• Speaker: Brandon Mitchell, from UAB
  
• Topic: Discussion on Jensen's "MVPA analysis of intertrial phase coherence of neuromagnetic responses to words reliably classifies multiple levels of language processing in the brain" in preparation for August 30th talk.

• Speaker: Victor Mark, from UAB
  
• Topic: Neuroimaging of Functional Neurological Disorder: Do Normal Findings Mean No Neurological Disorder? So Is It All In My Mind?

• Speaker: Frederic Briend, from UAB
  
• Topic: Approaches in proton MRS methodology: clinical applications in antipsychotic-naive first episode psychosis subjects

• Speaker: Brandon Mitchell, from UAB
  
• Topic: VBM + SBM

• Speaker: William Monroe, from UAB
  
• Topic: Data Science Club

• Speaker: Melissa Thye, from UAB
  
• Topic: Methodological Considerations For Lesion Symptom Mapping Analyses

• Speaker: Leland Fleming, from UAB
  
• Topic: Modular Brain Network Organization Predicts Response to Cognitive Training in Older Adults

• Speaker: Graham Cochrane, from UAB
• Topic: Gale et al., 2016 J. Neurophysiol

• Please volunteer with UAB @ McWane Science Center, if you can

• Speaker: Amal Kaddoumi, PhD, from Auburn University
• Topic: TBD

• Speaker: Heather Dark, from UAB
• Topic: The relationship between resting state functional connectivity and the psychophysiological response to stress

• Speaker: Thomas DeRamus, PhD, from Mind Research Network
• Topic: Alexa, Analyze My Data: Things to Consider When Automating and Interpreting MRI Data

• Speaker: Video of a talk by Eric Jonas, PhD, from UC Berkeley
• Topic: Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?

• Speaker: Matthew Defenderfer, from UAB
• Topic: Resting state connectivity differences in eyes open versus eyes closed conditions

• Speaker: Yue Zhang, from UAB
• Topic: Comparison of SVS & WB-MRSI for brain metabolite quantification

• Speaker: Pinar Demirayak, PhD, from UAB
• Topic: Predictive feedback to V1 dynamically updates with sensory input
  

• Speaker: Lara Ianov, PhD, from UAB
• Topic: GitLab
  

• Speaker: Matthew Defenderfer, BS, from UAB
• Topic: Precision Functional Mapping of Individual Human Brains

• Speaker: Leland Fleming, BS, from UAB
• Topic: Activity or Connectivity?: Dissecting Task-Based Brain Modulation

• Speaker: Rodolphe Nenert, PhD, from UAB
• Topic: Interactive Seminar in Data Visualization: Brains
  

• Speaker: William Monroe, MS, from UAB
• Topic: Automated Brainstem Co-registration (ABC) for MRI
  

• Speaker: Melissa Thye, MA, from UAB
• Topic: Interactive Seminar in Data Visualization: Graphs + Charts in R
  

• Speaker: William Monroe, MS, from UAB
• Topic: Neurite Density and You, understanding and running NODDI
  

• Speaker: Kristina Bell, BA, from UAB
• Topic: Neighborhood Disadvantage, Cumulative Violence and White Matter
  

• Speaker: Group Discussion
• Topic: Plans for 2018-2019 year of Neuroimaging journal club and Brain Core seminar series

• Speaker: Group Discussion
• Topic: Computer Science + Neuroscience: Opportunities for collaboration, teaching, and curriculum
  

• Speaker: John-Paul Robinson
• Topic: Computer Science + Neuroscience: Tools for efficiency + outcomes of Brainhack

Previous Brain Core Speakers: 

May 11, 2018 - CINL Brain Core: Think Global, Connectome Local, Tim Verstynen, PhD, from Carnegie Mellon University

April 27, 2018: Functional Brain Networks are Dominated by Stable Group and Individual Factors, Not Cognitive or Daily Variation, Leland Fleming, BS, from UAB

April 20, 2018: Cortical Map Plasticity Improves Learning but Is Not Necessary for Improved Performance, Matt Defenderfer, BS, from UAB

March 30, 2018: Brain Awareness Week (Neuroimaging Journal Club Cancelled)

