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A Conversation with Andreas Horn (OHBM 2023 Keynote Interview Series Pt. 4)

6/28/2023

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Johanna Bayer and ​LAVINIA ​CARMEN USCATESCU

Discussing deep brain stimulation and brain connectivity with Keynote presenter Andreas Horn

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Dr. Andreas Horn is a clinician-scientist with training in neuroimaging, movement disorders, and both invasive and noninvasive brain stimulation. He is the group leader of the transatlantic Network Stimulation Laboratory at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston and Charité – University Medicine Berlin. Dr. Horn’s research focuses on the development and improvement of methods to identify brain stimulation sites for studying network interactions and neuromodulation in the human brain. He is also the host of the podcast Stimulating Brains, focusing on brain stimulation.

In this interview with Dr. Horn, we explore how deep brain stimulation can be used to better understand the human connectome, and how this work can be leveraged to improve patients’ lives.  “In contrast to many other neuroimaging domains, there is a more or less direct translation [from Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)] to clinical practice,” says Dr. Horn. For example, networks identified via DBS can be targeted with noninvasive stimulation methods such as multifocal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to improve conditions of patients with movement disorders like Parkinson's disease.

Dr. Horn also provides insight into ongoing discussions  in the field on whether structural or functional measures provide better predictions for DBS outcomes. He explains why his lab has gradually shifted away from using patient-specific connectivity data to precise normative connectomes for determining which brain networks should be modulated for maximal effects.

In his keynote at OHBM 2023, Dr. Horn will give us a tour of his findings from years of work studying the effects of deep brain stimulation on the connectome across different disorders, ranging across neurological, neuropsychiatric, and psychiatric diseases. He will illustrate how his findings can be transferred across disorders to inform one another as well as how they can be further used to study neurocognitive effects and behaviors such as risk-taking and impulsivity.
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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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A CONVERSATION WITH Emma Robinson (OHBM 2023 KEYNOTE INTERVIEW SERIES PT. 3)

6/22/2023

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Lavinia ​Carmen Uscatescu and Sin Kim

The third entry in our 2023 Keynote Presenter series

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Dr. Emma Robinson is a Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Professor) at King’s College London. Her development of the Multimodal Surface Matching (MSM) software for cortical surface registration has been instrumental to the development of the Human Connectome Project’s multimodal parcellation of the human cortex. She is currently developing interpretable machine learning models for personalized prediction of disease progression.

In this interview, Dr. Robinson describes the advantages of interpretable machine learning models and the methodological challenges she faced during the development of this framework. Her approach to identifying disease-related changes in individual brain scans attempts to circumvent two limitations of traditional approaches: (1) the over-reliance on population averages; and (2) the opacity of “black-box” machine learning algorithms such as deep neural networks. However, her extensive experience working on the Human Connectome Project led her to realize that traditional image registration methods may not be sufficient for individualized predictions.


In addition, Dr. Robinson shared how her relationship with her mentors shaped the trajectory of her current career. Her mentors not only guided her on the application of computational methods to neuroscience but also encouraged her to develop her own methods.
At OHBM 2023, Dr. Robinson will present how her work contributes to improved personalized predictions of cortical features in patient populations and how interpretable machine learning approaches can enhance precision.
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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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A Conversation with Emily Jacobs (OHBM 2023 keynote interview Series Pt. 2)

6/13/2023

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Elisa Guma and Simon Steinkamp

Continuing our OHBM2023 keynote interview series

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Dr. Emily Jacobs is an Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and the director of the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Health Initiative at University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley, and her BA in Neuroscience from Smith College. Prior to UCSB, she was an instructor at Harvard Medical School and at the Department of Medicine/Division of Women’s Health at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. 

In this interview, we discuss the pioneering work of Dr. Jacobs and her group in leveraging brain imaging, computation, and endocrine approaches to deepen our understanding of the influence of sex hormones on the central nervous system across spatial and temporal scales. Her group uses structural and functional neuroimaging methods to explore how the brain changes in response to endogenous hormonal changes, such as across the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, or menopause, as well as to exogenous hormones via oral hormonal contraceptives. Through the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Health Initiative, Dr. Jacobs and her group are working towards creating a population-level brain imaging dataset to advance our understanding of women’s brain health across the lifespan.  

