Martinos Center Students
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Vijayanand Alagappan (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Larry Wald (Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D.; Tufts University
Year Entered: 2005
Research Topic: B1 inhomogeneity correction in high-field MRI
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Elissa Aminoff (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Moshe Bar (Harvard Medical School, MGH); Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D in Psychology (Cognition, Brain & Behavior); Harvard University
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Research Topic: Object recognition and false memory
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Jessica Andrews-Hanna (E-mail) (Webpage)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Randy Buckner (Harvard University; MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D in Psychology (Cognition, Brain & Behavior); Harvard University
Year Entered: 2006
Research Topic: Analysis of large-scale brain networks across the lifespan
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Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Giorgio Bonmassar (Harvard Medical School, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering; Tufts University
Year Entered: 2003
Research Topic: Simultaneous EEG and high-fields MRI
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Surina Basho (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Maria Mody (Harvard Medical School, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D in Applied Child Development; Tufts University
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Research Topic: Neural basis of phonologic-semantic relations in children with dyslexia
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Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Elfar Adalsteinsson
Degree Program: M.D./Ph.D
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Research Topic: Arterial Spin Labeling MRI
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Ariel Brown (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Larry Seidman (Harvard Medical School, MGH); Marlene Oscar Berman (Boston University School of Medicine)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience (Boston University School of Medicine, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences)
Year Entered: 2004
Research Topic: Functional Genetic Imaging in ADHD
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Thackery Brown (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Chantal Stern (Boston University, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Psychology (Brain, Behavior, and Cognition); Boston University
Year Entered: 2007
Research Topic: Episodic and working memory function in healthy and clinical populations
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Elizabeth Chua (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, MGH); Reisa Sperling (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Psychology; Harvard University
Year Entered: 2003
Research Topic: Neural underpinnings of memory and metamemory
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Maureen Glessner Courtney (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Chantal Stern (Boston University, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Psychology (Brain, Behavior, and Cognition); Boston University
Year Entered: 2003
Research Topic: HIV-associated structural changes in the brain
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Marianna Eddy (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Phil Holcomb
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology; Tufts University
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Research Topic: Object recognition; masked repetition priming; EEG/fMRI combination development
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Leeland Ekstrom (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Wim Vanduffel (Harvard Medical School, MGH); Bruce Rosen (Harvard Medical School, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Radiological Sciences; Joint Program in MIT's HST / Nuclear Science & Engineering
Year Entered: 2003
Research Topic: Combining electrical microstimulation and fMRI in awake, behaving macaques
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Britt Carlson Emerton (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Lauren R. Moo, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; David Gansler, PhD, Suffolk University
Degree Program: PhD in Clinical Psychology (Neuropsychology), Suffolk University
Year Entered: 2006
Research Topic: Projects with Dr. Moo include language and memory research in epilepsy patients and controls. Projects with Dr. Gansler will center on VBM methods and behavioral measures.
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Terry A. Gaige (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Richard Gilbert (MIT)
Degree Program: M.S. in Electrical Engineering; MIT
Year Entered: 2005
Research Topic: Structure-function relationships in muscle with crossing fiber architecture using diffusion MRI
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Avniel Ghuman (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Moshe Bar (Harvard Medical School, MGH); Bruce Rosen (Harvard Medical School, MGH)
Degree Program: Biophysics; Harvard University
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Research Topic: The cortical and behavioral correlates of predictive cognition
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Camil Jreige (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Eric Miller (Northeastern University), David Boas (Harvard Medical School, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D.; Northeastern University
Year Entered: 2006
Research Topic: Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT)
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Richard Lin (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Giorgio Bonmassar (Harvard Medical School, MGH)
Degree Program: MIT
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Research Topic: Electrical impedance spectroscopy
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Lisa Lucia (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Haline Schendan (Tufts University, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology; Tufts University
Year Entered: 2005
Research Topic: Visual object cognition
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Mentor/Thesis Advisor: David Somers (Boston University)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Neuroscience; Boston University
Year Entered: 2005
Research Topic: Attention and working memory in vision and audition
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Thomas Nommer (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Bruce Fischl (Harvard Medical School, MGH); Brad Dickerson (Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital, MGH)
Degree Program: Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France (completing an internship at the Martinos Center)
Year Entered: 2004 (ENPC)
Research Topic: Computer science - performing functional averaging in Freesurfer by adapting the existing morph tools
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Yakeel T. Quiroz (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Chantal Stern (Boston University, MGH)
Degree Program: Psychology (Brain, Behavior, and Cognition); Boston University
Year Entered: 2006
Research Topic: The brain mechanisms underlying semantic memory & verbal working memory
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Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Brian Bacskai (Harvard Medical School)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Year Entered: 2004
Research Topic: Optical diagnostics for Alzheimer's disease
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Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Maria Mody (Harvard Medical School, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology
Year Entered: 2002
Research Topic: Pediatric neuroimaging of pictorial reasons
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Justin Lee Vincent (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Randy Buckner (Harvard University, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Psychology; Harvard University
Year Entered: 2006
Research Topic: Spontaneous BOLD activity; neural systems underlying episodic memory
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Daniel Wehner (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Maria Mody (Harvard Medical School, MGH)
Degree Program: Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology
Year Entered: 2001
Research Topic: Developmental neuroimaging (MEG, EEG) of spoken language processing in children with and without reading difficulties
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E. Courtenay Wilson (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Jennifer Melcher (Harvard Medical School)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Year Entered: 2002
Research Topic: Neural mechanisms of audio-tactile integration and auditory stream segregation using fMRI and psychophysics
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Thomas Witzel (E-mail)
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Larry Wald (Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, MGH)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology
Year Entered: 2003
Research Topic: Quiet functional imaging techniques for exploration of auditory cortex
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Mentor/Thesis Advisor: Bruce Fischl (Harvard Medical School, MGH)
Degree Program: Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology
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Research Topic: Neuroanatomical structure-based on MRI
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Ulas Ziyan
Mentor/Thesis Advisor: David Tuch; Eric Grimson (MIT)
Degree Program: Ph.D. in EECS; MIT
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Research Topic: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) segmentation
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