Events in 2008

• May 23, 2008 10:00am ANSIR Seminar Series present: Scott Hoge, PhD from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

• March 19, 2008 (1:30 to 2:30pm at Sticht Center Auditorium) - ANSIR Seminar Series present: Clifford Jack, M.D. of the Aging & Dementia Imaging Research Lab, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

• March 6, 2008 (2 to 3pm) - ANSIR Seminar Series present "The neurobiology of rhythm and music: basic science and clinical translations" by Michael Thaut, PhD of the Department of Music, Colorado State University.

• Febuary 25, 2008 - ANSIR Seminar Series present "Locating Fuctionally Specialized Regions in the Brain" by Oliver Hinds, PhD of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT

Events in 2007

• November 14, 2007 - ANSIR Seminar Series present: Linda Addicott, OTR/L of the Benton Stearns Education District, St. Could, Minnesota
• September 19, 2007 - ANSIR Seminar Series presents: Thomas Liu, Ph.D. of the Center for Functional MRI, University of California San Diego
• August 20, 2007 - ANSIR Seminar Series presents: Donald Hodges of the Music Research Institute, UNC at Greensboro
• July 18, 2007 - ANSIR Seminar Series presents: Tony Wilson, Ph.D. of Neurology, Wake Forest University
• March 21, 2007 - ANSIR Seminar Series presents: Mike Nader, Ph.D. from Phys & Pharm, Wake Forest University
• January 17, 2007 - ANSIR Seminar Series presents: Thomas Nichols, Ph.D. from Clinical Imaging Centre, GlaxoSmithKline

News from 2009

• March 2009 - Dr. Ann Peiffer won the National Postdoctoral Association Travel Award and presented a talk titled "Incorporating Professional Development Opportunities into RCR Education."  Dr. Peiffer also won the Nation Postdoctoral Association Most Innovative Postdoctoral Program Award in 2008.
• February 2009 - Huan Tan's paper titled "A Fast, Effective Filtering Method for Improving Clinical Pulsed Arterial Spin Labeling MRI" has been accepted in Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
• January 2009 - The ANSIR Lab's fully automated processing pipeline, WFU_Pipeline, is now publicly available.  Details are described in a recent paper in Neuroinformatics titled "Fully automated processing of fMRI data in SPM: from MRI scanner to PACS" by Dr. Joseph Maldjian

• December 2008 - Jen Mozolic won the 2008 George Sacher Student Award from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA).
• December 2008 - Merideth Adicott's paper titled "The effect of daily caffeine use on cerebral bloof flow: How much caffeine can we tolerate?" has been accepted in Human Brain Mapping.
• November 2008 - Dr. Ann Peiffer's letter titled "Fostering a Culture of Responsible Lab Conduct" was published in Science (2008) 322:1186.
• September 2008 - Dr. Satoru Hayasaka was awarded an R21 grant by NINDS for developing a power calculation tool for neuroimaging studies.

• March 6, 2008 - Jennifer Mozolic has been awarded first place in the Wake Forest University Graduate School poster session. Also presenting was Huan Tan, pictured above.

• March, 2008 - NIH training fellowships have been awarded to Jennifer Mozolic (from the National Institute on Aging to study cognitive training in older adults) and Merideth Addicott (from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the cognitive effects of caffeine withdrawal).

News from 2007

• November 6, 2007 - Dr. Jonathan Burdette and Dr. David Hairston quoted in articles from BBC News and the NY Times related to their research in conductors.
• September 4, 2007 - Dr. Satoru Hayasaka has recieved a TSI K-12 grant for Integrating Genomics and Brain Imaging: Mapping Genetic Links Associated with Normal and Abnormal Brain Structure and Function
• August 3, 2007 - Non-Stationary Cluster Extent Correction for SPM Released
• June 25, 2007 - Dr. Paul Laurienti featured in an article in "Voice of Americia" -- Attention Training May Help Older Adults Improve Concentration.  Text and Audio available.
• Dr. Jonathan Burdette was recently awarded an NIH R21 grant to study Brain Gray Matter Volume Correlates with Genetics in a South African Cohort.  This grant begins July 1, 2007.
•  June 14, 2007 - ANSIR student Jennifer Mozolic featured in Forbes.com Puzzles May Be a Real Brain-Booster article.
• June 5, 2007 Merideth Addicott's proposal accepted!!
• June 4, 2007 Welcome Olag Lobanov and Benjamin Wagner to ANSIR
• Jen Mozolic, Meredith Addicott, and David Hairston awarded competitive Travel Fellowships for the 13th annual Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting in Chicago, IL.

• In late 2003, the Discovery Channel videotaped memory expert  Scott Hagwood undergoing a neuroimaging scan  while performing some of the memory recall feats for which he is known.^{*
  *} Unfortunately, the Discovery Channel has informed us that "Since this clip was recorded off-air, it cannot be used in any public forum or airing." Perhaps you can catch it on rerun someday...

• WXII Channel 12 News Video  fMRI in Marijuana Users (52MB)
• LA Times - Caffeine Article (Lauienti/Burdette)

News from 2002