19th of June 7pm
Berrick Saul Building
The Business-Like Brain
Ed Bullmore, University of Cambridge
Like a business, the brain network is designed to minimise cost and add
value. Highly connected hub nodes of the network are biologically
expensive but arguably worth it because they facilitate higher order
mental functions. Join Neuroscientist, Ed Bullmore, as he discusses how
these high-cost/high-value hubs may also be points of special
vulnerability for many brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and
schizophrenia.
Please note that although admission is free, a ticket is required
http://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2014/talks/business-like-brain/
Hi
Occasionally I torment myself and revisit a task switching study that I have yet to get closure on.
You may find the following helpful - sorry if this is old news.
I recently discovered this paper
Woo, C.-W., Krishnan, A., & Wager, T. D. (2014). Cluster-extent based thresholding in fMRI analyses: Pitfalls and recommendations. Neuroimage, 91, 412-419. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.058
which offers some seemingly sensible rules of thumb regarding whole brain analyses and cluster correction (regardless I’m sticking with .005!)
In addition I have found the following matlab tools very useful
tal2mni.m
mni2tal.m
that can be downloaded from here
http://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/imaging/MniTalairach
you will need spm-matrix.m
but this can be downloaded here
https://code.google.com/p/fieldtrip/source/browse/trunk/external/spm8/spm_m….
In return my Munster converter has stopped working due to JAVA issues any advice gratefully received.
Philip.
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*_EEG/MEG Technician, Full Time, Elk Grove Village, IL60007_*
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Although many things have changed with the times, our commitment to
respect, compassion, and quality care—for every patient and every
professional—remains as strong as ever. Our network currently
consists of four hospitals, as well as our immediate-care and
occupational health centers.
The *Illinois MEG Center* is engaged in both patient care and
research activities with respect to the relationships between
behavior and brain structure and function. Exploration of brain
function involves behavioral and cognitive testing,
Magnetoencephalography (MEG), Electroencephalography (EEG), Magnetic
Resonance Imaging, functional MRI, and Magnetic Resonance
Spectroscopy which are performed on a wide range of subject
populations including adults and children with epilepsy, brain
tumors, autism, and psychiatric disease.
The primary focus of the Illinois MEG Center is to provide
diagnostic testing services to a wide range of subject populations
including adults and children with epilepsy, brain tumors, strokes,
traumatic brain injuries, various degenerative brain disorders, and
psychiatric disease. A Magnetoencephalographic (MEG) Technologist
records the electromagnetic activity of the brain and nervous system
using a variety of techniques and instruments under the supervision
of the Medical Director or Center Manager. A technologist in this
category will have experience with the basics of performing an EEG,
and will have acquired skill in applying EEG electrodes in
accordance with the International 10-20 system of electrode
placement. Additionally, the technologist will be able to identify
common artifacts and perform basic evoked potential procedures.
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advanced analysis programs.
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*Minimum Qualifications:*
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but not required.
3.Technicians recently graduated from an accredited
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Physical Requirements:
Some light lifting (up to 20 pounds) or moving of equipment or
patients on a stretcher is occasionally needed. The general level of
required manual dexterity is low to medium.
*_Key Responsibility Areas_*
Primary Responsibilities:
1. Adheres to training regarding ethical behavior and
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with patients suffering from diseases of brain dysfunction.
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and JCAHO guidelines for Universal Precautions and hospital
regulations.
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patient’s cooperation necessary for a complete examination. Checks
the patient’s medical chart for orders and special needs, with
particular attention to patients with implanted medical devices.
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related to electroneurodiagnostic medicine, instrumentation, basic
electronics, and electrical safety.
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electrodes using collodian; obtains 3-space digitization of fiducial
landmarks using a polhemus device for co-registration of physiologic
data with a volumetric MRI; distinguishes between normal and
abnormal waveforms; Acquires data using the appropriate protocols as
requested by the referring physician. Examinations may include
collection of spontaneous data, and evoked responses of visual,
auditory, somatosensory, and or motor cortices; describes all
abnormal clinical manifestations observed during the test;
recognizes physiological and non-physiological artifacts and takes
appropriate steps to eliminate them.
6. Performs the appropriate tuning of the MEG system for all
recordings. Manipulates instrument controls for optimal recording of
electromagnetic responses.
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preparing or manipulating the instrument and applying surface
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Manager, or coordinator.
