- 2/20/2008BIAC researchers (Prince, Woo, Doraiswamy, and Petrella) published an editorial "Functional MRI in the early diagnosis of Alzhermer's disease: is it time to refocus?" in Expert Rev. Neurotherapeutics.
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- 2/15/2008BIAC manuscript "Depressive State- and Disease-Related Alterations in Neural Responses to Affective and Executive Challenges in Geriatric Depression" has been accepted for publication in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
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- 1/28/2008BIAC manuscript "Guided saccades modulate face- and body-sensitive activation in the occipitotemporal cortex during social perception." has been accepted for publication in Brain and Cognition.
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- 12/14/2007BIAC paper "Lorentz Effect Imaging of Ionic Currents in Solution" has been accepted in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance.
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- 12/3/2007BIAC paper "Correction of susceptibility-induced and high-order eddy current geometric distortions in SENSE DTI" has been accepted in NeuroImage.
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- 10/15/2007BIAC paper "Single-Shot Z-Shimmed Sensitivity-Encoded Spiral-In/Out Imaging for fMRI with Reduced Susceptibility Artifacts" has been accepted for publication in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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- 9/12/2007Paper by Morey, Mitchell, Inan, Lieberman, and Belger "Neural Correlates of Automatic and Controlled Processing in Schizophrenia" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.
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- 8/21/2007In 2007, BIAC and UNC NDRC Investigator Dr. Gabriel Dichter was selected to be a UNC K12 Roadmap Scholar. His proposed research will use functional brain imaging to investigate response to psychopharmacologic treatment in individuals with autism spectrum [more info]
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- 7/18/2007Paper by Morey, Petty, Cooper, Labar, and McCarthy "Neural systems for executive and emotional processing are modulated by symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorders in Iraq War veterans" was accepted for publication in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.
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- 5/25/2007BIAC paper "Face Processing Without Awareness in the Right Fusiform Gyrus" has been accepted for publication in Neuropsychologia
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- 3/22/2007BIAC paper "Perceived causality influences brain activity evoked by biological motion" accepted for publication in Social Neuroscience
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- 3/22/2007BIAC paper "Perception of dynamic changes in facial affect and identity in autism" accepted for publication in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
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- 3/20/2007Florin Dolcos has won the Young Investigator Award from NARSAD, to investigate the neural mechanisms undelying the impact of emotion on cognition in healthy aging and depression. [more info]
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- 3/15/2007Paper by Dolcos, Miller, Kragel, Jha, and McCarthy "Regional Brain Differences in the Effect of Distraction During the Delay Interval of a Working Memory Task" accepted for publication in Brain Research.
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- 3/6/2007Paper by Gabriel Dichter & Aysenil Belger, “Social stimuli interfere with cognitive control in autism” accepted for publication in NeuroImage. [more info] [PDF]
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- 2/7/2007Madden Lab Article "Age-Related Slowing of Memory Retrieval: Contributions of Perceptual Speed and Cerebral White Matter Integrity" accepted for publication in Neurobiology of Aging. Bucur, Madden, Spaniol, Provenzale, Cabeza, White, & Huettel
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- 1/25/2007BIAC announces its Post-Baccalaureate Fellowships in Functional Neuroimaging. Apply now - fellowships begin summer 2007. [more info]
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- 12/19/2006BIAC Manuscript "Altruism is associated with an increased neural response to agency" accepted for publication in Nature Neuroscience.
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- 12/15/2006During 2006, UNC and BIAC Investigator Gabriel Dichter was awarded grants from NIMH and NARSAD to study the effects of psychotherapy in depression and a grant from the Dana Foundation to investigate the effects of SSRI treatment in autism.
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- 12/15/2006BIAC launches new web site.
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- 11/14/2006BIAC faculty and students present research at the 2006 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. [more info]
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- 10/23/2006Paper by Dolcos, Kragel, Wang, and McCarthy "Role of the Inferior Frontal Cortex in Coping with Distracting Emotions" published in NeuroReport. [more info]
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- 10/11/2006BIAC paper "Single-Shot ADC Imaging for fMRI" accepted for publication in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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- 10/3/2006BIAC undergraduate student Parker Goyer was named as an "Honorable Mention" for the Faculty Scholars Award, the highest award given by Duke to its undergraduates. Congratulations, Parker!
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- 9/21/2006Congratulations to BIAC BME graduate student Hua Guo for succcessfully defending his PhD dissertation yesterday. Come join us today at 4:00 pm in the big lab for a dessert break to help him celebrate.