Dr. Jacobs also shares her journey into neuroscience research, her thoughts on how science can inform public policy, and talks about her groups’ efforts to improve girls’ representation in STEM by partnering with K-12 groups. This work was featured in the book STEMinists: The Lifework of 12 Women Scientists and Engineers. 

At OHBM 2023, Dr. Jacobs will highlight the power of sex steroid hormones and the role that they play in shaping the brain over multiple timescales, drawing attention to some of the reasons why it has taken the field so long to focus on women’s brain health. 

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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What to Expect from the Diversity and Inclusivity Committee at The 2023 OHBM Annual Meeting

6/13/2023

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Alexander Barnett, Christienne Damatac, Eduardo A. Garza-Villarreal, Julia Kam, Lucina Uddin, and Maryam Ziaei

On behalf of the OHBM Diversity & Inclusivity Committee

At this year’s OHBM meeting in Montreal, cutting-edge technology and a commitment to diversity and inclusivity will converge in an array of events curated by the Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (DIC). We will showcase the transformative power of thoughtful methodology in enhancing accessibility to and fostering a sense of belonging in neuroscience and neuroimaging. 

First, the 5th annual DIC symposium will feature a panel of experts on groundbreaking technological solutions for supporting our diverse global community. From revolutionizing accessibility for individuals with visual and auditory impairments to promoting inclusivity in neuroimaging studies, this symposium promises to inspire us to actively improve our own research to be more inclusive. 

Next, at the Multilingual Kids Review, we will engage young reviewers from diverse backgrounds in critically assessing a scientific presentation. Finally, the Diversity & Inclusivity Roundtable will focus on advancing diversity across multiple dimensions, examining strategies for organizing diverse symposia, educational courses, and brain hackathons. 

We hope you will join us as we explore how technology, diversity, and inclusivity intersect to shape the future of neuroscience and neuroimaging. Together, we can work towards creating a welcoming environment for OHBM’s diverse and international membership. 

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A conversation with 2023 Talairach Lecture presenter Hongkui Zeng

6/7/2023

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Xinhui Li and Kevin Sitek

Kicking off the 2023 Keynote Lecture Series

Hongkui Zeng is Executive Vice President and Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Her current research interests focus on understanding neuronal diversity and connectivity in the mouse brain-wide circuits and how different cell types work together to process and transform information. Through her leadership of multiple scientific teams at the Allen Institute, she has built several research programs using transcriptomic, connectomic and multimodal approaches. What unifies each of these programs is their shared goal to characterize and classify the wide variety of cell types that constitute the mammalian brain, laying the foundation for unraveling the cell type basis of brain function. 

At OHBM 2023, Dr. Zeng will be presenting the Talairach Lecture entitled “Understanding Brain Cell Type Diversity.” Read on to learn about Dr. Zeng’s research, career trajectory, and advice for early career scientists through her conversation with Xinhui Li and Kevin Sitek! An edited version of this interview is also available to watch on YouTube or to listen to on your favorite podcast service.
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Tips for an Environmentally Sustainable OHBM2023

5/19/2023

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By Charlotte Rae, Nikhil Bhagwat, Peer Herholz, Irene Faiman, and Niall Duncan 

FROM THE SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT ACTION SIG (SEA-SIG)

As we prepare for the 2023 annual meeting in Montreal, many of us have started looking into travel arrangements, accommodation, and generally getting ready for the annual meeting. From booking travel to planning your time in Montreal, there are lots of ways that you can make your 2023 meeting experience more sustainable. Here we highlight some often overlooked tips, from getting around the city to poster printing and more

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An interview with Janaina Mourao-Miranda, OHBM 2022 Keynote presenter

5/16/2023

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Yohan Yee

A look back before moving forward to 2023 keynote interviews

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Prof Janaina [Jana-eena] Mourao-Miranda leads the Machine Learning and Neuroimaging Lab within the Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC) at the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL), where she applies pattern recognition and machine learning techniques to neuroimaging data. A major theme within Prof Mourao-Miranda’s research is uncovering the relationship between brain and behaviour.

At OHBM 2022, Prof Mourao-Miranda gave a keynote lecture on machine learning in neuroimaging and psychiatry. You can find a recording of Prof Mourao-Miranda’s talk here. Below is an edited transcript of an interview conducted with Prof Mourao-Miranda on June 17, 2022.

