Past Seminars


Arpana Church, PhD
“Adverse Environmental Stressors Impact Health: Perspectives from the Brain and Gut Microbiome ”

June 6, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Brain Mapping Center Room 221 and Zoom: http://tinyurl.com/BMCSeminar126
660 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Shulamite A. Green, PhD
“Altered Sensory Processing in Neurodevelopmental Conditions: From Neuroscience to Intervention”

March 7, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Zoom and Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
Benjamin M. Ellingson, Ph.D.
“Characterizing the microenvironment of primary brain tumors using advanced MRI”

December 7, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Zoom and Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
Meaghan Perdue, PhD
“Metabolites in Healthy Brain Development”

June 1, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Zoom Only: https://tinyurl.com/BMCSeminar122
Andrei Irimia, PhD
“Sex-dependent anatomic patterns of brain aging specific to Alzheimer’s disease revealed using deep learning”

May 4, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Zoom and Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Colin Studholme, PhD
“Studying human cortical development before birth using MRI”

April 6, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/BMCSeminar120a and Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Rebecca Knickmeyer, PhD
“Genes, Microbes, and Brain Development”

March 2, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
https://tinyurl.com/BMCSeminar119
Emily L Dennis, PhD
“Multimodal Analysis of Secondary Cerebellar Alterations after Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury”

February 2, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
zoom: https://tinyurl.com/BMCSeminar118
Roy H. Hamilton, MD, MS
“Stimulating Conversations: Using noninvasive neuromodulation to understand and rehabilitate the language system in aphasia”

December 1, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Zoom and Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Stephanie J. Forkel, HDR PhD SFHEA
“Mapping brain connections: from anatomy to the clinic”

November 3, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/BMCSeminar117
Karim Jerbi, PhD
“Linking electrophysiological brain dynamics to higher-order cognition: New adventures in brain decoding with MEG, EEG and intracranial recordings”

October 6, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Zoom and Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Alex Leow, MD, PhD
“SPECIAL SEMINAR: Lessons I have learned trying to turn our smartphones into brain fitness trackers”

June 3, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Zoom and Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Alex Leow, MD, PhD
“Understanding excitation-inhibition balance in AD pathology: a neuroimaging perspective”

June 2, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Zoom and Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Uri Hasson, PhD
“Using deep neural networks as cognitive models for how brains act in the natural world”

May 5, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Zoom and Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Amber M Leaver, PhD
“Optimizing Dose and Seizure Outcomes in Electroconvulsive Therapy – What Can MRI Contribute?”

April 7, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuf-6vpjwsGd1fkwwfA_nLuoaB1loN7Myu
Catie Chang, PhD
“fMRI of dynamic physiological states”

March 3, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAld-uurjgjHtBUy7qZaZ99l0SMj5QeDFwE
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, PhD, HDR, CNRS
“The Disconnectome”

February 3, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEucumuqj8iE9QYHKZECmqVqsaajgf4iYJW
Lauren J O'Donnell, PhD
“Mapping the Human Brain’s Deep and Superficial White Matter: Big Data and “Small” Data”

December 2, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpcuGtrz8oH9UWb7Jqb-TSnO7Pt7Rn0F8P
Archana Venkataraman, PhD
“Deep Learning for Brain Connectivity: From Network Discovery to Clinical Translation”

November 4, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Zoom AND Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Lucina Q Uddin, PhD
“Network neuroscience approaches for examining brain dynamics and flexible behaviors”

October 7, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qceyopj0pGNNK3U_qbg_J7cKMI7V9P99H
Catherine Lebel, PhD
“White matter development across childhood”

June 3, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlcuisrzgoHd2wos6V_a3ZDK7O1Z7sg-E6
Yogesh Rathi, PhD
“Diffusion MRI data harmonization for large scale data analysis”

May 6, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArcOquqTgiGN2TJVpO-AA8N8qvnzr5Xxce
Yuan Chang Leong, PhD
“An integrative view of motivated cognition”

April 1, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrc--hrjwpH9SshxWYacWiiZ2iQrwAunGT
Jean Fan, PhD
“Molecular and Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling of the Brain”

March 4, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvc-uprTgpGdRnWYDwkserf-FrnP4T51FS
Olusola Ajilore, MD, PhD
“Brain network correlates of negative valence systems in internalizing psychopathologies: Implications for treatment”

February 4, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuc-uhrT8oE929zZozLDWeWBfm3MqjFTnk
Kyan Younes, MD
““Neuroimaging and clinical characteristics of atypical dementias (Creutzfeldt-Jakob and right temporal lobe degeneration)””

December 3, 2020 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvcOqhpjwuE9zFCFdGZvM1QPPuf IdShVVm
Michael A Yassa, PhD
“High-resolution multimodal MRI investigations of human episodic memory”

November 5, 2020 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJModu6vrDgsEt1nZ_hASZiiI1pIzXeBpYlV
Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, PhD
“Using Virtual Reality to Map Brain Mechanisms of Stress and Anxiety Psychopathologies”

October 1, 2020 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
https://uclahs.zoom.us/s/97517723689
Kirsty Donald, PhD
“Neuroimaging of the very young brain in a high risk context: lessons from a South African birth cohort”

June 4, 2020 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpd-ChqTopEtZ7a1LASjo5aHBHme8COBEv
Jonathan Repple, MD
Frank G. Shellock, PhD, FACR, FACC, FISMRM
“MRI Safety: Part III”

April 16, 2020 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Via Zoom
Frank G. Shellock, Ph.D., FACR, FISMRM, FACC
“MRI Safety: Part II”