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ensures it is in good operating condition. Detects instrument
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need for major repairs. Places cleaned EEG electrodes and caps in
clear plastic bags for storage.
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procedures. Continues education by participating in technical
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*Post doc, Stockholm, Sweden*
The Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet offers
a 2 year post doc position giving the researcher an unique mix of
inspiring interactions with researchers from a wide range of research
areas and a freedom to pursuit one's own qualified researchquestions.
**
*NatMEG – the national facility for magnetoencephalography (MEG)*
As of September 2013 Karolinska Institutet hosts a superbly equipped MEG
lab. The NatMEG lab is anational facility open for researchers from all
across Sweden. Due to it being a national facility, a widearray of
projects is currently ongoing or under initiation at NatMEG. We are
covering areas such as next generation SQUIDS, computational modelling,
epilepsy work-ups and cognitive neuroscience in the areas of memory,
language, attention, perception, pain, music, decision making, emotion,
autism, schizophrenia, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease and more.
We currently have 1 post doc and 3 guest professors that supports and
initiates research at NatMEG and we are now recruiting another postdoc
researcher to the lab.
Please visit http://www.natmeg.se for more information.
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*Duties*
Your duties as a postdoc will consist of:
•The postdocs own qualified research with MEG and/or simultaneous MEG & EEG.
•Research at the national infrastructure for magnetoencephalography
(NatMEG), including some general operation.
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design and analysis.
•Development of routines, experimental design and analysis with MEG and EEG.
*Entry requirements*
An ideal candidate has extensive MEG experience and is experienced in
psychophysiology measurements. The person has strong skills in
FieldTrip, MNE or other MEG analysis tools as well as in MatLab and/or
Python. We are looking for candidates with a research interest within
the cognitive neuroscience domain, that master academic English, is
independent and service minded.
A person is eligible for a position as postdoctoral research fellow if
he or she has obtained a PhD nomore than seven years before the last
date of employment as postdoc.
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Applications are to be submitted in the recruitment system NetRecruiter.**
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*Application deadline *2014-06-15
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Karolinska Institutet – a medical university
Dear community:
the new multidisciplinary Risk and Uncertainty Institute in
Liverpool, sponsored by EPSRC and ESRC UK, offers two 4-year PhD
studentships in the field of decision making and EEG. One studentship
explores neural basis of losses and loss aversion, and the other project
investigates effects of odours on decision making. Both studentships are
also supported by Unilever, providing additional research funds.
Details on both studentships can be found here:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/risk-and-uncertainty/postgraduate/cdt-research-project…http://www.liv.ac.uk/risk-and-uncertainty/postgraduate/cdt-research-project…
Applications should be submitted online via the links above. The
deadline for applications is June 30.
Dr. Andrej Stancak
Andrej Stancak, PhD.
Professor for normal physiology
Senior lecturer in psychology
Institute of Psychology, Health and Society
Department of Experimental Psychology
Eleanor Rathbone Building
Bedford Street South
L69 7ZA
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Office: 204a
Phone: 0044 0151 7946951
E-mail: a.stancak(a)liverpool.ac.uk <mailto:a.stancak@liverpool.ac.uk>
(primary)
stancak(a)lf3.cuni.cz <mailto:stancak@lf3.cuni.cz> (secondary)
Office hours: Tue 10-12, Wed 10-12
Dear Users
There will not be a YNiC seminar this Thursday.
Next Thursday (May 5th) Prof. Gary Green will give a talk on "Progress
in molecular imaging".
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Job Number
BU00553
School/Department
School of Psychology
Grade
7
Salary Information
£30,728 - £36,661 p.a.
Contract Duration
Permanent
Responsible to
Dr John Parkinson
Closing Date
30-05-2014
We invite applications for the above appointment in the School of
Psychology.
We are one of the UK’s oldest and most successful Psychology departments
with an established track record of excellence in research and teaching.
The School was ranked 7th in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment
Exercise, and in the top 5 nationally for teaching quality in the 2012
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delivery of high quality, research-intensive, degree programmes.
The School has particular strengths in health and ageing, cognitive and
social neuroscience, language and development, psychological
interventions, and behaviour change. We seek to appoint a candidate with
significant early-career potential in our areas of expertise.
The School has world leading groups developing and delivering
psychological interventions within the areas of behaviour change,
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dialectical behaviour therapy. In addition, the School has a highly
commended doctoral clinical psychology (DClinPsy) training programme.