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Announcing the Launch of the Women in OHBM Special Interest Group

4/18/2023

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Jean Chen

On behalf of the Women in OHBM Special Interest Group

Over half of OHBM conference attendees are women scientists (according to data from OHBM Executive Staff), and many of them continue to face gender-specific barriers in their work as human brain mappers. To enable members to learn from one another and mutually support career success, we created the Women in OHBM Special Interest Group (SIG), officially recognized as of March 2023.

​The product of a 2-year informal consultation process, the Women in OHBM SIG was motivated by a group of mid- and early-career OHBM women scientists with shared interests and challenges around gender equity in terms of scientific impact, career development and work-life balance, among other topics. The SIG aims to provide a community for OHBM women to network, promote mutual career development and facilitate scientific exchange amongst women scientists.

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2023 inaugural leadership of the Women in OHBM Special Interest Group.

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Introducing OHBM MEMBERSHIP+ – Membership over the years

3/22/2023

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Simon Steinkamp

Looking at OHBM membership data and a new membership tier

OHBM transitioned to a scientific society in 2018 with the goal of delivering year-round engagement for the society’s members rather than being solely about the annual meeting. However, if one looks at the raw membership numbers over the last 17 years, the main perceived membership benefit remains connected to the annual meeting. In particular, yearly membership numbers fluctuate with meeting location, with highest membership numbers from the same geographic region. 

Unfortunately, this means that the society-based aspects of OHBM and many of the benefits of being an OHBM member have been largely overlooked. Thus, OHBM leadership is introducing a new MEMBERSHIP+ initiative to create a greater engagement of members on top of the annual meeting, strengthening OHBM as a society.

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Fig. 1: OHBM membership data per year per continent. Bars in orange indicate if the Annual Meeting took place on the same continent, the virtual conferences are shaded in gray. Note different y-axis ranges for each plot. Numbers for North America include Central America and the Caribbean.

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Neurosalience: Systems, circuits and psychedelics (Season 3 Episodes 9–12)

3/22/2023

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Alfie Wearn

On behalf of the OHBM Communications Committee Podcast Team

2023 is well underway. Holiday breaks and New Year’s parties seem but a distant memory. Since our end-of-2022 update, we have released four new episodes of Neurosalience, on which you can feast your eyes and ears. We released a long-awaited interview with ComCom, the curators of this very blog. Peter also interviewed Jeff Binder on concept representation, Lily Mujica-Parodi on modelling control systems, and Matthew Wall on the clinical utility of psilocybin.​

If you missed of any of these episodes, check the links and descriptions below:
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The Future of Focused Virtual Meetings: Highlighting the 2022 qMRI Conference

3/15/2023

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Naomi L. Gaggi

OHBM leadership is interested in maximizing OHBM year-round. And so, it is critical to explore recent small virtual events to learn more about what these year-round virtual meetings could look like. One example of a successful virtual conference is the Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Neurodegeneration conference (2022 qMRI Conference), which took place online from October 26–28, 2022. The conference highlighted the latest advances in quantitative MRI (qMRI) methodology and how these novel tools are being applied to study different neurodegenerative conditions. 

I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Mallar Chakravarty, Dr. Christopher Rowley, Aurélie Bussy, and Olivier Parent about both their experience planning this kind of virtual event as well as what lessons they believe that OHBM can learn and apply to future focused and virtual endeavors. These are the key takeaways from our discussion:
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Looking Ahead to Montréal: Meeting Format and Presenter Requirements

1/11/2023

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Beth Slater, with support from the OHBM Executive Office

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Happy New Year and welcome to 2023, the year that OHBM will travel to Montréal for the 29th Annual Meeting. This meeting will be primarily held in person—but in a change from previous years, all members of OHBM can upload approved content and automatically have access to Annual Meeting content in a virtual space, regardless of registration status. 
In previous years, presenters were required to register for the Annual Meeting prior to uploading their content. New this year, presenters who are unable to participate in person may upload content simply by being a member of OHBM. This shift will reduce the financial burden for individuals who cannot travel to Montréal. Membership can be renewed here at any time. 

