The September Level 1 MRI Safety Training seminar dates have been announced. Please email Dr. Beyers ([email protected]) if you are interested in attending. The dates are Tuesday, September 2nd, and Monday, September 15th. You only have to attend one session. The sessions are held from 3:30-4:30pm at the AU MRI Research Center, located at 560…
Some of you have probably heard of President Obama’s BRAIN initiative. It’s basically a concerted (federally supported) effort aimed at figuring out the underpinnings of neurological and psychiatric diseases that have a strong brain basis, as well as trying to understand how a healthy brain works. Concurrently, there is an incredibly strong push to have…
I was just informed that Katie received an ‘Opportunities in Undergraduate Research in the College of Liberal Arts (OURCLA)’ Scholarship for the 2014-2015 school year. Katie will continue to investigate the functional and structural connectivity of the hypothalamus, a region of the brain that is notoriously difficult to image, but super important in maintaining the body’s…
On Thursday, March 6th, 2014, Ashley and I traveled to the annual SEPA conference in Nashville, TN. Ashley won first place in the CEPO Student Research Award competition for research on women and minorities. This competition was open to undergraduate and graduate students alike. The award came with a cash prize and recognition at the…
Most of you are familiar with my absolute love for dogs! There’s some really interesting research going on that looks at functional neuroimaging in awake canines…check it out by clicking here. Also, did you know that Auburn also does canine brain research? Check out this published article by my colleagues that looks at dog…
This week, we had a mixed bag of news: The good: We received word that one of our competitive internal grants received funding! This is a collaborative project with the Department of Human Development and Family Studies (Co-PIs with Dr. El-Sheikh & Dr. Erath) in the College of Human Sciences to look at the neurological and psychophysiological…
We were just informed that Ashley’s poster to the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) annual meeting won first place in the Committee on Equality of Professional Opportunity (CEPO) Student Award for Research on Minorities and Women competition. Say that 10 times fast! Ashley will present her paper on March 6th at 3pm in Nashville, TN. Ashley’s…
It’s been awhile since my last post – and it seems like my world’s been flipped upside down by a series of fun, challenging, and exciting life changes. In August, we moved to Alabama for my new job at Auburn University. It’s been a wonderful transition, and I’m ecstatic to be back in academia again.…
Happy to announce that our invited manuscript has been accepted at Neuropsychology Review. Special thanks to Dr. Sara Dolan at Baylor University for organizing and allowing me to participate on this paper. There are a lot of great articles published online (ahead of print) on the neurobehavioral and neurocognitive effects of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF),…
Meta-analytic connectivity modeling (MACM) of the caudate nucleus using the BrainMap database. Our article about the functional connectivity of the human caudate was recently accepted by NeuroImage, in an incredibly timely fashion (thank you to the Editors of that journal – viagra generic canada what a scientific treat)! This paper has relevance to clinical neuroscience…