Brain Map Lecture Series

The ICTS Neuroimaging Unit presents a series of monthly Brain Map Talks on a wide range of different aspects of human brain mapping. Talks are held at various UCI main campus locations.

If you would like to added to the notification mailing list for future talks, please contact the lecture series coordinator, Dr. Steven Cramer.

Following chronologically is a list of past speakers and their respective topics.

• Frithjof Kruggel , M.D., Ph.D.
  Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, UCI
  Brain Morphometry: An Update
  Friday, November 6, 2009
  
  
• Multiple campus groups with brief presentations.
  Friday, October 2, 2009
  
  
• Ana Solodkin , PhD
  University of Chicago
  Human Motor Function: A Connectivity Approach
  Thursday, May 14, 2009
  
  
• Jeff Krichmar , PhD
  Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Sciences
  Neurorobotics, Neuromodulation, and Modeling Cognitive Function
  Friday, April 10, 2009
  
  
• Jeffrey Johnson
  Postgraduate Researcher Department Neurobiology & Behavior
  Multi-voxel pattern analysis and its application to studies of memory retrieval
  Friday, February 27, 2009
  
  
• Jessica Turner , PhD
  Project Manager FBIRN Project Scientist Dept. Psychiatry & Human Behavior UCI
  Functional and Structural Imaging with a Genome-wide Scan in Schizophrenia
  Friday, January 23, 2009
  
  
• Greg Hickok , PhD
  Professor, Department Cognitive Science Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
  Recent progress in understanding the functional anatomy of language
  Friday, November 21, 2008
  
  
• Multiple campus groups with brief presentations.
  Friday, October 31, 2008
  
  
• L. Tugan Muftuler , Ph.D
  Assistant Professor, Center for Functional Onco-Imaging
  DTI Workshop
  Friday, May 23, 2008
  
  
• Emanuela Tura and Jessica Turner , Ph.D
  Dept. of Psychiatry
  Working Memory Networks in Schizophrenia Modulate With Memory Load and Response Time
  Friday, April 4, 2008
  
  
• Craig Stark , Ph.D
  Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, UC Irvine
  High Resolution Imaging of the Human Hippocampus
  Friday, February 15, 2008
  
  
• Alyssa Brewer , Ph.D
  Department of Cognitive Sciences
  Visual field maps: from properties to plasticity in human and macaque cortex
  Friday, January 18, 2008
  
  
• William Jagust , M.D.
  Professor of Public Health and Neuroscience, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley and Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease: Brain Imaging as a Biomarker
  Friday, November 30, 2007
  
  
• Multiple campus groups with brief presentations.
  Friday, October 26, 2007
  
  
• Richard A. Andersen , Ph.D
  James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, Calif. Inst. Technology
  Planning and decision-making in parieto-frontal circuits.
  Friday, April 20, 2007
  
  
• L. Tugan Muftuler , Ph.D
  Assistant Professor, Center for Functional Onco-Imaging
  Overview of SENSE imaging in fMRI, advantages and disadvantages
  Friday, March 9, 2007
  
  
• David Lyon
  Dept. Anatomy & Neurobiology
  Relating Structure to Function in Primate Visual Cortex: Areas, Modules and Circuits
  Friday, February 23, 2007
  
  
• Jeff Riley , M.D.
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept Neurology, UCI
  The effects of recurrent seizures on white matter development: A diffusion tensor tractography study
  Friday, January 19, 2007
  
  
• Frithjof Kruggel , M.D., Ph.D.
  Professor, Dept Biomedical Engineering
  Influence of Gender and Age on Brain Structures
  Friday, November 17, 2006
  
  
• Multiple campus groups with brief presentations.
  Friday, October 20, 2006
  
  
• Sara Ghazi
  Dept. of Otolaryngology
  Cortical Regions Involved In The Processing Of Easy And Difficult Auditory-Visual Speech Perception
  Friday, May 19, 2006
  
  
• Sean P. Deeny , Ph.D.
  Post-doctoral Scholar, Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia
  Exercise, Aging, and APOE Genotype: EEG and MEG evidence for benefit of physical activity in APOE e4 carriers
  Friday, March 17, 2006
  
  
• Adam P.R. Smith
  Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience Institute of Neurology, University College London
  From segregation to integration: an experimental perspective on Dynamic Causal Modelling
  Friday, February 24, 2006
  
  
• Jeff Johnson , Ph.D.
  Postdoctoral researcher, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory
  ERP and fMRI Investigations of Retrieval Orientation
  Friday, January 27, 2006
  
