Summer Series Summary 2021
The series is centered around the theme of using the right MRI method to ask the right research questions. This program is sponsored by Northwestern University's T32 Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition and will largely be comprised of postdoctoral fellows and graduate students eager to get under the hood of a variety of methods used in brain analyses. The goal of this series is to balance the practical and theoretical, and provide resources and support for ongoing studies!
Series Format:
By popular demand, there will be two portions of the course:
Journal Club/Invited Speaker Series. We have decided to host a meeting every Monday and Friday, although some weeks may vary depending on speaker availability. Most of the days will be occupied by one of our amazing guest speakers. On these days a paper will be posted to give background or context to the topic. The speaker(s) will focus on the MRI methods and research questions they have asked with the method.
Co-operative MRI Mutual Support Sessions When there isn't a speaker, Kate and I will be offering an inverted classroom experience that will act as a kind of MRI office hours. We will be providing folks with tons of resources to aid in all sorts of analyses that they may have ongoing. During these sessions, MR interested folks will come together and discuss bugs/analyses issues/modeling questions that we can try to work through together. There is also an opportunity to more formally pitch a project or present a method to get input and feedback in a supportive, low-stakes environment. Let us know if you are interested in presenting and we can add you to the schedule.
Want to get in touch?
Katherine Damme <kate.damme@u.northwestern.edu>
Zach Anderson <zacharyanderson2024@u.northwestern.edu>
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Background Papers |
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Week of 6/21 – 6/24 |
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Monday 6/21 1 pm |
Setting goals for the summer |
Intro with Kate and Zach |
NA |
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Friday 6/24 1 pm |
Tentatively |
MRI Mutual Support Sessions |
NA |
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Week of 6/28 – 7/2 |
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Monday 6/28 |
Potential pitfalls in GLM denoising fMRI |
Molly Bright, PhD |
Potential pitfalls in denoising resting state fMRI data using General Linear Models. |
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Friday 7/2 1 pm |
Tentatively |
MRI Mutual Support Sessions |
NA |
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Week of 7/5 – 7/9 |
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Monday 7/5 1 pm |
Holiday - No Mtg |
Holiday - No Mtg |
Holiday - No Mtg |
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Friday 7/9 1 pm |
Tentatively |
MRI Mutual Support Sessions |
NA |
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Week of 7/12 – 7/16 |
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Monday 7/12 1 pm |
Predicting chronic pain: Translational Studies |
Vania Apkarian, PhD |
Nociception, Pain, Negative Moods, and Behavior Selection |
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Wednesday 7/14 1 pm |
Representational Similarity Analysis |
Charan Ranganath, PhD + lab members |
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Week of 7/19 – 7/23 |
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Monday 7/19 1 pm |
Testing Cognitive Models in MRI (tentatively) |
Marie Banich, PhD |
TBD |
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Friday 7/23 1 pm |
Tentatively |
MRI Mutual Support Sessions |
NA |
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Week of 7/26 – 7/30 |
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Monday, 7/26 1 pm |
Brain Network Stability Utility |
Caterina Gratton, PhD |
"Precision functional mapping of individual human brains" "Functional brain networks are dominated by stable group and individual factors, not cognitive or daily variation" |
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Friday 7/30 1 pm |
Tentatively |
MRI Mutual Support Sessions |
NA |
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Week of 8/2 – 8/6 |
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Monday, 8/2 4 pm |
Connectomics of bipolar disorder |
Michael Breakspear, PhD + lab members |
TBD |
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Friday 8/6 1 pm |
Bayesian Methods in MRI/Testing Dysconnectivity models of psychosis |
Roberto Limongi, PhD |
“The mechanistic basis of prefrontal rTMS/Glutamate and Dysconnection in the Salience Network” |
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Week of 8/9 – 8/13 |
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Monday 8/9 1 pm |
NURIPS (The future of NUNDA) |
Todd Parrish, PhD and Ajay Kurani, PhD |
None |
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Friday 8/13 1 pm |
Spectroscopy Imaging: Glutamate and Depression |
Michael Treadway, PhD |
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Week of 8/16 – 8/20 |
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Monday 8/16 1 pm |
Reproducible fMRI data analysis |
Russ Poldrack, PhD |
TBD |
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Friday 8/20 1 pm |
Whole Brain Mediation Models |
Tor Wager, PhD |
NA |
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Week of 8/23 – 8/27 |
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Monday 8/23 4 pm |
Diffusion Imaging in Psychiatry: Basics and Best Practices |
Maria Di Biase, PhD |
White matter connectivity disruptions in early and chronic schizophrenia |
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Thursday 8/26 1 pm |
Meta-analyses in fMRI |
Angie Laird, PhD |
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Confirmed Speakers Dates TBD |
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TBD |
TBD (Integrating Multi-modal Approaches-tentatively) |
Joshua Buckholtz, PhD |
TBD |