F.M. Kirby Research Center - Scientific Events

Symposia and Workshops

First F.M. Kirby Research Symposium
This symposium was held in Tilghman Hall on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The event was sponsored by the F.M. Kirby Research Center and Philips Medical Systems and was attended by 165 people. Sixteen talks were presented by internationally recognized leaders in brain imaging, and by researchers from the local community. (May 11, 1999)

Introductory Symposium
This symposium was held in Houck Hall on the campus of the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. It featured an introduction to the planned Kirby Center resources, then 29 short talks on related research programs. Eighty-five people attended from a variety of local institutions. Topics ranged from biomedical engineering design for fMRI research to brain physiology and cognitive process accessible through these fMRI technologies. (January 9, 1999)

Seminars

"fMRI Methods: A Tool for Generating Hypothesis"
A. Vania Apkarian, Director of Pain Research, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, Syracuse, NY (December 1999)

"Functional Mapping in the Cat Primary Visual Cortex using High Magnetic Fields"
Kim Dae-Shik, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Department Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota Medical School (December 1999)

Journal Club

The weekly journal club is an ongoing event that consists of critical discussion of important issues related to fMRI. One to two journal articles are presented and discussed per meeting. Up to 3 dozen faculty and technical personnel from local institutions attend each session. A sample topic list in included in the table below. For a more recent topic list please go to the fmri journal club's web page maintained by Vince Calhoun.

