Copyright 1999-2000 VA Linux Systems, Inc. Organization for Human Brain Mapping News http://www.nitrc.org Organization for Human Brain Mapping Latest News OHBM Kids Live Review: What we can learn from 2023 event organizers http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10014 Author: Fernanda H. P. de Moraes, Kangjoo Lee, and Julia W. Y. KamEditors: Simon Steinkamp, Yohan Yee, Kevin Sitek, Elisa Guma Learn about the 2023 OHBM Kids Live Review - a series interactive events engaging children with neuroscience The 2023 OHBM Kids Live Review was the largest event since its first edition in 2021. What initially began as an opportunity for kids to review a manuscript specifically written for kids (e.g. 8–14 years old) in front of a live audience ultimately [...] Organization for Human Brain Mapping NITRC ADMIN Wed, 07 Feb 2024 2:57:12 GMT Interview with Eduarda Gervini Zampieri Centeno, 2023 winner of the Brain Structure and Function Award http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10013 Author: Alexander Holmes Editors: Elisa Guma, Elizabeth DuPre, Simon Steinkamp Eduarda tells us about her work developing open-source Python pipelines. Eduarda Gervini Zampieri Centeno is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at the Bordeaux Neurocampus and a part-time Research Assistant at Amsterdam UMC (Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum; VUmc). Passionate about Open Science, her PhD thesis focuses on developing open-source Python pipelines for songbird research and understanding the brain [...] Organization for Human Brain Mapping NITRC ADMIN Tue, 06 Feb 2024 1:56:51 GMT Interview with Dr. Xi-Nian Zuo, 2023 OHBM Class of Fellows http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10011 Author: Yohan YeeEditors: Elisa Guma, Elizabeth Dupre A conversation with Dr. Xi-Nian Zuo, a 2023 OHBM Class Fellow, about his career trajectory.  ​Each year, OHBM honors eminent brain mappers with a Fellow of OHBM distinction. These individuals have “demonstrated academic and intellectual leadership in the disciplines represented by the Society over an extended period of time” and have the right to include FOHBM among their credentials. In 2023, three outstanding indivi [...] Organization for Human Brain Mapping NITRC ADMIN Thu, 01 Feb 2024 2:17:26 GMT Interview with Dr. Aina Puce, 2023 OHBM Class of Fellows http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10006 Author: Naomi GaggiEditors: Elisa Guma, Elizabeth DuPre, Simon Steinkamp, Lavinia Uscatescu, Kevin Sitek Dr. Puce shares her journey as part of the OHBM community, including her service as OHBM Chair from 2020-2022. Dr. Aina Puce is an Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor of Psychological and Brain Science at Indiana University Bloomington. At the 2023 Annual Meeting, she was honored as a Fellow of OHBM for her contributions to the society and her outstanding academic and intellectual leaders [...] Organization for Human Brain Mapping NITRC ADMIN Tue, 23 Jan 2024 9:18:55 GMT Interview with the SPM Team, winner of the Open Science Award 2023 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10005 Author: Elisa Guma​Editors: simon steinkamp, Elizabeth dupre Learn more from the SPM team about open science. Queen Square, home of the FIL and other neuroscience / neurology departments, in the winter snow from a previous year (courtesy of Peter Zeidman) Next in our award winner interview series, we had the chance to hear from this year’s Open Science Award winner, the Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) Team based out of the Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL) at University Colle [...] Organization for Human Brain Mapping NITRC ADMIN Mon, 22 Jan 2024 3:55:14 GMT What language does your dog speak? How dog brains process language http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10002 Author: Alex AlburyEdited by: Elisa guma, kevin sitek Lay summary of article by Cuaya et al. about language representation in the dog brain. If you have a pet, chances are you talk to them, though you may not expect them to actually understand you. But have you ever stopped to think about just how much your furry friends might be listening? Researchers in the Neuroethology of Communication Lab at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary set out to find out just how much dogs unders [...] Organization for Human Brain Mapping NITRC ADMIN Tue, 16 Jan 2024 8:30:26 GMT Interview with Dr. Laura V. Cuaya, winner of the NeuroImage Editor’s Choice Award 2023 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10001 Author: Kevin SitekEditors: Elizabeth Dupre, Alex Albury, elisa guma Interview with Dr. Cuaya, winner of the Neuroimage Editor's Choice award. If you have pet dogs, you surely know how familiar they become with the sound of your voice. But can dogs actually tell the difference between the language you speak with them and other languages they’ve never heard before? Dr. Laura V. Cuaya set out to find out, and her findings in her paper “Speech naturalness detection and language represe [...] Organization for Human Brain Mapping NITRC ADMIN Tue, 16 Jan 2024 8:18:50 GMT What can 12 minutes of fMRI tell you about your fetus’s brain? http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10000 Author: Lavinia Carmen UscătescuEditors: Elisa Guma, Elizabeth Dupre, Kevin sitek Lay summary of publication by Ji et al (2022):  “Fetal behavior during MRI changes with age and relates to network dynamics” That fetuses move inside the womb is nothing new, but how these early movement patterns could predict neonatal health is only beginning to be understood. So far, generally reduced intra-uterine movement has been associated with preterm birth and mild lan [...] Organization for Human Brain Mapping NITRC ADMIN Fri, 12 Jan 2024 8:19:33 GMT Interview with Dr. Lanxin Ji, winner of the Human Brain Mapping Editor’s Choice Award 2023 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9997 Author: Elisa GumaEditors: Elizabeth dupre, kevin sitek Interview with Dr. Lanxin Ji Next in our award winner interview series is Lanxin Ji, who received the Human Brain Mapping Editor’s Choice Award for her paper titled “Fetal behavior during MRI changes with age and relates to network dynamics”. Dr. Ji is currently a postdoctoral fellow at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine in the department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry where she leverages fetal and infant [...] Organization for Human Brain Mapping NITRC ADMIN Tue, 02 Jan 2024 3:35:28 GMT Making Connections: Molecular and connectomic contributions to disease and disorder in the human brain http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9995 Author: ​Alexander Albury Lay summary of article by Hanen JY et al. 2022 examining relationship between multimodally infomred brain connectivity across disorders It's easy to picture the brain as a tangle of wires, criss-crossing and carrying information in all directions. But there's order in the chaos of our brains, with each of these connections serving a purpose by facilitating communication between the many cooperating brain areas necessary for complex behaviors. And in such a [...] Organization for Human Brain Mapping NITRC ADMIN Tue, 19 Dec 2023 7:07:22 GMT