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Brain-Art Special Interest Group at OHBM 2022

1/3/2023

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Xinhui Li, Lena Oestreich, Aman Badhwar, Sridar Narayanan, Gladys Heng, Robin Gutzen

On behalf of the OHBM Brain-Art Special Interest Group

The OHBM Brain-Art Special Interest Group (SIG) is an initiative to promote the exchange between Art and Science by fostering the dialogue between artists and members of the OHBM community. We aim to encourage artistic approaches and perspectives to understanding human brain function, facilitate the development of novel approaches for the visualization of scientific data, and provide a model of interaction between disciplines while enhancing the public outreach of OHBM. We achieve these goals through annual activities such as the Brain-Art Exhibition and Competition at the OHBM conference.

In 2022, we participated in multiple events at the OHBM Annual Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. Read on to hear about our Brain-Art Exhibition, Competition, and much more!​
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OHBM Blog: 2022 roundup

12/22/2022

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OHBM Blog Team

Happy holidays!

Well, it’s here—the end of 2022. With OHBM’s first in-person annual meeting since before the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022 shaped up to be a busy year for the OHBM Communications Committee!
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We gathered up the experiences and thoughts of this year’s OHBM blog contributors to hear how everyone’s doing and what they’re looking forward to in 2023. (For a blast from the past, here are the 2021, 2020, and 2019 posts.)

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Kevin Sitek, Blog team lead and Committee chair-elect
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https://sitek.github.io/
I am very thankful that 2022 brought the return of mostly normal activities for me, particularly international travel and an in-person OHBM annual meeting! It was amazing seeing so many old friends and collaborators (and meeting plenty of new ones) in Glasgow. I was also able to visit a few other cities before and after the conference, which scratched a two-plus-year travel itch. Within the Communications Committee, I shifted to more behind-the-scenes activities in 2022, but not before flipping the microphone on the podcast host and interviewing Peter Bandettini on the Neurosalience podcast. As blog team lead, I know there’s a ton of great content coming in the next year. Thanks for reading and listening along with us, and we hope to see you in 2023!


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Neurosalience: 2022 End-of-Year Summary

12/22/2022

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Alfie Wearn

Since our last Neurosalience blog post, we have released 5 new episodes on topics including methods for unconsciously training the brain using fMRI, new methods for directly measuring neural activity with MRI, and a look back at the discovery of resting state fMRI.​

These are the last episodes of 2022. We’ll be back with our next episode in early January. Thank you for joining us this year, and happy holidays! 
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If you missed any of our most recent episodes, check them out below:

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Best practices for ensuring diversity of presenters at OHBM

12/1/2022

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OHBM Diversity and Inclusivity Committee

Every year the OHBM Program Committee takes on the challenging task of creating content for the annual meeting that appeals to the multifaceted, global OHBM community. One of the top priorities for the committee is to ensure diversity of presenters at the meeting. However, it may be unclear how to achieve this goal.
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Currently, the submission guidelines for symposia and educational courses state that submissions should provide a “statement on presenter diversity.” We hope to provide a discussion of what the statement of presenter diversity means and how organizers can ensure that a symposium submission meets this requirement. The Diversity and Inclusivity Committee has some ideas that we hope will move this discussion forward and provide concrete guidelines.

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Season 3 of Neurosalience has begun!

10/21/2022

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Alfie Wearn

(new) Podcast team lead

The OHBM podcast is back with a brand-new season of content.
 
If you don’t already know, Neurosalience is a bi-weekly podcast featuring discussions with the people of the OHBM community—the humans behind the brain-mapping, if you will. Hosted by Peter Bandettini, the podcast features conversations with leading researchers in the field, developers of your favorite analysis packages, and other key figures in the world of neuroimaging. The podcast is aimed at anyone interested in neuroimaging, from established faculty to the very earliest of early-career researchers. New episodes are released every other Wednesday — do come and join us! 

Here’s a breakdown of the first few episodes released so far:

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New meeting dates for OHBM 2023 in Montreal: July 22–26, 2023

10/14/2022

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Kevin Sitek

Blog team lead and ComCom chair-elect

On October 14, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) announced that the next Annual Meeting will be held in Montreal on July 22–26, 2023—a one-month change from its previously planned June schedule.
Despite the shift in the dates of the Annual Meeting itself, other logistics remain largely unchanged: the conference will be held in the Montréal Palais de Congrès, and content submissions will still be open from October 15 until the December 20 deadline (which is rigidly enforced so that members can enjoy the late December holiday season without the added stress of conference submissions).