March 23, 2018: Early Mesencephalic Gray Matter Changes Predict Disability in Parkinson’s Disease Frank Skidmore, MD, from UAB

March 2, 2018: Computer science + Neuroscience: Opportunities for collaboration

Feb 9, 2018: "An unfortunate number of things indexed by head motion" Jonathan Power, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical School

December 15, 2017: "Stimulus Locked Network Dynamics" Chris Honey, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

October 13, 2017: "CMEG in epilepsy care: Current applications and the need for innovation" Ismail Mohamed, M.D., FAAP, FRCPC, UAB

September 8, 2017: "Corrections for multiple comparisons in voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping" Daniel Mirman, PhD, UAB

June 9, 2017: Hyemin Han, PhD, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

May 12, 2017: "Threats to Valid Inference in fMRI" Tal Yarkoni, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

April 14, 2017: "Stress reactivity in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures" Jane Allendorfer, PhD, UAB

March 3, 2017: "Diffusion Imaging" Anastasia Yendiki, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital

Feb 3, 2017: "Eddy for FSL: dealing with noise in diffusion images" Jesper Andersson, PhD, writer of EDDY software for Diffusion in FSL

December 2, 2016: "Power analysis for neuroimaging studies: Past, present and future" Jeanette Mumford, PhD, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

November 4, 2016: "TBA" Purushotham V. Bangalore, PhD, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Interim Director of Research Computing, UAB.

October 7, 2016: No seminar due to CCTS Retreat

September 9, 2016: "Measuring Human Melanopsin Function" Geoffrey K. Aguirre, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania

August 5, 2016: TBA, Kamil Ugurbil, PhD, Director of the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research at the University of Minnesota.

July-No Seminar:

June 3, 2016: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On: The Artifact Runing your fMRI Data", Erik H. Middlebrooks, Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

May 6, 2016: "Project Quality Assessment Protocol- a resource for measuring the quality of MRI data", Cameron Craddock, PhD., Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research

April 1, 2016: "Microstructural Modeling in Diffusion MRI", Kristi Clark, PhD, University of Southern California, Department of Neurology.

March 4, 2016: "Using XNAT for neuroimaging data management, sharing, and analysis", Daniel S. Marcus, PhD., Director, Neuroimaging Information Analysis Center, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

February 5, 2016: "The future of fMRI in Cognitive Neuroscience", Russel Poldrack, PhD, Stanford University, Department of Psychology.

December 4, 2015: "Age Differences in Brain Functioning During Memory Formation and Retrieval", Ian M. McDonough, University of Alabama, Department of Psychology.

November 6, 2015: "Contributions and Challenges for Network Models in Cognitive Neuroscience", Paper Discussion, presentation by Jarrod Hicks.

October 2, 2015: "Resting State Functional Connectivity: Methods, Debates and Clinical Applications" Susan Whitfield Gabrieli, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

August 7, 2015: "Research Computing, Storage, and Networks: the UAB vision and other imperatives for innovation" Curtis Carver, PhD, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, UAB Information Technology

June 5, 2015: "Which fMRI Analysis Software?" Speakers: David Knight, PhD, Department of Psychology; Rodolphe Nenert, PhD, Department of Neurology; Rishi Deshpande, MS, Department of Radiology.

May 1, 2015: "13C MRS Studies of Brain Metabolism of Alcohol and Acetate" Speaker: Graeme F. Mason, PhD, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine.

April 3, 2015: "Generalized Psychophysical Interactions (gPPI): What are they and What they can tell us" Speaker: Donald McLaren, PhD, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

March 6, 2015: "How do we measure functional connectivity? An interactive discussion of functional connectivity methods" Speaker: Kristina Visscher, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Feb 6, 2015: "High Gradient Diffusion MRI from the Human Connectome Project" Speaker: Koene Van Dijk, PhD, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School.

Jan 9, 2014 : "UAB Research Computing Resources for Neuroimaging Research" Speakers: John-Paul Robinson, Mike Hanby, Thomas Anthony

Nov 21, 2014: "White Matter in the Older Brain is More Plastic than in the Younger Brain" Speaker: Yuka Sasaki, PhD, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University.