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Tracy Riggins Recognized

Tracy Riggins Recognized

Faculty Mentor of the Year Award Congratulations to NACS faculty Tracy Riggins, Professor of Psychology, for receiving the 2024 Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award! This award recognizes faculty with outstanding achievement in mentoring students. More...

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Hair, Hair for Equity in Neuroscience Research

Hair, Hair for Equity in Neuroscience Research

Rachel Romeo, a University of Maryland assistant professor of education, wants to shine a light on kids’ early development—literally. Using a technique called Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), she beams light into...

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Prof. Luana Colloca gives talk at MNC

Prof. Luana Colloca gives talk at MNC

Incorporating behavioral, pharmacological, and functional MRI approaches, Luana Colloca spoke about how and where placebo analgesia is formed in humans. Her recent substantial laboratory research hints at different learning mechanisms regulating the formation of...

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Dr. Lauren Atlas gives talk at MNC

Expectations profoundly influence perception and emotion. Computational models of reinforcement learning provide fruitful descriptions of how expectations dynamically develop in response to rewards and punishments. Dr. Atlas' talk focused on the relationship between...

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Dr. JD Power gives talk at MNC

Dr. JD Power gives talk at MNC

Dr. Jonathan D. Power gave a talk titled "Spontaneous fMRI signal: What’s in it for me?" at the Maryland Neuroimaging Center to a standing room only crowd. A substantial fraction of fMRI studies are now entirely or partially “functional connectivity” studies, which...

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Dr. Riggins and Dr. Redcay Receive NIH R01 Award

Dr. Riggins and Dr. Redcay Receive NIH R01 Award

Professors Tracy Riggins and Elizabeth Redcay, both of the Developmental Area, were recently awarded an R01 from NIH/ NICHD. The title of the project is “Hippocampal-memory Network Development and Episodic Memory in Early Childhood."

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Dr. Shackman Publishes Paper

Dr. Shackman Publishes Paper

Evolutionarily-conserved prefrontal-amygdalar dysfunction in early-life anxiety A new fMRI paper from the Dr. Shackman's lab was just accepted for publication at Molecular Psychiatry (2012 Impact Factor 14.897; #1/135 Psychiatry). In the report, Shackman and...

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Julie McCarthy Wins NRSA

Julie McCarthy Wins NRSA

Congratulations to Julie McCarthy for having her National Research Service Award (NRSA) funded by NIMH. This project, “Individual Difference in Social Affiliation,” uses fMRI to explore neural mechanisms associated with social withdrawal and social anhedonia in...

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MNC Offers World-Class Research Experience to Students

MNC Offers World-Class Research Experience to Students

The Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC) is the University of Maryland’s state-of-the-art neuroimaging research center. The array of equipment and facilities in the MNC are used to observe and capture images of the human brain and to measure its activity, providing...

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Unique Maryland Neuroimaging Center Opens To Researchers

Unique Maryland Neuroimaging Center Opens To Researchers

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC) officially opened its doors this week in the Gudelsky Building on north campus - creating a unique research facility unlike any in the Washington, D.C. region. The MNC was made possible by a $2 million award...

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UM Awarded $2 Million for Brain Imaging Center

UM Awarded $2 Million for Brain Imaging Center

The National Science Foundation(link is external) has awarded the University of Maryland nearly $2 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to establish a brain imaging laboratory that will advance the leading edge, cross-disciplinary...

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