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With such a dramatic change to the upcoming calendar, it’s critical for the human brain mapping community to know what to expect for OHBM 2023 so that they can plan for the new schedule. To that end, we communicated with Alex Shun (Communications Manager at the OHBM Executive Office), Michele Veldsman (OHBM Council Secretary), and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten (OHBM Council Chair) to discuss the reasons for the change, the decision-making process, and the issues and opportunities that arise from this date shift.
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Why have the dates of OHBM 2023 in Montreal changed, and why was the decision made at this point?
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten (MTdS): The Canadian Grand Prix is typically held in June in Montreal, but until very recently we didn’t know dates—it’s usually earlier in the month. When the overlapping event dates were announced last week, we knew it would be a big problem for accommodations (since around 300,000 people visit Montreal for the Grand Prix). 
Michele Veldsman (MV): The Grand Prix overlap pushed the prices of everything up three-fold—which makes it completely inaccessible for most people. 
Alex Shun (AS): The overall attendee experience was the driving force behind the OHBM 2023 date change. The Executive Office was in close contact with our local vendors as we awaited the Grand Prix schedule to be publicized and worked to create a solution when we learned of the overlap. Accommodation prices, flights, social venue costs, and the overall ease of getting around the city would have hugely impacted our community and we wanted to ensure our attendees have a positive experience in Montreal.

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Network Neuroscience for the Clinic: OHBM2022 Keynote Interview with Dr. Juan (Helen) Zhou

9/4/2022

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Alexander Holmes

PhD Candidate at the Neural Systems and Behaviour Lab, Monash University, Australia

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Dr. Juan (Helen) Zhou is an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator of the Multimodal Neuroimaging in Neuropsychiatric Disorders Laboratory in the Centre for Sleep and Cognition, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). She also holds a joint appointment with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS,  and she currently serves as the Deputy Director for the Centre for Translational Magnetic Resonance Research at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.  She recently finished her term as Council Secretary and a member of the Program Committee of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

 Across these roles, Dr Zhou’s research focuses on the network-based vulnerability hypothesis in disease. Specifically, her lab studies the neural bases of human cognitive functions and the associated vulnerability patterns in ageing and neuropsychiatric disorders using multimodal neuroimaging methods, psychophysical techniques, and machine learning approaches.

​Dr. Zhou presented a keynote address at OHBM 2022 in Glasgow—read on to learn about her research, career path, and hopes for the future of neuroimaging! 
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 Alexander Holmes (AH): Welcome Dr. Zhou, thank you so much for joining us here—it is an honour to have you with us. Can you first tell us about your pathway into science and how you got to where you are now?​

Helen Zhou (HZ): Ah, do you want the short answer or the long answer? When I was doing my undergraduate studies at the School of Computer Science and Engineering in Singapore, I was a part of this accelerated Masters program. During our final year, we needed to do some research, which was where I became interested in algorithms, neural networks, and image processing. When I tried these machine learning projects, it was my first hands-on experience using these algorithms to solve real problems. So, there were many ups and downs (Laughs).


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OHBM 2022 Keynote Series Q&A with Andrew Zalesky

8/18/2022

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 Anastasia Brovkin

PhD Candidate in Computational Neuroscience, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf

Andrew Zalesky is Associate Professor in Engineering and Medicine at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he completed his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering in 2007. Adopting an engineering mindset to study the brain, Prof. Zalesky has developed innovative methods and models to understand the network organization of the human connectome in both health as well as  disease states. 
He established one of the most widely used tools for performing statistical inference on connectomes, co-authored the first textbook on brain network analysis and led development of the Melbourne Subcortex Atlas. He currently holds a Senior Research Fellowship from the Australian National Medical and Health Research Council and was recently voted by his peers as one of Australia's most innovative biomedical engineers.  Today, Prof.  Zalesky  serves as an Associate Editor for Network Neuroscience, Brain Topography and Neuroimage Clinical. 
Before the OHBM 2022 annual meeting, I had the opportunity to interview Prof. Zalesky about his research and his recent keynote talk for OHBM 2022 meeting.
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OHBM Communications Committee seeking new contributors for 2022–2023

8/4/2022

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Yohan Yee, on behalf of the Communications Committee

Are you interested in sharing new research and ideas within (and beyond!) the human brain mapping community? Do you want to be more involved in OHBM and learn about the exciting research led by our community members?

Then apply to join the
OHBM Communications Committee! We’re currently accepting applications for new team members through 15 August (5pm PDT). 
Read on to discover what the Communications Committee does and how you can get involved.

