Dear All,
I just wanted to pass on some advice with regard to accessing the MRI
corridor, when you are about to scan participants. I am communicating
this information because over recent days, quite consistently,
investigators together with their participants have been milling around in
the MRI corridor in advance of their booked slot. I know that this
reflects enthusiasm and an effort on the investigators part to be well
prepared for their scan session and make good use of time. However, the
presence of people in the MRI corridor also runs the risk of disquieting
patients who have been scanned for health reasons. I want to try and
strike a balance between optimising the use of the scanner and maximising
privacy for patients and research participants, who change clothes in the
cubicles on the MRI corridor.
Heres the plan then:
(1) A maximum of two investigators, but preferably just one investigator,
may accompany the research participant into the MRI corridor.
(2) The investigator(s) can stay in the corridor only for the time it
takes to explain the procedure for changing into scrubs to the
participant.
(3) The investigator(s) must then enter the interview room and wait for
the participant to join them.
(4) The MRI operator with then come to the interview room to invite the
investigator(s) and participant through to the scanner suite. It is very
likely that a patient will be changing back into their clothes at this
time, so please keep conversation professional and to a minimum.
(5) If other investigators wish to join the scan session, they may do so
only at the discretion of the MRI operator, who will be able to determine
whether patients privacy will be compromised by the presence of addition
people and will be able to advise when investigators should leave to
ensure privacy is maintained.
If you find that the interview room has already been reserved,
participants may change into scrubs, but must return to and wait in
reception with the investigators until they are invited through to the
scanner suite by the MRI operator.
If investigators are found not to be conforming to this procedure, one of
their scan sessions will be used as a training session on how to prepare
participants for scanning.
Thanks for your help with this.
Tony
Hi,
As of today, there is a small change to the booking system for MEG and
MRI at YNiC. Whilst previously, bookings were made on 10-minute
intervals, in order to fit the clinical and research booking together
more easily, this has now changed, for future bookings, to 15-minute
intervals (i.e bookings start and end at 00, 15, 30 and 45 minutes past
the hour).
The bookings page (https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/bookings/) has also been
changed to show the timings of existing bookings more clearly.
Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
Hi,
Please be aware that the default behaviour of the beamformer has
changed as of 01/06/2008. An artifact has been identified which has now
been compensated for. As such, if you have run any beamforming studies
prior to 01/06/2008, it is vitally important that you familiarise
yourself with the issue of FilterPadding found at:
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/doc/FilterPadding
Any questions should be directed to analysis-support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Thanks,
Mark (on behalf of the YNiC Staff)
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Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
Dear Users
We have some visitors coming to YNiC on Wednesday 4th June from
4.30-7.30 pm. We will be talking to the visitors in Open Plan and they
will need access to at least half of the iMacs.
If you intend to work in Open Plan on Wednesday afternoon, please could
you move to a computer towards the back of the room (i.e. away from the
projector) as we approach 4.30 pm.
Thank you
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear colleagues
On Tuesday the 3rd of June from 2pm onwards, YNiC will be reviewed by
the University. A committee will be investigating how we operate,
talking to users & staff and reviewing our space.
If you are thinking of working at YNiC that day, it would help us to
have users in the open plan area in case the Committee Members wish to
talk about User experiences/research. Of course I cannot guarantee that
they will want to do this as we have only been sent a general outline
about what they wish to cover in the two and half hour visitation
Thanks
Gary
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Jonathan Peirce will be speaking from 4-5 pm at YNiC on "PsychoPy -
Psychology and neuroscience stimuli in python".
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/neuroscience/contact/a-z/M-R/peirce_jon.phtml
Everyone is welcome to attend and there will be wine and soft drinks
available after the talk.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users
Next week's seminar (Thursday 4 pm at YNiC) will be given by Jonathan
Peirce from the University of Nottingham.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/neuroscience/contact/a-z/M-R/peirce_jon.phtml
The title of his talk will be "PsychoPy - Psychology and neuroscience
stimuli in python".
Tim Andrews will be hosting this visit.
Everyone is welcome to attend and there will be wine and soft drinks
available after the talk.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users
The 4-D Neuroimaging International Users' Group Meeting will be held
from 13th-15th July. YNiC has been asked to give a number of
presentations; one of which is a slot on the "sensory/cognitive
roundtable". This will be an excellent opportunity to present exciting
MEG results from the YNiC user community to the rest of the 4-D IUGM
delegates.
Last year three users allowed me to use their data in the presentation.
As each speaker at last year's roundtable was only given 6 minutes each
to present, I could only include a couple of slides from each user. I
envisage that the format will be similar this year and therefore I would
only need a couple of slides from any user who would like to share their
data.
Either Michael Simpson or I will be the YNiC representative on the
sensory/cognitive roundtable panel. For now please register any interest
in using your data in the roundtable with me.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
I have agreed to collate information on publications and conference
presentations reporting YNiC work. The deadline is very tight.
Please could you send me ASAP a list of your own papers and
presentations, including forthcoming work. One or two papers 'in
preparation' would also be helpful.
