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The OHBM Website has moved!

8/26/2024

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping website has moved!

This website has legacy content, but please look to the new website for up to date content on the Blog, Podcast, and Brain Bites (lay media) pages: https://www.ohbm-com.com/. 

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OHBM Kids Live Review: What we can learn from 2023 event organizers

2/7/2024

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Author: Fernanda H. P. de Moraes, Kangjoo Lee, and Julia W. Y. Kam
Editors: Simon Steinkamp, Yohan Yee, Kevin Sitek, Elisa Guma

Learn about the 2023 OHBM Kids Live Review - a series interactive events engaging children with neuroscience

The 2023 OHBM Kids Live Review was the largest event since its first edition in 2021. What initially began as an opportunity for kids to review a manuscript specifically written for kids (e.g. 8–14 years old) in front of a live audience ultimately reached the broader goal of encouraging kids to pursue science while engaging in scientific outreach with a non-standard audience for researchers. In this one-hour event, a member of OHBM gives a short scientific research presentation in their native language, followed by a live Q&A session, in which children can freely ask questions about the presentation, fundamentals of neuroscience, or scientific careers. Last year’s event reached more than 1000 children around the world across 16 live sessions in 11 languages (English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional and Simplified Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish). This year (2024), we officially renamed this series of events as the “Brain Mappers of Tomorrow” (BMT).

Dr. Kangjoo Lee, the lead of the 2023 initiative and the 2024 chair of the OHBM Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (DIC), interviewed three local event organizers of hugely successful events. The interview aims to help future organizers of the event, to understand what worked and what could be improved, and what the advantages are of presenting their work in this format. First, we interviewed Flavie Detcheverry, who organized the in-person event during the OHBM Annual Meeting 2023 in Montréal, Canada. Due to the city's bilingual status, the event was held in both French and English. For this event, we collaborated with the journal Frontiers for Young Minds (FYM), whose target audience is kids and adolescents: Several young reviewers provided critical feedback for the presenters who submitted their manuscript for publication at this journal. We also interviewed Dr. Isotta Rigoni, who held two live events in schools in Italy, the organizer's homeland. Finally, Dr. Victor Hugo Souza organized a live event for more than 500 kids in Brazil, with multiple schools engaging remotely with the organizers, with a presentation about the brain and the movements followed by Q&A. ​
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Figure 1. The OHBM Kids Live Review organizers interviewed: (left) Flavie Detcheverry, who presented at the in-person French/English session during the OHBM Annual Meeting 2023; (middle) Dr. Isotta Rigoni, co-organizer and co-presenter for the in-person Italian session; and (right) Dr. Victor Hugo Souza, one of the presenters/organizers for the remote Portuguese sessions.

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Interview with Eduarda Gervini Zampieri Centeno, 2023 winner of the Brain Structure and Function Award

2/6/2024

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Author: Alexander Holmes
Editors: Elisa Guma, Elizabeth DuPre, Simon Steinkamp

Eduarda tells us about her work developing open-source Python pipelines.

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Eduarda Gervini Zampieri Centeno is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at the Bordeaux Neurocampus and a part-time Research Assistant at Amsterdam UMC (Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum; VUmc). Passionate about Open Science, her PhD thesis focuses on developing open-source Python pipelines for songbird research and understanding the brain correlates behind vocal learning. At the VUmc, Eduarda promotes and implements Open Science practices within her team and coordinates a working group for departmental transition toward this framework. 

Before her PhD, Eduarda completed a 1-year Master's thesis project, applying Python-based topological data analysis to resting-state fMRI datasets from glioma patients. At the end of this intership, she compiled and published her experience as a practical tutorial freely available here. This work culminated in her paper titled “A hands-on tutorial on network and topological neuroscience” and for this work, Eduarda received the Brain Structure and Function award at the 2023

Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) annual meeting, held in Montreal (amongst other awards 
[1], [2]). 

Eduarda also has experience hosting ReproducibiliTea journal clubs in Bordeaux and Amsterdam; she has organized the first Bordeaux Neurocampus Open Science Workshop, is a member of the Open Science Community Amsterdam board (OSCA), and recently became the Open Science Expert representing the Netherlands at Knowledge Exchange. Read on to hear more from Eduarda!
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Interview with Dr. Xi-Nian Zuo, 2023 OHBM Class of Fellows

2/1/2024

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Author: Yohan Yee
Editors: Elisa Guma, Elizabeth Dupre

A conversation with Dr. Xi-Nian Zuo, a 2023 OHBM Class Fellow, about his career trajectory. 