February 1999	B.R. Lennox, S. Bert, G. Park, P.B. Jones, and P.G. Morris, Spatial and Temporal mapping of neural activity associated with auditory hallucinations Lancet, vol. 353(9153), Feb 20, 1999. P.K. McGuire, G.M.S. Shah, R.M. Murray, "Increased blood flow in Broca's area during auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia", Lancet, vol. 342, pp 703-706, 1993.
March 1999	Menon RS, Luknowsky DC, Gati JS, "Mental Chronometry using latency-resolved functional MRI", PNAS, Vol 95, pp. 10902-10907, Sept 1998.
	Schroder J, et al., "Motor dysfunction and sensorimotor cortex activation changes in schizophrenia: A study with functional magnetic resonance imaging.", Neuroimage. 1999 Jan;9(1):81-7. Lee KM, et al., "Subregions within the supplementary motor area activated at different stages of movement preparation and execution.", Neuroimage. 1999 Jan;9(1):117-23
	Malonek, D. et.al., "Vascular imprints of neuronal activity: Relationships between the dynamics of cortical blood flow, oxygenation, and volume changes following sensory stimulation", PNAS, vol. 94, pp. 14826-14831.
	Toni I, et al. "Signal-, set- and movement-related activity in the human brain: an event-related fMRI study.", Cereb Cortex. 1999 Jan-Feb;9(1):35-49.
April 1999	A.A. Stevens, P.S. Goldman-Rakic, J.C. Gore, R.K. Fulbright, and B.E. Wexler, "Cortical dysfunction in schizophrenia during auditory word and tone working memory demonstrated by functional magnetic resonance imaging" Arch.Gen.Psychiatry, vol. 55, pp. 1097-1103, Dec, 1998.
	Menon RS, Goodyear BG, "Submillimeter Functional Localization in Human Striate Cortex Using BOLD Contrast at 4 Tesla: Implications for the Vascular Point-Spread Function", Mag. Res. Med., 41:230-235, 1999.
	Chandan J. Vaidya, Glenn Austin, Gary Kirkorian, Hugh W. Ridlehuber, John E. Desmond, Gary H. Glover, and John D. E. Gabrieli, "Selective effects of methylphenidate in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A functional magnetic resonance study" PNAS 1998 95: 14494-14499. [Can be downloaded at www.pnas.org] S. Konishi, K. Nakajima, I. Uchida, K. Sekihara and Y. Miyashita , "No-go dominant brain activity in human inferior prefrontal cortex revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging", Euro. J. of Neuro, vol. 10 #3, pp 1209-1213.
	Howseman AM, Grootoonk S, Porter DA, Ramdeen J, Holmes AP, Turner R, "The Effect of Slice Order and Thickness on fMRI Activation Data Using Multislice Echo-Planar Imaging", Neuroimage 1999 Apr;9(4):363-376
	Birn RM, Bandettini PA, Cox RW, Shaker R, "Event-related fMRI of tasks involving brief motion.", Hum Brain Mapp 1999;7(2):106-14
May 1999
	Servos P et. al., "fMRI evidence for an inverted face representation in human somatosensory cortex", Neuroreport, 1999, pp. 1393. James T et. al., "repetition priming and the time course of object recognition: an fMRI study", Neuroreport, 1999, pp 1019-1023.
	K.D. Davis et al., "Event related fMRI of pain: Entering a new era of imaging pain", Neuroreport, 9:3019-3023, 1998
June 1999	Burock MA, et al., "Randomized event-related experimental designs allow for extremely rapid presentation rates using functional MRI", Neuroreport. 1998 Nov 16;9(16):3735-9. Raz, Jonathon, "Linear Models for Event-Related fMRI Time Series with Overlapping Responses" in preparation.
July 1999	M D'Esposito, GK Aguirre, E Zarahn, D Ballard, RK Shin and J Lease, "Functional MRI studies of spatial and nonspatial working memory", Cognitive Brain Research, V 7, pp 1 - 13, 1998.
July 1999	Berns GS, Song AW, Hao H, "Continuous Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals Dynamic Nonlinearities of "Dose-Response" Curves for Finger Opposition", J Neuro., Vol. 19, pp 1-6, 1999.
August 1999	Heidi A. Baseler, Antony B. Morland, and Brian A. Wandell, "Topographic Organization of Human Visual Areas in the Absence of Input from Primary Cortex", J Neurosci 1999 May 15;19(10):3962-72.
	Johnsrude, I.S., Owen, A.M., Crane, J., Milner, B., & Evans, A.C. (1999) "A cognitive activation study of memory for spatial relationships" Neuropsychologia, 37, 829-841.
	D'Esposito M, Zarahn E, Aguirre G.K., et.al., "The Effect of Pacing of Experimental Stimuli on Observed Functional MRI Activity", NeuroImage 6:113-121, 1997.
September 1999	Fransson P, Kruger G, et. al., "MRI of Functional Deactivation: Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Oxygenation-Sensitive Responses in Human Visual Cortex", NeuroImage 9:611-618, 1999.
September 1999	Susumu Mori, Walter E. Kaufmann, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Barbara J. Crain, Bram Stieltjes, Meiyappan Solaiyappan, and Peter C.M. van Zijl, In Vivo Visualization of Human Neural Pathways by MRI, in preparation. Conturo TE, Lori NF, Cull TS, Akbudak E, Snyder AZ, Shimony JS, McKinstry RC, Burton H, Raichle ME, Tracking neuronal fiber pathways in the living human brain., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999 Aug 31;96(18):10422-10427.
October 1999	C. N. Guy, D. H. ffytche, A. Brovelli, J. Chumillas, "fMRI and EEG Responses to Periodic Visual Stimulation", NeuroImage 10(2), p125-148.
	Belin P, Zatorre RJ, Hoge R, Evans AC, Pike B, Event-Related fMRI of the Auditory Cortex. Neuroimage 1999 Oct;10(4):417-429.
	Thomas Dierks, David E. J. Linden, Martin Jandl, Elia Formisano, Rainer Goebel, Heinrich Lanfermann, and Wolf Singer, "Activation of Heschl's Gyrus during Auditory Hallucinations" Neuron, Vol. 22, 615621, March, 1999.
November 1999	"Functional Imaging of Implicit Memory Dysfunction in Subcortical Disease"
	Carter CS et al., Anterior cingulate cortex, error detection, and the online monitoring of performance, Science 280:747-749.
	Peyron, R., Garcia-Larrea, L., Gregoire, M., Costes, N., Lavenne, F., Mauguiere, F., Michel, D., and Laurent, B.Converse, P., Haemodynamic brain responses to acute pain in humans Sensory and attentional networks, Brain September 1999 (Part 9), Vol. 122, pp. 1765-1779.
January 2000	Thierry G, Boulanouar K, Kherif F, Ranjeva JP, Demonet JF. Temporal sorting of neural components underlying phonological processing. Neuroreport. 1999 Aug 20;10(12):2599-2603.
January 2000	Ivo Vanzetta and Amiram Grinvald, "Increased Cortical Oxidative Metabolism Due to Sensory Stimulation: Implications for Functional Brain Imaging" Science (1999, Vol 286, 1555-1558)
February 2000	Sabatini U, et.al, "Cortical motor reorganization in a kinetic patients with Parkinson's disease: A functional MRI study.", Brain 2000 Feb;123(Pt 2):394-403

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