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- 9/18/2006BIAC paper "Controlled Scanpath Variation Alters Fusiform Face Activation" accepted for publication in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
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- 9/18/2006"Short Circuiting Schizophrenia" [more info]
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- 9/6/2006BIAC Paper: "FMRI Reveals That Involuntary Visual Deviance Processing Is Resource Limited"
Gunes Yucel, Gregory McCarthy, and Aysenil Belger. Accepted for publication in NeuroImage.
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- 9/1/2006BIAC paper: School-Aged Children Exhibit Domain-Specific Responses to Biological Motion by E.J. Carter & K.A. Pelphrey accepted for publication in Social Neuroscience.
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- 9/1/2006BIAC paper: Brain Mechanisms for Interpreting the Actions of Others From Biological-Motion Cues published in Current Directions in Psychological Science [more info]
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- 8/15/2006BIAC paper "Behavioral, but not reward, risk modulates activation of prefrontal, parietal, and insular cortices" published in Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.
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- 8/8/2006BIAC paper "Endogenous functional CBV contrast revealed by diffusion weighting" published in NMR in Biomedicine. [more info]
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- 8/7/2006BIAC paper "Finding NAMO (Neuroelectric Activity under Magnetic-field Oscillation) with MRI in vivo" published in PNAS. [more info]
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- 8/1/2006BIAC investigator, Rajendra Morey receives a K23 Grant from the NIH to study the effects of PTSD on brain function.
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- 7/19/2006Florin Dolcos has won the Laird Cermak Award for Early Contributions to Memory Research, awarded by the Memory Disorders Research Society.
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- 7/18/2006BIAC paper "Role of the Inferior Frontal Cortex in Coping with Distracting Emotions" accepted for publication in NeuroReport.
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- 6/14/2006Duke University's Kevin Pelphrey receives a grant from the National Alliance for Autism Research / Autism Speaks to study the longitudinal development of the social brain in children with and without autism. [more info]
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- 5/10/2006Duke University's Kevin Pelphrey was recently selected as the 2006 John Merck Scholar in the neurobiology of developmental disabilities in children. [more info]
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- 5/1/2006BIAC paper "Guided saccades modulate object and face-specific activity in the fusiform gyrus" accepted for publication in Human Brain Mapping.
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- 4/11/2006Pelphrey lab paper "Functional Neuroimaging of Numerical Processing in Adults and 4-Year-Old Children" published in PLoS: Biology. [more info] [PDF]
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- 4/11/2006Pelphrey lab paper "Functional Imaging of Numerical Processing in Adults and 4-y-Old Children" featured on PLoS: Biology website [more info]
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- 4/8/2006BIAC faculty and students present research at the 2006 meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. [more info]
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- 3/28/2006Madden et al paper "Adult age differences in the functional neuroanatomy of visual attention: A combined fMRI and DTI study" published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging. [more info]
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- 2/13/2006BIAC paper "Visuospatial executive function in Turner syndrome: Functional MRI and neurocognitive findings." Published in Brain. [more info]
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- 1/30/2006BIAC paper "Occipitotemporal activation evoked by the perception of human bodies is modulated by the presence or absence of the face." accepted for publication in Neuropsychologia.
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- 1/20/2006BIAC Paper "Neural signatures of economic preferences for risk and ambiguity" accepted for publication in Neuron.
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- 1/9/2006BIAC paper "Brain Systems Mediating Cognitive Interference by Emotional Distraction" accepted for publication in The Journal of Neuroscience.
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- 11/22/2005BIAC faculty and students present research at the 2005 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. [more info]
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- 10/17/2005BIAC Paper "Behavioral, but not reward, risk modulates activation of prefrontal, parietal, and insular cortices" accepted for publication in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.
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- 8/1/2005BIAC welcomes new postdoctoral fellows Neil Bearden, James Carter, Yvette Peters, and Bethany Weber.
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- 5/17/2005BIAC UNC Faculty Aysenil Belger receives the 2005 Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement.
The award is one of UNC's most prestigious acknowledgments of faculty excellence.
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- 5/5/2005BIAC paper "Visual task complexity modulates the brain's response to unattended auditory novelty" accepted for publication in Neuroreport. [more info] [PDF]
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- 5/2/2005BIAC Paper "Graded Visual Attention Modulates Brain Responses Evoked By Task-Irrelevant Auditory Pitch Changes" accepted for publication in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [PDF]
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- 4/21/2005Congratulations to BIAC graduate student Chuck Michelich for successfully defending his dissertation!
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- 4/20/2005Congratulations to BIAC graduate student Michele Diaz for successfully defending her dissertation!