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​Each year, OHBM honors eminent brain mappers with a Fellow of OHBM distinction. These individuals have “demonstrated academic and intellectual leadership in the disciplines represented by the Society over an extended period of time” and have the right to include FOHBM among their credentials. In 2023, three outstanding individuals were appointed as OHBM Fellows, including Dr. Xi-Nian Zuo.
 
(We have also interviewed the other 2023 Fellows of OHBM: Dr. Aina Puce and, previously, Dr. Karen Berman, along with other award winners as part of the 2023 Award Series).
 
Dr. Xi-Nian Zuo is a Professor at Beijing Normal University and Director of the Developmental Population Neuroscience Research Center, where he conducts population-level and lifespan neuroimaging research. He leads or contributes to several large-scale neuroscience efforts, including the Consortium for Reliability and Reproducibility (CoRR), Chinese Color Nest Project (CCNP), Brain Consortium for Reproducibility, Replicability and Reliability (3R-BRAIN), Chinese Imaging Genetics study (CHIMGEN), Chinese Human Connectome Project (CHCP), and Depression Imaging Research Consortium (DIRECT).
 
Dr. Zuo trained as an applied mathematician before jumping into the field of human brain mapping. Understanding the profound importance of quantifying reliability in measuring our brains’ function, his background provided a perfect basis to examine human spontaneous brain activity (SBA), a major topic of his research. His journey with OHBM started at the 14th Annual Meeting (Melbourne, 2008). At the time, he was just about to finish his first postdoctoral fellowship at Beijing Normal University and Chinese Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Professor Yu-Feng Zang and Professor Tianzi Jiang. He credits that meeting with providing an excellent platform for junior researchers to communicate their career development aspirations, and making possible his next postdoctoral position at New York University (NYU), where he trained in the field of pediatric neuroscience with Michael Milham and Francisco Xavier Castellanos.
 
In this interview, Dr. Zuo reflects on his career and OHBM, and provides a vision for the future.


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Interview with Dr. Aina Puce, 2023 OHBM Class of Fellows

1/23/2024

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Author: Naomi Gaggi
Editors: Elisa Guma, Elizabeth DuPre, Simon Steinkamp, Lavinia Uscatescu, Kevin Sitek

Dr. Puce shares her journey as part of the OHBM community, including her service as OHBM Chair from 2020-2022.

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Dr. Aina Puce is an Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor of Psychological and Brain Science at Indiana University Bloomington. At the 2023 Annual Meeting, she was honored as a Fellow of OHBM for her contributions to the society and her outstanding academic and intellectual leadership. Her research career spans social neuroscience, multimodal neuroimaging (including electroencephalography [EEG] and magnetoencephalography [MEG]), and best practices in neuroimaging. Her book, MEG-EEG Primer—co-authored with Riitta Hari was just released in its second edition in 2023. Her current research focuses on the neural basis of social cognition and nonverbal communication. 


Dr. Puce has been very involved in the OHBM organization, including chairing the society through the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and she has been attending the annual meetings since 1995. In this interview, she talks about her history with OHBM and the positions she had, including her service as OHBM Chair from 2020-2022. She talks about how she navigated several obstacles and changes throughout this time. Dr. Puce lays out lessons learned throughout her career and during her time in the OHBM community—chiefly, that people matter. She highlights how working with her colleagues with whom she has cultivated mutual respect in both scientific and OHBM-related endeavors has been one of the highlights of her career and a major part of her OHBM tenure. She talks about her research and how she is developing a new direction for her work, including integrating her passion for art into science. We are grateful to Dr. Puce for her continued commitment to OHBM, and for taking the time to participate in this blog post. If you’re curious about how OHBM managed during the pandemic and the consequential major changes, her interview has the answers!


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Interview with the SPM Team, winner of the Open Science Award 2023

1/22/2024

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Author: Elisa Guma
​Editors: simon steinkamp, Elizabeth dupre

Learn more from the SPM team about open science.

