http://tmslab.org Optimizing and applying noninvasive brain stimulation to health care and research Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:23:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shirley Fecteau, PhD Shirley Fecteau, PhD, has been appointed Instructor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Shirley is the recipient of grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Fonds de la Recherche Santé Québec, and will expand her work on the neural basis of autism and the ... http://tmslab.org/2007/06/07/faculty-appointment-2/ Alvaro Pascual-Leone gave a lecture at the NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series on the role of the lateral prefrontal cortex , particularly the right lateral prefrontal cortex, in decision making. The lecture describes a novel framework that extends insights from dual-process models in social neuroscience and applies them to decision making ... http://tmslab.org/2007/05/25/nih-neuroscience-seminar-series/ The work of Amir Amedi, William Stern, and colleagues at the Center is highlighted in a recent New Scientist article, which reports on a recent publication in Nature Neuroscience (Nature Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1038/nn1912). Using fMRI and a device called The vOICe, which converts visual details into sound, the study demonstrates ... http://tmslab.org/2007/05/25/how-the-brain-can-hear-shapes/ Joan Camprodon, MD, MPH Joan Camprodon, M.D., MPH, has been appointed Instructor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. In his new faculty role he will expand his work at the Center, leading the efforts of real-time combination of TMS with fMRI for the study of functional connectivity in the adult human brain. http://tmslab.org/2007/05/17/faculty-appointment/ Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Director of the Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Prof. Pascual-Leone has been awarded one of six Chairs in Biomedicine by the BBVA Foundation in Spain to apply principles of neuromodulation and brain plasticity to the neurorehabilitation of traumatic brain injury. Traumatic Brain Injury is a major public health problem ... http://tmslab.org/2007/05/07/bbva-translational-research-chair/ Lindsay Oberman will join the Center in the summer after completing her graduate work with V.S. Ramachandran at UC San Diego. The content goes hereFor several years, thanks to the support of the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation and the National Alliance for Autism Research, work has been ongoing at the ... http://tmslab.org/2007/04/04/expanding-on-our-research-efforts-in-autism/ Amir Amedi from the Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Natasha Mitchell’s ‘All in the Mind’ science magazine (http://abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind) in ABC Radio National (Science Unit) from Australia will broadcast this weekend a program on brain plasticity in the blind highlighting the work of Pawan Singha (MIT) and Amir Amedi ... http://tmslab.org/2007/03/27/all-in-the-mind-program-on-brain-plasticity-in-the-blind/ Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Director of the Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Intersensory substitution with visuo-auditory transformation (The vOICe) and the associated neuroscience research being conducted at the Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation thanks to the support from the National Eye Institute were featured in April 2005 on Canadian CBC Radio One in ... http://tmslab.org/2007/03/27/seeing-with-sound/ Felipe Fregni, MD, PhD, Director of the Clinical Trials Network at the Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Felipe Fregni, MD, PhD, Director of the Clinical Trials Network at the Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation has been featured on various TV programs and scientific magazines for his work on the use of ... http://tmslab.org/2007/03/27/tms-for-the-treatment-of-stroke/ The transcript from the recent meeting of the FDA panel that reviewed Neuronetics’ application for approval of their TMS device for treatment of depression is now available for those interested in getting the details. It is a comprehensive and detailed report with over 500 pages and can be found at ... http://tmslab.org/2007/03/26/neuronetics-panel-transcript-available-2/