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OHBM 2022 Keynote Interview with Jonathan R. Polimeni: Modeling to invert the fMRI signal

7/24/2022

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Steven Baete

Assistant Professor of Radiology, Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University

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Dr. Jonathan Polimeni is Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and of Biomedical Engineering at Massachusetts General Hospital, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. In his research, he focuses on the fundamental understanding of neural activity in the brain, often in the visual cortex. In pursuing this understanding, Dr. Polimeni has along the way pushed the boundaries of fMRI. His work has resulted in many contributions to both neuroscience and functional imaging science, both in insights gained and in technical advancements. We had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Polimeni about his experience as a scientist and his vision on functional imaging. 
Steven Baete (SB): To start things off, if you were not talking to brain mappers or scientists, how would you describe your research and your most proud scientific accomplishment?
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Jon Polimeni (JP): I would first say that MRI tracks brain function not by detecting neural activity directly. Instead, you can see where the blood flow is increased in the brain in order to deliver oxygen to where it is needed. And because of the magnetic properties of the blood, we can track this with MRI. The blood vessels of the brain are quite smart, and can deliver blood exactly to where it is needed, when it is needed. The goal of my work is to understand how the blood flow is delivered to the brain and to build technologies to image this delivery more clearly. To make functional MRI a better tool to see neural activity and brain function in working brains.

My proudest scientific accomplishment is just to be able to contribute. As a domain, I feel like we have been able to both develop technologies to improve our abilities to track brain function with fMRI and to shed a few insights into this blood flow regulation. I am not sure if I can point to a single achievement, I am just happy to be a part of this endeavor. ​

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OHBM 2022 Talairach Interview with Professor Andreas Lozano

6/15/2022

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Rahul Gaurav

Movement, Investigations and Therapeutics (MOV'IT) team and the Center for NeuroImaging Research (CENIR) at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM - Institut du Cerveau), Sorbonne Université, INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France. 

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Dr Lozano is a neurosurgeon and University Professor at the University of Toronto, where he is best known for his work in the field of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS).  His team has mapped cortical and subcortical circuits in the human brain and has advanced novel treatments for Parkinson’s disease and for depression, dystonia, anorexia, Huntington’s, and Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Lozano has over 750 publications and serves on the boards of several international organizations. He has trained over 70 international postdoctoral fellows. He has received a number of honors including Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Sevilla, the Olivecrona Medal, the Pioneer in Medicine Award, and the Dandy Medal. He has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada, has received the Order of Spain, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada. Here, he sits down to discuss his work and his OHBM2022 Talairach address.

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OHBM2022 Keynote Interview with Sarah Genon: Mapping the steps in the brain-behavior tango

6/12/2022

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Gopi Deshpande

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University

“I was a lifelong chain smoker. Nothing in the world could stop me from smoking. Then, one day I had brain injury and my Insula was damaged. When I woke up, it felt like the urge to smoke had suddenly disappeared. It was as if a switch had been turned off. I could not believe what I was experiencing”
- By an anonymous ex chain smoker
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Our urge to attribute a cause to what we observe is deeply intrinsic. This has led to the idea that the brain has a causal role in human behavior, an idea that has stood the test of time. We are fortunate to live in times when non-invasive brain mapping technologies to infer neural mechanisms of human behavior are widely available. I remember my first OHBM meeting in Florence in 2006 when there was palpable excitement regarding the real possibility of discovering robust neural markers of human behavior using fMRI. Has the hype lived up to its promise? No one better to discuss this issue than Dr. Sarah Genon, whose recent work has been illuminating regarding brain-behavior relationships. It is my pleasure to interview her about her upcoming keynote talk during the OHBM 2022 meeting regarding brain-behavior associations.

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OHBM2022 KEYNOTE Interview with Anastasia Yendiki: On track with Anastasia

6/8/2022

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Fakhereh Attar

PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Anastasia Yendiki is an Associate Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Associate Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. Her research in the field of diffusion MRI tractography methods development started quite unexpectedly after she accidentally saw a tractography image at the Martinos Center on the day that she interviewed for a postdoc in functional MRI. Today, she is a leading researcher in anatomically-informed tractography methods development. In this interview, she tells us about what she enjoys in tractography research most… and also beyond!
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Anastasia Yendiki, OHBM2022 Keynote Speaker

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