PictureQueen Square, home of the FIL and other neuroscience / neurology departments, in the winter snow from a previous year (courtesy of Peter Zeidman)
Next in our award winner interview series, we had the chance to hear from this year’s Open Science Award winner, the Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) Team based out of the Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL) at University College London. SPM is a free, open source, and widely used software suite designed for the analysis of brain imaging data across various modalities including PET, fMRI, EEG, MEG, and SPECT. Additionally, SPM provides different analysis approaches for neuroimaging data that go beyond the classic General Linear Model (GLM), such as Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM) and Voxel Based Morphometry (VBM).  SPM was first developed by Karl Friston (see an interview with him from 2017 on this blog) for the statistical analysis of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data. Since then, it has gone through several technical improvements to reflect theoretical advances in the field (here is a history on their website and a retrospective piece about the software by Dr. John Ashburner). The current software version can be found here. In addition to maintaining and improving the software, the SPM team also offers in-person courses to help neuroimagers learn how to use their tools. 

Since the early 1990s, SPM has been at the forefront of open science—even before the notion of open science was widespread in the neuroimaging community. Indeed, Dr. Karl Friston used to give away the software on floppy disks to those who asked; now it is freely available for download. Additionally, the SPM team has been leading substantial efforts to teach SPM and its methods by providing courses or publishing tutorials.

We are grateful to Peter Zeidman, Olivia Kowalczyk and the SPM team for being willing to answer a few questions about their work. Read on to learn more about the SPM team and their thoughts on open science!


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What language does your dog speak? How dog brains process language

1/16/2024

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Author: Alex Albury
Edited by: Elisa guma, kevin sitek

Lay summary of article by Cuaya et al. about language representation in the dog brain.

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If you have a pet, chances are you talk to them, though you may not expect them to actually understand you. But have you ever stopped to think about just how much your furry friends might be listening? Researchers in the Neuroethology of Communication Lab at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary set out to find out just how much dogs understand from human language. To do this, they conducted a study examining what happens in a dog’s brain when they hear different languages.

Although language acquisition has been extensively studied for decades, we are still far from understanding how language learning happens in the brain. Some researchers have taken more of a comparative approach to this question by investigating language cognition in species other than humans, including macaques, parrots, and man’s best friend, dogs.

Language learning is believed to rely heavily on exposure; that is, we learn by hearing. A popular theory of language acquisition is statistical learning. Under this theory, the brain is viewed as a pattern detection machine that is constantly learning the regularities of the world around us. In language, these regularities include aspects of speech such as tone, rhythm, and word boundaries.


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Interview with Dr. Laura V. Cuaya, winner of the NeuroImage Editor’s Choice Award 2023

1/16/2024

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Author: Kevin Sitek
Editors: Elizabeth Dupre, Alex Albury, elisa guma

Interview with Dr. Cuaya, winner of the Neuroimage Editor's Choice award.

If you have pet dogs, you surely know how familiar they become with the sound of your voice. But can dogs actually tell the difference between the language you speak with them and other languages they’ve never heard before? Dr. Laura V. Cuaya set out to find out, and her findings in her paper “Speech naturalness detection and language representation in the dog brain” won her the Editor’s Choice Award from NeuroImage at the 2023 OHBM Annual Meeting. 

In her paper, Dr. Cuaya found unique patterns of brain activity in dogs when they were hearing voices in a familiar vs. unfamiliar language. The differences were stronger in older dogs, suggesting that more exposure to a particular language drives stronger representation of voices in that language in dogs. You can read a more in-depth summary of her paper here.

Dr. Cuaya is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna in Austria. Much of her work uses functional MRI to investigate how sensory stimulation—looking at faces, hearing voices, and touching objects—is represented in the brains of both humans and dogs. Before moving to Austria, Dr. Cuaya conducted research at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary and at the Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Querétaro, México.

Read on to learn about Dr. Cuaya’s experience working with canine participants in neuroimaging and what we should take away from her research!

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What can 12 minutes of fMRI tell you about your fetus’s brain?