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In the cognitive and clinical neuroscience domain this includes access
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MRI guided TMS. Research in this area also benefits from a
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for accessing neurological populations. The School has also recently
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caregivers. Our research addresses important social issues including
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and dementia with the support of the Dementia Services Development
Centre Wales, and the NEURODEM research network.
The University is located in an area of outstanding natural beauty,
situated on the north Wales coast between the mountains of Snowdonia and
the sea, making it one of the most attractive university cities in the UK.
The successful candidate will be expected to take up the posts by
September 1st, 2014.
For further information about these positions please e-mail:
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Purpose of the Job
• To teach at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including
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The post holder will commence employment on grade 7.
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Qualifications/Training
Essential
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Desirable
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Experience/Knowledge
Teaching
Essential
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successful student learning outcomes
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Research
Essential
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in peer-reviewed journals of international standard or other appropriate
output
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results through presentation at relevant conferences and publication in
relevant journals
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• Demonstrate the ability to prioritise work load and work to deadlines
• Ability to lead and work effectively as part of a team
• Ability to work independently, to take the initiative, and to innovate.
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Experience of conducting administrative duties efficiently and effectively
• Demonstrable computer skills, including MS Office, PowerPoint, Excel.
Desirable
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development or equivalent
• Evidence of disseminating own ‘good practice’ effectively to others
and taking up of ‘good practice’ from other sources into own work
• The ability to communicate through the medium of Welsh is desirable
for this post
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Director, Senior MRI Physicist
Bangor Imaging Center,
School of Psychology, Bangor University.
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Please forward to any student interested ...
Multiple studenships for a 1+3 PhD (university, BBSRC, MRC funded) are
available at the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology
http://www.ccace.ed.ac.uk/students-training/postgraduates/phd-studentships
- the dead line for application is June 6th
I'd like to draw your attention here to the human neuro-imaging relevant
ones:
- Defining sub-populations endophenotypes during normal aging
- What is normal brain ageing? Developing and validating a quantitative
diagnostic method incorporating brain images and clinical measures
- Inflammation and white matter lesions: understanding causality and
effects on depression and cognition
- Determining the mechanisms whereby adverse early life events modify
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- A combined Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) and Magnetic
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Postdoctoral Position on Social Neuroscience and Autism
at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in
Leipzig
Department of Social Neuroscience (Prof. Dr. Tania Singer)
Research Group “Psychopathology of the Social Brain” (Dr. Philipp Kanske)
The successful candidate will be involved in a BMBF-funded project on
modulatory effects of oxytocin treatment on higher-order social
cognition as measured with fMRI in autism spectrum disorder. This
project is part of the ASD-Net consortium (http://www.asd-net.de).
Job description
- Co-ordination and execution of a large Oxytocin-fMRI and behavioral
study in autism (N~100).
- Analysis of fMRI and behavioral data and publication of the results.
- Interdisciplinary collaboration with the members of the other ASD-Net
projects (see http://www.asd-net.de) and within the Social Neuroscience
Department with experts in social- and affective neurosciences
(including DTI, resting state, cortical thickness and functional fMRI),
behavioral psychology (including social cognition, game theory,
cognitive functioning) and bio-psychology (including TSST, diurnal
cortisol profiles).
Job requirements
The successful candidate has finished the PhD and shows evidence of high
scholarly promise in the form of publications and other academic
achievements. Ideally, he/she has advanced expertise in functional and
structural neuroimaging (SPM) as well as autism and oxytocin research.
The Max Planck Institute (http://www.cbs.mpg.de) offers an international
research environment. It offers an excellent infrastructure (e.g., three
human 3T and one 7T MRI, rt-fMRI, TMS/tDCS, MEG, behavioral laboratory,
stress laboratory, etc.). The department also has additional behavioral
laboratory space in Berlin, which is located just an hour by train from
Leipzig.
Applications (including a CV, list of publications, statement of
research interests, and contact information of 3 referees) should be
sent as a single PDF file, with your name as the file name, to Sandra
Zurborg (zurborg(a)cbs.mpg.de).
For further details, please see the attachment.
The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer and explicitly
encourages women and handicapped individuals to apply.
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Research Group Leader
Department of Social Neuroscience
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Stephanstr. 1a
04103 Leipzig, Germany
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