Many thanks
Andy
--
Professor Andy Ellis
Department of Psychology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
England
Tel. +44 (0)1904 433140
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/people/biogs/awe1.html
Dear users
I have been asked to forward this :
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FMRI & EEG studies of neurovascular coupling
Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
School of Psychology
Post-doctoral Research Associate (Combined EEG-FMRI)
Applications are invited for an experienced neuroimaging researcher to
work on combined EEG-FMRI and quantitative FMRI techniques in humans. You
would work with the FMRI Director, Dr Richard Wise, to develop empirical
measures of neurovascular coupling in humans. This is important in the
long term development of FMRI as a technique for examining changes in
brain activity induced by pharmacological agents and neurological disease.
The successful applicant would design, implement and analyze combined
EEG-FMRI studies with the aim of exploring the relationship between
electrophysiological and haemodynamic signals for both sensory-evoked and
ongoing (resting) brain activity. An important component of the project
lies in relating FMRI signals to physiological measurements from
volunteers. (e.g. breathing, cardiac cycle). Respiratory challenges (e.g.
breathing tasks) and pharmacological challenges in collaboration with
clinical colleagues would also be used to modify the baseline physiology
of participants in experiments. Candidates should have a PhD in a relevant
area of neuroimaging and be experienced in the analysis of FMRI data.
The post is fixed-term for 2 years with a salary up to £33780 (grade 6).
Informal enquiries should be made to Dr Richard Wise, CUBRIC, School of
Psychology, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, UK, CF10 3AT.
(http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/psych/cubric/).
Telephone: +44 (0)29 2087 0358
Email: WiseRG(a)cardiff.ac.uk .
Applications should be made through the Cardiff University website:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs/academic/index.htmlhttp://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs/academic/20080298-290508.html
Vacancy ref: 2008/0298
The closing date for applications is Friday 29 May 2008.
Richard Wise
FMRI Director
CUBRIC
School of Psychology
University of Cardiff
Park Place
Cardiff
CF10 3AT
Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 0358 (direct) 0365 (reception)
Fax: +44 (0)29 2087 0339
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Ekaterini Klepousniotou will be speaking from 4-5 pm at YNiC on "The
When and Where of Lexical Ambiguity Processing: Evidence from EEG and
fMRI ".
http://www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk/people/ekaterini/index.htm
Everyone is welcome to attend and there will be wine and soft drinks
available after the talk.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear all,
given that at least 2 members of YNiC staff had failed to remember that
there is an ASC today, I thought it would do no harm to send a another
reminder.
So, 4pm today, Psychology B020, see the email sent to ynic-users
yesterday for the agenda.
Michael
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Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear all,
Piers has forwarded to me the following agenda for the YNiC ASC
tomorrow, Wednesday 14th May. Just to remind you, this will take place
in Psychology room B020 at 4pm.
Michael
--
Dear all,
We have just finished some preliminary analyses of MEG data collected
from a fast phonological priming task (e.g. brane priming BRAIN, versus
brone priming BRAIN) that I would like to report and discuss.
The reason for doing the experiment, as many of you know, is that I have
wanted to get some clearer insight into the role of the very early
activation we have seen across a number of experiments, in left post.
sup. IFG and adjacent precentral gyrus during visual word recognition tasks.
Initial results from the group analysis of beamformed images within
experimental conditions were very encouraging - a real yippee moment.
However, once we started analysing virtual electrode data to compare
directly between experimental conditions, things become a bit more
prickly. While we currently have some results which I think are
convincing, I would really like to discuss the issues that have been
raised especially regarding the group comparisons of Stockwell
transforms, such as:
a) For comparisons of Stockwell plots at the group level should we
compare differences or percentage signal change between conditions?
b) How should we handle the (in our case) quite marked inter-subject
variability?
c) Should we consider some kind of normalisation between pairs of
conditions prior to statistical analysis?
We would really appreciate your thoughts on these and other questions,
and your opinions about how best to proceed,
Best
Piers C
--
Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear Users
This week's seminar (Thursday at 4 pm in YNiC) will be given by
Ekaterini Klepousniotou from the University of Leeds.
http://www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk/people/ekaterini/index.htm
The title of the talk will be "The When and Where of Lexical Ambiguity
Processing: Evidence from EEG and fMRI".
Everyone is welcome to attend and there will be wine and soft drinks
available after the talk.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear all,
As promised last term, I am planning to give a practical session at
YNiC on Thursday the 15th at 10AM. I will review the FSL procedures
for analyzing data and I will show you how to obtain optimal
schedules for event related designs.
I am sending this to YNiC users in case someone else is interested
or in case someone is planning to have a quite time in the open plan
that morning.
Silvia
Silvia Gennari
Department of Psychology
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
Matthew Brett will be speaking from 4-5 pm at YNiC on "Finding and using
regions of interest". Wine and soft drinks will be available afterwards.