1/12/2024

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Author: Lavinia Carmen Uscătescu
Editors: Elisa Guma, Elizabeth Dupre, Kevin sitek

Lay summary of publication by Ji et al (2022):  “Fetal behavior during MRI changes with age and relates to network dynamics”

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That fetuses move inside the womb is nothing new, but how these early movement patterns could predict neonatal health is only beginning to be understood. So far, generally reduced intra-uterine movement has been associated with preterm birth and mild language delay, while more active fetuses have shown enhanced neonatal brain development. It could therefore prove useful to learn whether specific fetal movement patterns could be used as early indicators of potential developmental delays.
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Researchers at the New York University School of Medicine have set out to decode the hidden information in fetal movement patterns. Their paper, led by Dr. Lanxin Ji,  “Fetal behavior during MRI changes with age and relates to network dynamics”, was awarded the Human Brain Mapping Editor's Choice Award at the 2023 OHBM Annual Meeting. Check out our interview with Dr. Ji here!


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Interview with Dr. Lanxin Ji, winner of the Human Brain Mapping Editor’s Choice Award 2023

1/2/2024

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Author: Elisa Guma
Editors: Elizabeth dupre, kevin sitek

Interview with Dr. Lanxin Ji

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Next in our award winner interview series is Lanxin Ji, who received the Human Brain Mapping Editor’s Choice Award for her paper titled “Fetal behavior during MRI changes with age and relates to network dynamics”. Dr. Ji is currently a postdoctoral fellow at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine in the department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry where she leverages fetal and infant brain imaging data to better understand brain development in the earliest phases of life.

Prior to her work at NYU, she earned her PhD degree in Biomedical Imaging from Tsinghua University, which included a one year fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. During this time, she developed data-driven methods to measure neural compensation (i.e., the way in which the brain reorganizes itself in older adults to compensate for neural deterioration), and she studied the effects of exercise and cognitive training on brain plasticity over time in older adults. 


We are grateful that Dr. Ji was willing to answer a few questions about her work. To read a lay summary of the research paper for which she won this award, please click here. Read on to learn more about Dr. Ji’s research!


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Making Connections: Molecular and connectomic contributions to disease and disorder in the human brain

12/19/2023

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Author: ​Alexander Albury

Lay summary of article by Hansen JY et al. 2022 examining relationship between multimodally infomred brain connectivity across disorders

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It's easy to picture the brain as a tangle of wires, criss-crossing and carrying information in all directions. But there's order in the chaos of our brains, with each of these connections serving a purpose by facilitating communication between the many cooperating brain areas necessary for complex behaviors. And in such a densely connected network, few things happen in isolation. Just as this broad connectivity serves to support the transportation of resources and information through the network, it also makes the brain more susceptible to disorders that can disrupt this delicate system.

A multidisciplinary group of researchers set out to investigate how much neurological disorders are caused by factors limited to a specific brain region, versus how much they depend on variability and abnormalities in larger brain networks.

In a paper published in Nature in 2022, Justine Y. Hansen and colleagues examined the relationship between connectivity—how parts of the brain connect to each other—and molecular vulnerability—the characteristics of individual cells in specific brain regions, in the presentation and progression of 13 common diseases and disorders, including ADHD, schizophrenia, depression, and epilepsy.


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Interview with Justine Y Hansen, winner of the Karl-Zilles Award in 2023

12/19/2023

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Author: Simon Steinkamp
Editors: Elisa Guma, Elizabeth Dupre, & kevin sitek

Interview with Justine Y Hansen, winner of the 2023 Karl-Zilles Award 

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Next up in our award-winner interview series is Justine Y. Hansen, who received the 2023 
Karl Zilles Award in Integrative Neuroscience in 2023. This award was introduced at the OHBM 2022 annual meeting in Glasgow in memory of Karl Zilles, to honor his pioneering work integrating modern neuroanatomical approaches with multi-modal in-vivo neuroimaging. The award series recognizes PhD students and postdoctoral fellows who are continuing in this tradition, developing new and innovative approaches for examining neuroanatomy 

​Justine Y. Hansen does just that. In her impressive work, she thoroughly investigates how neurotransmitter distributions shape cortical architecture across many modalities and spatial scales. She led a huge collaborative open science effort to collate positron emission tomography (PET) data across research groups, resulting in data from more than 1200 healthy individuals, mapping 19 different receptors and transporters across 9 neurotransmitter systems. Using multiple imaging modalities, such as functional and diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI, dMRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG), she shows that the neurotransmitter receptor density maps follow known structural and functional organizational principles. Further, she shows that the receptor density maps are associated with patterns of cortical atrophy across 12 different psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. 