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- 4/12/2005BIAC paper "Abstinence-Induced Changes in Self-Report Craving Correlate With Event-related fMRI Responses to Smoking Cues" accepted for publication in Neuropsychopharmacology. [more info] [PDF]
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- 4/9/2005BIAC faculty and students present latest research findings at the 2005 meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. [more info]
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- 3/30/2005"Decisions under uncertainty: Probabilistic context influences activity of prefrontal and parietal cortices" published in the Journal of Neuroscience. [more info] [PDF]
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- 3/21/2005Paper "Taking an Intentional Stance on Eye-Gaze Shifts: A Functional Neuroimaging Study of Social Perception in Children" accepted for publication in NeuroImage.
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- 3/15/2005BIAC paper "Imaging Fronto-Striate Function in Ultra High-risk, Early and Chronic Schizophrenia" published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. [more info] [PDF]
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- 3/11/2005Paper "Neural Basis of Eye Gaze Processing Deficits in Autism" published in Brain. [more info]
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- 3/11/2005Paper: Functional Anatomy of Biological Motion Perception in Posterior Temporal Cortex: An fMRI Study of Eye, Mouth and Hand Movements published in Cerebral Cortex. [more info]
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- 3/11/2005Paper "Regional brain activation evoked when approaching a virtual human on a virtual walk" accepted for publication in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
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- 2/14/2005"Decisions under uncertainty: Probabilistic context influences activity of prefrontal and parietal cortices" accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience.
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- 1/30/2005Macroscopic Fast Neuronal Oscillations and Synchrony in Schizophrenia published in PNAS. [more info]
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- 1/25/2005"Dissociation of Neural Systems Mediating Shifts in Behavioral Response and Cognitive Set" accepted for publication in NeuroImage.
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- 1/24/2005"Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measure of Automatic and Controlled Auditory Processing" accepted for publication in NeuroReport.
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- 1/6/2005BIAC Paper "Development of Visuospatial Short-Term Memory in the Second Half of the 1st Year" published in Developmental Psychology.
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- 1/5/2005BIAC Paper "Neuroanatomical Substrates of Social Cognition Dysfunction in Autism" accepted for publication in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews.
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- 1/5/2005BIAC paper "Grasping the Intentions of Others: The Perceived Intentionality of an Action Influences Activity in the Superior Temporal Sulcus during Social Perception" publshed in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
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- 1/5/2005BIAC paper "Neural Basis of Eye Gaze Processing Deficits in Autism" accepted for publication in Brain.
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- 10/22/2004BIAC faculty and students present research at the 2004 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. [more info]
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- 9/1/2004BIAC article "When strangers pass: Processing of mutual and averted social gaze in the superior temporal sulcus" published in Psychological Science.
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- 6/21/2004BIAC paper "Modulation of prefrontal cortex activity by information toward a decision rule" accepted for publication in NeuroReport.
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- 6/13/2004BIAC faculty present findings at 2004 meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. [more info]
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- 6/1/2004BIAC paper "Diffusion tensor imaging of adult age differences in cerebral white matter: relation to response time" published in NeuroImage.
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- 5/15/2004BIAC presents latest research findings at the 2004 meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). [more info]
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- 4/25/2004BIAC paper "The BOLD fMRI refractory effect is specific to stimulus attributes: Evidence from a visual motion paradigm" accepted for publication in NeuroImage.
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- 4/18/2004BIAC presents latest research findings at the 2004 meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. [more info]
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- 4/7/2004Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a new textbook by BIAC faculty, has been published by Sinauer Associates. [more info]
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- 3/29/2004BIAC has been awarded a $185,000 equipment grant from Hewlett-Packard in support of its teaching laboratory for functional brain imaging.
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- 1/8/2004BIAC paper "Linking hemodynamic and electrophysiological measures of brain activity: Evidence from functional MRI and intracranial field potentials" published in Cerebral Cortex. [PDF]
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- 1/8/2004BIAC paper "Age-related changes in neural activity during visual target detection measured by fMRI" published in Cerebral Cortex. [PDF]
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- 1/8/2004BIAC paper "What is odd in the oddball task? Prefrontal cortex is activated by dynamic changes in response strategy" published in Neuropsychologia. [PDF]
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- 11/24/2003BIAC manuscript "Hemodynamic Correlates of Stimulus Repetition in Visual and Auditory Cortices: An fMRI Study" accepted for publication in NeuroImage. [PDF]
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- 11/13/2003BIAC manuscript "Dynamic and strategic aspects of executive processing" accepted for publication in Cognitive Brain Research.
