Research Highlights

BIAC faculty Huettel, Song, and McCarthy publish the 3rd edition of their popular textbook on "Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging," providing an updated, comprehensive, and accessible overview to all aspects of fMRI.

Recent work from BIAC researchers Alex Avram, Arnaud Guidon and Allen Song showed progress toward achieving a tissue-specific, in particular, myelin-specific diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

BIAC researchers have developed a novel method that can inherently and dynamically correct for blurring artifacts in spiral imaging.

BIAC faculty David Madden and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), to examine adult age differences in task switching across adjacent trials (i.e., local task switching).

BIAC researchers use fMRI to understand the effects on brain function of psychotherapy for depression.

BIAC researchers used fMRI to examine the effects of emotional priming on executive processing during a number Stroop task. During trials with less executive requirements (congruent), there was a greater aversive emotional attenuation effect in a network of regions including the inferior frontal gyrus, insula and cingulate gyrus.

Interrelated executive and emotional processing systems of the brain are differentially affected by PTSD symptomatology in recently deployed war veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.

BIAC researchers have developed an MRI technique that uses oscillating magnetic field gradients to significantly amplify and detect the Lorentz effect induced by neuroelectric activity.

BIAC researchers have discovered that particular regions of the prefrontal cortex detect patterns in the sensory environment, even when those patterns occur within random sequences.

BIAC is using immersive environment technologies to assess the connections between attention, motor planning, motor execution, and sensory input.