​This study, published in Nature Neuroscience, has been widely recognized and was awarded a Brain Star award by the Canadian Association for Neuroscience in 2022. Justine extended this work to examine how cortical maps of gene expressions, neurotransmitter identity, metabolism, and myelination relate to cortical abnormalities in 13 neurodevelopmental, neurological, or psychiatric conditions (published here; check out the lay summary of this article on our blog!). She further leveraged gene expression and receptor density mapping (using PET or autoradiography) to assess whether gene expression measures can be used to estimate neurotransmitter receptor/transporter densities in the cortex (in this publication). Finally, in her newest work, she investigated how the brainstem, an often overlooked part of the brain, integrates into the larger cortical architecture.

Justine completed her bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience in 2020 at McGill University and is currently a PhD student in the Network Neuroscience Lab led by Bratislav Misic at the Montreal Neurological Institute. We are grateful that Justine was willing to answer a few questions about her work and research trajectory. Read on to learn more!


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Education in Neuroimaging Award - Prof. Janaina Mourao-Miranda

12/6/2023

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Elisa Guma & The Communications Committee

Interview with Prof. Janaina Mourao-Miranda, winner of the 2023 Education in Neuroimaging Award

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At the 2023 annual OHBM meeting, Prof. Janaina Mourao-Miranda received the Education in Neuroimaging Award for her significant contribution to education and training in the field of neuroimaging. Prof. Mourao-Miranda leads the Machine Learning Neuroimaging Lab at the Centre for Medical Imaging Computing (CMIC) in the Computer Science Department at the University College London (UCL). Prof. Mourao-Miranda received her bachelor’s in Electronic Engineering at Federal university of Para (Brazil). She then pursued a MSc in Computer Science and a Ph.D in Neuroscience at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Next, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Neural Computation at Siemens, Munich, Germany followed by one at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. After her second postdoctoral experience she was awarded two prestigious Wellcome Trust fellowships (Research Career Development and Senior Research) which enabled her to establish a research group at UCL.

Her group applies pattern recognition and machine learning to neuroimaging data with the goal of uncovering the relationship between brain and behaviour. One of the goals of her research program is to develop novel machine learning models to investigate the complex relationships between neuroimaging data and multidimensional descriptions of mental health disorder in hopes of improving understanding, diagnosis, and prognosis for these conditions. 
We had the pleasure of asking Prof. Mourao-Miranda a few questions about her work, research trajectory, and any advice she has for junior trainees. Read on to learn more! You can also check out our previous interview with Prof. Mourao-Miranda showcasing her OHBM 2022 Keynote lecture here. ​


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Early Career Investigator Award: Dr. Catie Chang

12/5/2023

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Elisa Guma & the communications committee

Interview with Dr. Catie Chang, 2023 Early Career Investigator Awardee

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At the 2023 Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting, held in Montreal, several outstanding scientists were recognized for their contributions to the field. Dr. Catie Chang was awarded the Early Career Investigator Award for her significant contributions to the field of human brain mapping. Dr. Chang is a Sally and Dave Hopkins Faculty Fellow and an Assistant Professor in the departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University. She received her BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, after which she pursued an MSc and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in the Radiological Sciences Lab. Next, she completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH Intramural Research Program). 

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lab fosters a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative research environment, bringing together scientists with expertise in engineering, computer science, neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. Together, they focus on advancing functional neuroimaging methods to increase the understanding of human brain activity in health and disease. More precisely, using fMRI and EEG, they focus on understanding how time-varying changes in brain function relate to physiological and cognitive processes.

We had the pleasure of asking Dr. Chang a few questions about her work, research trajectory, and any advice she has for junior trainees. Read on to learn more!


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OHBM AWARD WINNERS - 2023

11/27/2023

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Elisa Guma & the Communications Committee

Congratulations to the OHBM 2023 award winners .

