Neuroimaging Related Content

Transformation at Mass General Brigham: Radiology at McLean

Patients, caregivers, and clinician researchers from across Mass General Brigham (MGB) have expanded access to radiology services at McLean Hospital thanks to the rollout of MGB’s Imaging Service Portal at the imaging center on McLean’s Belmont campus. The project has been a win all around...

Researchers Discover a Significant Problem in Brain Imaging, Identify Fix

In a new study, investigators from McLean Hospital (a member of Mass General Brigham), Harvard Medical School, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program (NIDA-IRP) discovered that the tendency of people’s arousal to wane over the course of brain scans has been distorting...

Video: Lecture – The Alfred Pope Award for Early Career Investigators 2021

Honoring Nathaniel G. Harnett, PhD, and Lauren A.M. Lebois, PhD, McLean Hospital – The Alfred Pope Award for Early Career Investigators Each year, McLean Hospital recognizes young researchers with the Alfred Pope Award for Early Career Investigators. The honor is named for one of the hospital’s most...

Discovery @ McLean Hospital 2018

This edition of Discovery demonstrates some of the depth and breadth of research at McLean Hospital. With hundreds of hardworking researchers who hail from all parts of the world, our robust research program has all the tools to bring research from the bench to the bedside. There is much more...

Foundation Gift Enables Cannabis Research

For a substance that has been used by humans for more than 5,000 years, there remains much to learn about marijuana’s effects on the brain. McLean neuroscientist and clinical researcher Staci Gruber, PhD, has spent more than two decades trying to advance knowledge in this domain. Now, with the help...

Staff Profile: Daniel P. Dickstein, MD, FAAP

Daniel P. Dickstein, MD, FAAP, is a physician-scientist uniquely trained and board-certified in pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and child/adolescent psychiatry. His research lab, the PediMIND Program at McLean Hospital, is focused on identifying the brain and behavior basis behind mental health...

Staff Profile: Julie M. McCarthy, PhD

Julie M. McCarthy, PhD, is a clinician-scientist in the Division of Psychotic Disorders. Her research aims to identify neurobiological and psychosocial treatment targets and develop/evaluate treatments for individuals and families experiencing co-occurring psychotic and substance use disorders. She...

Staff Profile: Jennifer T. Sneider, PhD

Jennifer T. Sneider, PhD, focuses her research on the role of the hippocampus, with a particular interest in characterizing sex differences and the role of the menstrual cycle on hippocampal-based memory function. She has received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to apply magnetic...

Staff Profile: Nathaniel G. Harnett, PhD

Nathaniel G. Harnett, PhD, is a neuroscientist whose research is focused on understanding the brain basis for why some people are more likely to develop stress-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), after trauma. His current work leverages magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...

Staff Profile: Scott E. Lukas, PhD

Scott E. Lukas received his PhD in pharmacology and toxicology in 1979 from the University of Maryland. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, he joined NIDA Addiction Research Center for 18 months before moving to McLean in 1984. Promoted to professor in 2003, Dr. Lukas...

Staff Profile: Stephen J. Kohut, PhD

Stephen J. Kohut, PhD, focuses his research primarily on two main interacting lines of investigation: understanding how alterations in underlying neurobiology alter behavioral responses to drugs, especially stimulants and opioids, and medications discovery for drug misuse and addiction. Dr. Kohut’s...

Staff Profile: Marc J. Kaufman, PhD

Dr. Kaufman is director of McLean Hospital’s Translational Imaging Laboratory, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, co-director of the NIDA T32 post-doctoral training program at McLean, and a Partners Human Research Committee member. He conducts translational research in...

Staff Profile: Staci Gruber, PhD

Staci Gruber, PhD, is the director of the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core and the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) program at McLean Hospital. She is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the application of...

Staff Profile: Dost Öngür, MD, PhD

A native of Istanbul, Turkey, Dr. Öngür has a background in neuroscience and clinical psychiatry. He is currently the chief of the Division of Psychotic Disorders, responsible for three inpatient units, a residential facility, a PACT team, two specialty outpatient clinics, and a community support...

Mass General Brigham Imaging – Belmont

Mass General Brigham Imaging in Belmont is part of a large network of imaging services across the Greater Boston area. Conveniently located in a stand-alone building on McLean Hospital’s campus, it offers musculoskeletal and neurological MRI scans in a tranquil setting. Appointments are available...

Staff Profile: E. Kate Webb, PhD

E. Kate Webb, PhD, is a post-doctoral research fellow with Dr. Kerry Ressler in the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory and Dr. Nathaniel G. Harnett in the Neurobiology of Affective and Traumatic Experiences Laboratory. Dr. Webb conducts both basic and translational research using neuroimaging...

Staff Profile: Cole Korponay, PhD, MPA

Dr. Cole Korponay’s research program in human neuroimaging and behavior emerges from a fusion of diverse training backgrounds. As a post-doctoral research fellow, via a F32-funded neuroanatomy-neuroimaging collaboration with Dr. Suzanne Haber and NIDA, he is leveraging “ground-truth” anatomy data to...

Staff Profile: Lucas Trambaiolli, MSc, PhD

Lucas Trambaiolli, MSc, PhD, has a background in biomedical engineering and neuroscience. His doctoral work combined multimodal neuroimaging, real-time signal processing, and machine learning to identify functional connectivity patterns associated with emotion regulation. He targeted these patterns...