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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...
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...
UMD Study Finds Brain Connectivity, Memory Improves in Older Adults After Walking
UMD Study Finds Brain Connectivity, Memory Improves in Older Adults After Walking
Piece of Mind: Upgrade of MNC MRI to Enhance Brain Imaging
Together with major contributions from the BBI and BSOS, a new Research Instrumentation Fund award will improve the temporal and spatial resolution of MR imaging at UMD and enhance campus neuroscience research.
Neuroscientist Spends Summer Teaching Buddhist Monastics
It’s common practice for universities to empty out in the summer as researchers go out in the field. Dr. Jeremy Purcell, a research scientist at Maryland’s Neuroimaging Center, did something a little different. Through...
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...
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...
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...
UMD Researchers Receive Grants under New Federal BRAIN Initiative
A University of Maryland-led team of brain researchers and a UMD engineer have received grants that are part of a research initiative by President Obama focused on revolutionizing understanding of the human brain. A University of Maryland/National Institute of Mental...
Brain-behavior initiative workshop draws 160 faculty, deans and administrators for wide-ranging discussions
More than 160 faculty from at least 50 disciplines at the University of Maryland met together in College Park on Sept. 19 for a full-day Brain-Behavior Initiative Workshop, organized by the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program and the Institute for Systems...
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."
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...
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...
Pessoa Named First Director of the Maryland Neuroimaging Center
COLLEGE PARK, Md - The University of Maryland has named Luiz Pessoa, Ph.D., a professor of Psychology in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, as the first Director for the new Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC). Dr. Pessoa will provide scientific...
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...
University of Maryland Researcher Asks – What Does Love Look Like?
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - What does love look like? A dozen roses delivered on an ordinary weekday? Breakfast in bed? Or just a knowing glance between lovers? While outward displays of love are fairly easy to discern, a researcher in the College of Behavioral and...
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...
Work Begun to Create Home for New Maryland Neuroimaging Center
College Park, Md. -- The University of Maryland has begun construction of the new Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC), a major facility that will exponentially advance the university's already considerable capacity for research on the human brain. The university is...
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...