Each year, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping recognizes members of the field of human brain imaging for their outstanding contributions to the field. We would like to congratulate this year’s awardees, who were recognized at the 2023 OHBM Annual Meeting. 
Over the next few weeks we will be showcasing their contributions to the field through a series of blog posts.

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award recipients are listed below:
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OHBM Diversity and Inclusivity Committee 2023-2024 Election Results

11/21/2023

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Kangjoo Lee, Lucina Q. Uddin, Rosanna Olsen on behalf of the OHBM Diversity and Inclusivity Committee ​

Overview of DIC committee 2023-2024 election procedure and results

The Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (DIC) at OHBM is dedicated to cultivating a diverse, engaged and inclusive international community of scientists conducting human brain research. To achieve this goal, DIC members collaborate to formulate a comprehensive plan to promote inclusivity across OHBM’s activities. The DIC’s approach involves investigating and implementing best practices suggested by current research on fostering inclusive environments. The committee develops new policies and programs aimed at creating a more inclusive environment, including leadership, education, and mentorship. These efforts are conducted in close collaboration with other OHBM committees and Special Interest Groups.  Comprising 9-15 members, including the Chair and Chair-Elect, the DIC plays a pivotal role in shaping OHBM’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity. In the autumn of 2023, the DIC conducted two significant elections to further advance its mission.

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Sustainability and Environmental Action SIG at OHBM 2023

10/12/2023

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​Authors: Winson Yang, Irene Faiman, Peer Herholz, Nick Souter, Nikhil Bhagwat & Polona Kalc on behalf of the SEA-SIG
Lead Reviewer: Simon Steinkamp

SEA-SIG initiatives at the OHBM 2023 annual meeting.

OHBM's Sustainability and Environmental Action Special Interest Group (SEA-SIG) is a growing group of neuroimaging scientists endeavouring to reduce the environmental impact of (neuroimaging) research and promoting sustainable practices in our community.
We are active in three main areas:
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The Annual Meeting Working Group advises OHBM on reducing the carbon footprint of the Annual Meeting. By assessing the environmental impact of the conference every year, we work toward more sustainable meeting models.

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The Neuroimaging Research Pipelines Working Group brings together developers with a green future in mind. We're working on tools and ways for tracking and optimising energy costs of computational processes.

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The Education and Outreach Working Group provides educational resources and disseminates them through community events. Our aim is to spark interest in sustainability-related topics in current and future neuroscientists.


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OHBM Women Faculty Launch+: A Digest and Lessons from Our First In-person Meeting at OHBM 2023 in Montreal

9/21/2023

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Audrey Fan

OHBM Women Faculty Launch at 2023 Annual Meeting in Monreal

Lead reviewer: Lavinia Uscatescu
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The primary mission of the OHBM Women Faculty Special Interest Group (WF-SIG) is to help women principal investigators (PIs) connect and network with each other. Peer-to-peer networking is an effective, low-cost intervention that encourages female neuroscientists to collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams and overcome gender-related challenges (1). Our official in-person launch event at this year's annual OHBM meeting marks the first step towards connecting and empowering women-led research teams in the neuroimaging community.
 
Logo Design: Jingyuan Chen, Arts Officer
At the launch event, we unveiled the new logo that was crafted for the OHBM Women Faculty SIG by our Arts Officer, Dr. Jingyuan Chen (Assistant Professor, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging).


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Best Practices in Scientific Writing with Dr. Bradley Voytek: A Workshop Hosted by the Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group

8/29/2023

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Naomi Gaggi

Scientific writing workshop by Bradley Voytek, hosted by the SP-SIG

On April 27th, 2023, OHBM’s Student–Postdoc Special Interest Group hosted a workshop on best practices in scientific writing with Dr. Bradley Voytek. Dr. Voytek is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science, the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, and the Neurosciences Graduate Program at UC San Diego. He is a strong advocate for science communication and outreach, and he has engaged with audiences as diverse as Scientific American, National Public Radio, and San Diego Comic-Con. The event covered a range of topics related to scientific writing, the different forms of scientific outreach, and ways to frame our scientific work for communicating with the public. Overall, there were three main takeaways from his talk: 1) practice communicating your science and engaging different audiences, 2) embrace your journey, and 3) find your niche, have fun with your work, and dive right in!
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OHBM 2023 Public Lectures In Montréal on July 18

7/17/2023

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Communications Committee Lay Media team

Invitation to public events on brain imaging science (English and French language)

On Tuesday, July 18, local neuroscientists from Quebec universities will speak about the fascinating research on brain imaging. Talks will be delivered in English and French, and are free to the general public.

