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The LONI Grad Student Experience. Structure and organization of the lab from a student's perspectiveNature of the research programs (OIS, structural MRI, fMRI)Relationship of LONI to the Brain Mapping Center (BMC)Benefits of training in LONI. The LONI Grad Student Experience. Structure and or
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2. The LONI Grad Student Experience Structure and organization of the lab from a students perspective
Nature of the research programs (OIS, structural MRI, fMRI)
Relationship of LONI to the Brain Mapping Center (BMC)
Benefits of training in LONI
3. The LONI Grad Student Experience Structure and organization of the lab from a students perspective
Lab Director: Arthur Toga
Lab Faculty: K.C. Brennan, Ivo Dinov, Hongwei Dong, Katherine Narr, David Shattuck, Elizabeth Sowell, Paul Thompson, Zhuown Tu, Jack Van Horn
Programming: LONI Pipeline Processing Environment
Software Development: Debabeler tool, AIR, MultiTracer, BrainSuite
Visualization Group: LONI Shape Viewer, Scientific animations
4. The LONI Grad Student Experience Nature of the research programs
OIS (Toga, Brennan)
Structural MRI (Narr, Sowell, Thompson, Van Horn)
fMRI (Narr, Sowell, Van Horn)
Atlas construction (Toga and Thompson)
Statistical analyses of imaging data (Dinov)
Software development and implementation (Shattuck)
5. The LONI Grad Student Experience Current NSIDP Grad Students
Janelle Taylor (Toga)
Morphometric analyses of language related brain regions in normal, autistic, and schizophrenic populations.
Nathan Hageman (Toga)
Development of algorithms for the analysis of diffusion tensor imaging data.
Libby OHare (Sowell)
Structure and function relationships in the developing
cerebro-cerebellar system.
6. The LONI Grad Student Experience Current NSIDP Grad students continued
Xue Hua (Toga)
Using tensor based morphometry to understand the maturation process of normal and autistic brain development.
Lara Foland (Thompson)
Structure and functional abnormalities in patients with bipolar disorder.
Veena Narayan (Toga & Narr)
The neural correlates of impulsivity and violence. Currently
examining cortical thickness measures in anti-social personality
disorder.
7. The LONI Grad Student Experience Relationship of LONI to the Brain Mapping Center (BMC)
fMRI vs. structural MRI research at UCLA
Data acquisition (collection vs. collaboration)
8. The LONI Grad Student Experience Benefits of training in LONI
research funding
technical support
facilities/infrastructure
nature of advising relationships