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matthew.brett/
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Hello all,
As one or two of you may have noticed we've been continuing the ongoing
push to improve the documentation in the centre, the latest step of
which is a workflow document that will hopefully ease the passage of all
projects here at YNiC. This is essentially a route finder to what we
think will be the most relevant help and assistance you need depending
on the stage of your project, along with any vital information for the
work you are currently doing. It includes sections from the first
approach an investigator might make to the centre, through to writing up
your study. Some sections are more verbose than others, but we hope
we've got the balance right between the information you need (and where
to get more details), and a easily digestible amount of information at
any one time.
At present there are a few paper handouts on the long benches in Open
Plan. If they disappear we'll take that as a good sign and make
arrangements for a more permanent supply, otherwise this documentation,
along with updated induction and safety guides, can be found on the
website at:
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/guides/
Here you'll find both web-based and downloadable pdf versions available.
As ever, we hope we've covered the key points, but welcome any and all
suggestions for improvements. Please send your comments to:
support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Although we hope to have stable versions as soon as possible, if you're
looking at paper or pdf versions you've downloaded, it's always a good
idea to check you have the most recent version (as indicated in the top
left hand corner date stamp).
Thanks,
Sam
--
Sam Johnson
Science Manager, York NeuroImaging Centre
University of York
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear all,
this is just a quick mailing to advertise a YNiC ASC on Wednesday May
14th. It will be chaired by Piers Cornelissen and will be on the subject
of his MEG priming study.
Nearer the time, Piers will forward an agenda. And as before, the
session will take place in Psychology B020, at 4pm. Please come along
and join in the discussion.
Following the YNiC ASC, there will hopefully be a short digest of the
session emailed to ynic-users.
Thanks,
Michael
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Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear Users
This week's seminar (4 pm at YNiC) will be given by Matthew Brett from
the CBU at the University of Cambridge.
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matthew.brett/
The title of his talk will be "Finding and using regions of interest".
Everyone is welcome to attend and there will be wine and soft drinks
available after the talk.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Current Directions in Psychological Science Vol 17 (2) April 2008
is a special issue entitled The interface between neuroscience and
psychological science
subtitle A Sun Reader's Guide to Head Magnetics
so very good for those (like me) who dont want to read the proper literature.
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Philip Quinlan E-Mail: ptq1(a)york.ac.uk
Department of Psychology FAX: (01904) 433181
University of York Tel: (01904) 430000 Ext. 3135
Heslington Direct : (01904) 433135
York Telex: 57933 YORKUL
YO10 5DD
U.K.
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Dear all,
the more observant of you may have noticed that there have been a number
of changes to the Doc wiki recently. In particular there are now six
areas about which there is documentation:
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/MEGFrontPagehttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/MRIFrontPagehttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/ITFrontPagehttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/Miscellaneoushttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/TechnicalInfohttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/YNiCGlossary
There has also been a little bit of tidying up here and there. In
particular, the MEG Front Page was getting rather long. Don't panic, we
haven't deleted everything! The re-organisation just means that the
documentation for MEG now has five separate pages. These pages are
linked from the MEG Front Page, and are on the following areas;
Establishing Key Parameters; Processing Epoch Data; MEG Data
Visualisation; Sensor Space Analysis; Source Space Analysis.
As ever, there may have been an odd error in the re-edit. If you spot
any errors, please email <support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk> and let us know the
problem.
With thanks,
Michael
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Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear All,
I am forwarding a message from Theresa Jones, who is a highly motivated
second-year student. As you can read in her message, she is keen to gain
research experience at the imaging centre. She can only help during this
term, because she has work organized over the summer vacation.
Could you please email her directly if you have anything for her to do?
Thanks
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: tej500(a)york.ac.uk [mailto:tej500@york.ac.uk]
Sent: 25 April 2008 13:59
To: arm501(a)york.ac.uk
Subject: Research experience
Hi just a qucik email following my supervisor meeting. I'm really keen to
get involved in some of the research going on in the neuroimaging centre. If
you could ask around if anyone needs any sort of help I would be very
grateful! Many thanks,
Theresa Jones
Dear Users
This Thursday (24th April) there will be a seminar at YNiC from 4-5 pm
about "Hyperpolarised gas MR physics and engineering".
The speaker is Dr. Jim Wild from the University of Sheffield:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/medicine/staff/wild.html
All are welcome and drinks will be available afterwards.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users
We are planning the content of the YNiC Thursday seminars during the
summer term.
There are already some interesting external speakers lined up (please
see below):
8th May: Matthew Brett, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
University of Cambridge.
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matthew.brett/
15th May: Ekaterini Klepousniotou, University of Leeds
http://www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk/people/ekaterini/index.htm
29th May: Jonathan Peirce, University of Nottingham
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/research/vision/jwp/home.html
We also hope to secure another speaker for 26th June.
For the other sessions that are still available we would like to run
journal clubs and internal User presentations. We invite Users to
suggest journal articles that they would like to present as part of a
series of journal clubs. The available dates for the summer term are:
1st May
22nd May
5th June
12th June
19th June
Please let me know if you have a journal article that you would like to
present.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