More details are provided below. You are invited to attend and to share this invitation with anyone who might be interested in this event.

Place: Grande Bibliothèque (475 Boul. de Maisonneuve E, Montréal, at Berri-UQAM metro station)
Date: Tuesday July 18, 2023
Time (talks in French): 6:00 pm (doors open at 5:30 pm)
Time (talks in English): 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:30 pm)
Tickets: free, but limited numbers available! Register quickly using the link below.

Register for French lectures: imagerieducerveau.eventbrite.ca
Register for English lectures: brainimaging.eventbrite.ca

Talks are aimed at the general public, and for each language session, there will be three talks of around 20 minutes, along with a Q&A session after.

Talks in English will be given by:
Dr. Alan Evans (A hitch-hiker's guide to mapping the brain)
Dr. Emily Coffey (Altering sleep and memory with sound)
Dr. Robert Zatorre (The neuroscience of music and why we love it)

Talks in French will be given by:
Dr. Sylvain Baillet (Tempête dans la boîte crânienne !)
Dr. Delphine Raucher-Chéné (Apports de la neuroimagerie en psychiatrie : en quoi étudier le cerveau nous aide à mieux comprendre les problèmes de santé mentale ?)
Dr. Anne Gallagher (Toute la lumière sur le développement du cerveau)


Invitation à un événement publique sur la science de l'imagerie du cerveau.

Le mardi 18 juillet, des neuroscientifiques d'universités québécoises présenteront les recherches liées au fascinant domaine de l'imagerie du cerveau. Les conférences seront données en anglais et en français, et sont gratuites pour le grand public.

Plus de détails sont fournis ci-dessous et dans les affiches ci-jointes. Vous êtes invités à y assister et à partager cette invitation avec toute personne susceptible d'être intéressée par cet événement.

Place : Grande Bibliothèque (475 Boul. de Maisonneuve E, Montréal, à la station de métro Berri-UQAM)
Date de l'événement : mardi 18 juillet 2023
Heure (conférences en français) : 18h00 (ouverture des portes à 17h30)
Heure (conférences en anglais) : 20h00 (ouverture des portes à 19h30)
Billets : gratuits, mais en nombre limité ! Enregistrez-vous rapidement en utilisant le site ci-dessous.

Billets pour les conférences en français : imagerieducerveau.eventbrite.ca
Billets pour les conférences en anglais : brainimaging.eventbrite.ca

Les conférences s'adressent au grand public et chaque session linguistique comprendra trois conférences d'environ 20 minutes, suivies d'une séance de questions-réponses.

Les conférences en français seront données par :
Dr. Sylvain Baillet ( Tempête dans la boîte crânienne ! )
Dre. Delphine Raucher-Chéné ( Apports de la neuroimagerie en psychiatrie : en quoi étudier le cerveau nous aide à mieux comprendre les problèmes de santé mentale ? )
Dre. Anne Gallagher ( Toute la lumière sur le développement du cerveau )

Les conférences en anglais seront données par :
Dr. Alan Evans ( A hitch-hiker's guide to mapping the brain )
Dre. Emily Coffey ( Altering sleep and memory with sound )
Dr. Robert Zatorre ( The neuroscience of music and why we love it )

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Committee and Special Interest Group activities at the 2023 OHBM Annual Meeting

7/17/2023

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OHBM's many committees and Special Interest Groups

Community-led events at #OHBM2023

The 2023 OHBM Annual Meeting is fast approaching! In addition to the fantastic scientific content organized by the Program Committee, many other committees and special interest groups (SIGs) host their own programs. At last year’s Annual Meeting in Glasgow, committees and SIGs hosted events on inclusivity, mentorship, art, and much more.

Read on to learn about upcoming committee and SIG events at OHBM 2023!

