2009 Prospective Neuroscience IDP Graduate Students Visit to LONI/CCB

Logistics

• Date:
  • Part I: Mon 02/23/09
  • Part II: Mon 03/09/09
• Time: 2:00-2:30 PM
• Place: CCB/LONI, DIVE, 635 Young Dr. South, NRB 225, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7334, LONI DIVE
• Tel: 310-206-2101
• Fax: USA + 310-206-5518
• Hosted by Ivo Dinov
• URL: http://www.loni.ucla.edu/twiki/bin/view/CCB/CCB_Meetings_NS_IDP_Grads_022309

Agenda

• Format (1 group of about 25 students will visit together with NSIDP Chaperones)
• Ivo Dinov: Introduction to CCB/LONI (7 min)
  • Research
  • Training
  • Computational Resources
• Jack Van Horn: Human Brain Mapping (5 min)
  • Human Brain Mapping
• Nathan Hageman, NS Graduate Studies at LONI (5 min)
• Rico Magsipoc: Hardware & Animation (5 min)
• LONI SVG Reel Animation

Current NS Graduate Students in LONI

• Lara Foland
  • Cortical gray matter thickness and manic and depressive episodes after pharmacological treatment in Bipolar Disorder (BD)
  • Examination of Bipolar Disorder using functional brain imaging
  • Functional connectivity of prefrontal cortices and limbic system in mood disordered patients
• Nathan Hageman
  • DTI tractography algorithm development
  • DT-MRI phantom development
  • DTI analysis tool suite development
  • DTI clinical collaborations
• Veena Narayan
  • Structural and functional MRI in normal and disease populations

Materials