noted on page 4 of the May/June issue of MGH Imaging's The Radiology Times.

May 28, 2009

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. Watch video of one of the experiments here, courtesy of NPR.

May 12, 2009

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.

May 4, 2009

Yet another Good Morning America segment. "Cutting Edge: Inside the Brain" features Bruce Rosen and includes appearances by our own Thomas Benner and Aly Negreira. View a video of the segment here.

Also, the accompanying story on the ABC News website links to a 2007 Technology Review article about the same technology.

April 28, 2009

Don't miss a special HBO documentary series on Alzheimer's beginning on May 10 at 9pm. Research performed in the Martinos Center will be featured in one of the segments.

April 6, 2009

Bruce Rosen and others from the Center appeared in a recent Good Morning America segment: "Acupuncture for Kids." View a video of the segment here.