​And don't forget to check out our latest Neuroscience podcast episode, where Peter Bandettini and Alfie Wearn talk about these events! You can find it at your favorite podcast service here and on YouTube here.
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A Conversation with Bharat Biswal (OHBM 2023 Keynote Interview Pt. 8)

7/17/2023

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Rahul Gaurav & Naomi L. Gaggi

Looking at the past and future of functional connectivity

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Dr. Bharat B. Biswal is a distinguished professor in Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he serves as director for the Center for Brain Imaging and leads the Brain Connectivity Lab. He received his doctorate in biophysics from the Medical College of Wisconsin, following a masters from Michigan Technical University and a bachelors of science in electrical engineering from Utkal University in India. 

Dr. Biswal is well-known for his seminal work in functional connectivity and continues his research in brain connectivity and signal processing using MRI. He is also a familiar guest on the NeuroSalience Podcast, having been featured in Season 3, Episode 5 in conversation with his former labmate Dr. Peter Bandettini. 

In this interview, Rahul Gaurav and Naomi L. Gaggi talked with Dr. Biswal as a keynote speaker for the upcoming 2023 Organization for Human Brain Mapping Conference in Montreal, Canada. They cover his academic journey, his research, and the potential future of resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging.


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A Conversation with Xujun Duan (OHBM 2023 Keynote Interview #7)

7/12/2023

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Lavinia Uscătescu, with editing by Xinhui Li 

Capturing the complex activity of the social brain

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Dr. Xujun Duan is a professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. She obtained her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, with Dr. Vinod Menon as one of her supervisors and mentors. She has extensive research expertise with multimodal and computational neuroimaging methods, which she employs to study the social brain of people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). 

In her 2023 OHBM keynote address, she will highlight some of her recent results developing extensive neuroimaging and neurostimulation protocols in a population of autistic children. Using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), she stimulated structures of the social brain (i.e. the parts of the brain responsible for processing information related to social interactions and cues) and followed this up with both neuroimaging and clinical assessments. 
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In this interview, Dr. Xujun Duan discusses how she overcame the challenges of implementing a research protocol that would adequately capture the complex activity of the social brain, as well as the rewarding moments she enjoyed during this process. Additionally, she offers career advice for early stage researchers who plan on pursuing an academic path.


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A Conversation with Takafumi Minamimoto (OHBM 2023 Keynote Interview Series Pt. 6)

7/10/2023

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Elisa Guma and Kevin Sitek

Using a variety of methods to map circuits in the primate brain

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Takafumi Minamimoto is team leader of the Neural Systems and Circuits Research Group and deputy director of the Department of Functional Brain Imaging at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology in Chiba, Japan. His research focuses on the interaction between motivation, emotion, and memory in the brain of non-human primates.
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To address these questions, Dr. Minamimoto uses a range of methods including neuroimaging with functional MRI and PET as well as chemogenetic techniques such as Designer Receptors Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADDs), which are a class of proteins that allow scientists to control neural activity in awake, freely moving animals. 


In this interview, Elisa Guma and Kevin Sitek talked with Dr. Minamimoto about his research program, the path he took to get there, and what we can expect from his 2023 Keynote address.

Read on to learn more!


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A Conversation with Aviv Mezer (OHBM 2023 Keynote Interview Series Pt. 5)

7/5/2023

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Alfie Wearn and Faruk Gulban

Exploring quantitative MRI and 'in vivo histology'

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Dr. Aviv Mezer is an Associate Professor at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Dr. Mezer’s lab is focused on mapping human brain structures during normal development and aging. In addition, it is focused on developing new approaches to characterize the structural changes associated with neurological disorders. Mezer’s main research tool is in vivo quantitative magnetic resonance imaging – qMRI. The Mezer lab is developing tools to biophysically explain the brain’s MRI signals at different levels and resolutions: from molecular local sources through cellular organization to the mapping of networks across the entire brain.

In this interview, we discuss the field of qMRI more broadly, touching upon the present and future interpretations of "in vivo histology." We also discuss Dr Mezer’s approach to mentorship, as well as the skills that would benefit future researchers in this field.
At OHBM 2023, Dr. Mezer will show us how combining multiple quantitative MRI measures can provide additional biological information about tissue composition and brain health.  
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You can find the video interview here and listen to the audio-only podcast version here (or on your podcast app of choice).

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