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- 11/8/2003BIAC faculty and students present research at the 2003 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. [more info]
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- 10/6/2003MRI Pioneers win Nobel Prize in Medicine. [more info]
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- 9/18/2003Due to Hurricane Isabel, Duke University is putting into effect its Severe Weather & Emergency Conditions Policy beginning at 3 p.m. today. Non-essential staff may leave after 3 p.m. [more info]
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- 8/7/2003BIAC paper "Linking hemodynamic and electrophysiological measures of brain activity" accepted for publication in Cerebral Cortex.
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- 7/24/2003BIAC manuscript "What is odd in the oddball task? Prefrontal cortex is activated by dynamic changes in response strategy" accepted for publication in Neuropsychologia.
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- 7/10/2003BIAC students and faculty present research at the 2003 meeting of ISMRM. [more info]
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- 7/3/2003BIAC manuscript "Age-related changes in neural activity during visual target detection measured by fMRI" accepted for publication in Cerebral Cortex.
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- 7/1/2003BIAC paper "An improved gridding method for spiral MRI using nonuniform fast Fourier transform" published in Journal of Magnetic Resonance. [more info] [PDF]
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- 6/19/2003BIAC faculty present findings at 2003 meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. [more info]
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- 5/31/2003BIAC paper "Improved spatial localization based on flow-moment-nulled and intra-voxel incoherent motion-weighted fMRI" published in NMR in Biomedicine. [more info] [PDF]
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- 5/15/2003Congratulations to BIAC graduate/medical student Jimi Obembe for successfully passing his Master's defense!
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- 3/29/2003BIAC presents latest research results at the 2003 meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. [more info]
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- 2/27/2003BIAC XML Header documentation published.
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- 2/18/2003Check out the new BIAC Forums. [more info]
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- 2/12/2003"Brain Activation Evoked by Perception of Gaze Shifts; The Influence of Context" published in Neuropsychologia. [more info] [PDF]
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- 2/11/2003BIAC paper "Faces Evoke Spatially Differentiated Patterns of BOLD Activation and Deactivation" accepted for publication by NeuroReport. [more info]
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- 1/3/2003BIAC welcomes new Assistant Director Dr. Ershela Sims.
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- 11/3/2002BIAC members present research findings at the Society for Neuroscience 32nd Annual Meeting. [more info]
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- 11/1/2002"Category-Sensitive Excitatory and Inhibitory Processes in Human Extrastriate Cortex" published in Journal of Neurophysiology. [more info] [PDF]
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- 9/1/2002BIAC welcomes Dr. Todd Harshbarger as a new postdoctoral fellow. [more info]
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- 9/1/2002"On the timing characteristics of the apparent diffusion coefficient contrast in fMRI" published in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. [more info]
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- 9/1/2002BIAC welcomes new graduate students Michele Diaz and Jimi Obembe.
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- 8/30/2002"Deterministic and stochastic features of fMRI" manuscript published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods. [more info] [PDF]
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- 8/12/2002"Dissociable Prefrontal Brain Systems for Attention and Emotion" manuscript published in PNAS. [more info] [PDF]
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- 6/1/2002"Neural circuit activation elicited by smoking cues" manuscript published in American Journal of Psychiatry. [more info] [PDF]
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- 4/26/2002"Field potentials in the human hippocampus during the encoding and recognition of visual stimuli" manuscript published in Hippocampus. [more info] [PDF]
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- 4/14/2002BIAC members present latest research findings
at the 2002 meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. [more info]
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- 4/8/2002"Perceiving patterns in random series: dynamic processing of sequence in prefrontal cortex" manuscript published in Nature Neuroscience. [more info] [PDF]
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- 3/1/2002Dr. Scott Huettel has joined BIAC as a core faculty member. [more info]
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- 11/2/2001BIAC will host a node of the Biomedical Informatics Resource Network (BIRN). [more info]
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- 10/30/2001Memory research by BIAC postdoc Kevin Pelphrey featured in Endeavors Magazine. [more info]
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- 9/27/2001The BIAC Program Project Grant begins its funding period, providing approximately $7.5 million in research support.
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- 9/25/2001BIAC welcomes new undergraduate research assistants Lombardo Richards and Judyta Misiurek.
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- 9/1/2001Dr. Guven Guzeldere, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Duke University, has joined BIAC for the 2001-2002 academic year. [more info]
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- 8/25/2001Medical students Tarra Wright and Brent Townsend will be conducting their third-year research at BIAC throughout 2001-2002.
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- 8/18/2001Signal Averaging manuscript published in NeuroReport [more info] [PDF]
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- 8/1/2001BIAC welcomes new research assistants Karen Emberger and Sarah Hart.
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- 2/1/2001Age-Related Hemodynamic manuscript published in NeuroImage [more info] [PDF]
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