  
• Multiple campus groups with brief presentations.
  Friday, November 18, 2005
  
  
• Multiple campus groups with brief presentations.
  Friday, October 21, 2005
  
  
• Paul Rodriguez , Ph.D.
  Associate Specialist, Department of Cognitive Science, UC Irvine
  Infrastructure, common questions, and solutions.
  Friday, September 23, 2005
  
  
• Emily Grossman , Ph.D.
  Dept. of Cognitive Sciences
  Brain Areas Involved in Perception of Biological Motion
  Wednesday, June 22, 2005
  
  
• Steven C. Cramer , MD
  Depts. Neurology and Anatomy & Neurobiology, UC Irvine
  Effects of Spinal Cord Injury On Brain Function
  Friday, May 6, 2005
  
  
• Adam Aron , Ph.D.
  Post-doc, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA
  The frontostriatal basis of task-switching: fMRI and human lesion studies.
  Friday, April 1, 2005
  
  
• Ron Frostig , Ph.D.
  Depts. Neurology and Anatomy & Neurobiology, UC Irvine
  Imaging adult cortical plasticity: moving out of the box.
  Friday, March 18, 2005
  
  
• Ramesh Srinivasan , Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Cognitive Sciences, UC Irvine
  Dynamics properties of functional connections in the human brain.
  Friday, February 18, 2005
  
  
• Jessica Turner , Ph.D.
  Dept. of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Specialist in Research, UC Irvine
  Multi-site fMRI calibration and combination.
  Friday, January 7, 2005
  
  
• Lydia Su , Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Dept. Radiological Sciences & John Tu and Thomas Yuen Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, UC Irvine
  Atrophy, Cellular Structural Changes, and Vascular Abnormality in Early AD, MCI, and Normal Controls.
  Friday, December 3, 2004
  
  
• Chuansheng Chen , Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine
  Brain Asymmetry and the Processing of Native and Second Language.
  Friday, November 19, 2004
  
  
• Multiple campus groups with brief presentations.
  Friday, October 1, 2004
  
  
• Paul Rodriguez , Ph.D.
  Associate Specialist, Department of Cognitive Science, UC Irvine
  Path Analysis in fMRI.
  Friday, May 21, 2004
  
  
• Nicole Gage , Ph.D.
  Assistant Researcher M.I.N.D. Institute Scholar Department of Cognitive Sciences, UC Irvine
  Temporal Resolution and Integration Properties of Human Auditory Cortex: MEG Investigations.
  Friday, April 23, 2004
  
  
• Steven C. Cramer , MD
  Depts. Neurology and Anatomy & Neurobiology, UC Irvine
  Mapping the human motor system after CNS injury.
  Friday, March 26, 2004
  
  
• Jogesh Mukherjee , Ph.D.
  Assoc Prof, Dept. Psychiatry & Human Behavior, UC Irvine
  Neuroreceptor Mapping in the Brain.
  Friday, February 20, 2004
  
  
• Michael D. Rugg , Ph.D.
  Professor, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory
  Comparing task-related neural activity across groups: the example of aging and memory.
  Friday, December 12, 2003
  
  
• David van Dyk , Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Dept. of Statistics
  A Poisson-Model-Based Image Restoration Technique with Applications in High-Energy Astrophysics.
  Friday, November 21, 2003
  
  
• Jessica Turner , Ph.D.
  Dept. of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Specialist in Research, UC Irvine
  Multi-site Imaging Collaborations.
  Friday, October 17, 2003
  
  
• Don Hoffman , Ph.D.
  Professor, Dept. Cognitive Sciences
  Brain Imaging Studies of Face Perception.
  Monday, September 1, 2003
  
  
• Steve Potkin , Ph.D.
  Director of Clinical Research, Dept of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
  New Imaging Studies in Neuropsychiatric Disorders.
  Friday, August 8, 2003
  
  
• Greg Hickok , Ph.D.
  Associate Professor Cognitive Sciences
  How Speech is Like Vision: Parallels in Cortical Organization.
  Friday, July 18, 2003
  
  
• Lydia Su , Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Dept. Radiological Sciences & John Tu and Thomas Yuen Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, UC Irvine
  Imaging of Structural and Cerebrovascular Changes in Aging Brain.
  Friday, June 27, 2003
  
  
• Gordon Shaw , Ph.D.
  Professor Emeritus, Dept. Physics
  Generalized Mozart Effect.
  Friday, May 9, 2003
  
  
• Z. H. Cho , Ph.D.
  UCI Depts of Radiological Sciences & Psychiatry and Human Behavior
  Promises & Problems in Functional Brain Imaging - from Physics to Molecules.
  Friday, April 11, 2003
  
  
• Multiple campus groups with brief presentations.
  Friday, January 24, 2003