April 9, 2020 11:00 am - 12:15 pm PDT
Via Zoom
Frank G. Shellock, Ph.D., FACR, FISMRM, FACC
“MRI Safety: Part I”

April 2, 2020 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Via Zoom
Marek Kubicki, MD, PhD
“Advanced Diffusion Analyses and Data Harmonization Methods for Improving Sensitivity and Specificity of Diffusion MRI Studies in Psychosis”

March 5, 2020 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Vinod Kumar, PhD
“Special Seminar - Structural and Functional Anatomy of the Human Thalamus”

February 21, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST
Brain Mapping Seminar Conference Room (221)
660 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Ashish Sahib, PhD
“Imaging Biomarkers of Ketamine in the Depression Connectome”

February 6, 2020 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Theo G.M. van Erp, Ph.D.
“Big Data in Imaging Psychiatry”

December 5, 2019 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Leanne Williams, PhD
“Deriving neural circuit biotypes for depression and anxiety ”

November 7, 2019 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Simon R Cherry, PhD
“Total-Body Positron Emission Tomography: Imaging the Brain and Beyond”

October 3, 2019 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Jamie D. Feusner, MD
“What functional connectivity can tell us about illness states, mechanisms of treatment, and clinical outcomes in obsessive-compulsive disorder”

May 2, 2019 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Justin Haldar, PhD
“Constrained Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Blessings of Dimensionality”

April 4, 2019 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Joyce Wu, MD
“Interictal High Frequency Oscillations: An Epilepsy Biomarker”

March 7, 2019 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Jennifer Silvers, PhD
“Neurodevelopment of self-regulation”

February 7, 2019 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Nader Pouratian, MD, PhD, FAANS FACS
“The Pathology of Synchrony in Parkinson Disease: Insights from Invasive Human Neurophysiology”

December 6, 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Carlo Reverberi, MD, PhD
“Brain network dynamics during spontaneous strategy shifts and incremental task optimization”

November 8, 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center Conference Room (221)
660 Charles E. Young Drive South
Chris Abbot, MD, MS
“Electroconvulsive therapy pulse amplitude and clinical outcomes”

November 1, 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Zhi-De Deng, PhD, MHS(c)
“Computational neurostimulation: engineering better brain stimulation therapies”

October 4, 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Carolyn M. Parkinson, PhD
“Neural Encoding and Cognitive Consequences of Human Social Networks”

June 7, 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Jacopo Annese, PhD
“Patient H.M. and the Human Brain Library”

May 3, 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Cameron McIntyre, PhD
“Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation”

April 5, 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Oliver Genschow, PhD
“Let's unravel the social chameleon: Investigations on the underlying processes of imitation”

March 16, 2018 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center Conference Room (221)
660 Charles E. Young Drive South
Hakwan Lau, PhD
“Unconscious Fear Reduction by Multivoxel Neuro-Reinforcement”

March 1, 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Daniel S. Albrecht, PhD
“In vivo imaging of neuroimmune activation in humans – insights from chronic pain”

February 1, 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center Conference Room (221)
660 Charles E. Young Drive South
Nanthia Suthana, PhD
“Neuroimaging-guided approaches for invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation of human episodic memory”

December 7, 2017 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center Conference Room (221)
660 Charles E. Young Drive South
Amber M. Leaver, PhD
“Neuroimaging and neuromodulation of chronic subjective tinnitus”

November 2, 2017 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Shulamite A. Green, PhD
“Neurobiology of sensory over-responsivity in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Underlying mechanisms and effect on social functioning”

October 12, 2017 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center Conference Room (221)
660 Charles E. Young Drive South
Katherine H Karlsgodt, PhD
“Neuroimaging of executive and reward networks across the psychosis spectrum”

June 1, 2017 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Ivanka Savic-Berglund, MD, PhD
“A new theory about the neurobiology of gender dysphoria”

May 4, 2017 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Andrei Irimia, PhD
“Connectomics, traumatic brain injury and brain aging”

April 6, 2017 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Bernadette T. Gillick, PhD, MSPT, PT
“Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation in Perinatal Stroke”

March 2, 2017 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
James Coan, PhD
“Health, Well Being and the Social Regulation of Effort”

February 2, 2017 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Martin Monti, PhD
“Speak to me: 18 years of neuroimaging in disorders of consciousness -- what have we learned?”

December 1, 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Carrie Bearden, PhD
“Convergent mechanisms of psychosis risk in clinical and genetic high risk populations”

November 3, 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Katherine Narr, PhD
“Imaging biomarkers of clinical response to ECT in major depressive disorder”

June 2, 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Yaling Yang, PhD
“Neural mechanisms of gene-environment interaction effects in the development of conduct problems”

May 5, 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Alexander Huth, PhD
“Mapping representations of meaning in the human cortex”

April 7, 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Brad Postle, PhD
“Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Attention and Working Memory”

March 3, 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
E. Mark Haacke, PhD
“Research insights in MRI and their application to neurovascular imaging”

January 13, 2016 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center Conference Room (221)
660 Charles E. Young Drive South
Marom Bikson, PhD
“How does tDCS work for so many things?”

December 10, 2015 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Bernard Mazoyer, PhD, MD
“BIL&GIN, a database for investigating human brain and behaviour lateralization. Design and preliminary findings.”

November 13, 2015 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Alan Anticevic, PhD
“Towards Computational Neuropsychiatry by Combining Neuroimaging, Pharmacology & Computation”

October 1, 2015 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Festschrift for Eran Zaidel, PhD
“Being in balance: The (dis) connected brain”

September 10, 2015 11:00 am - 6:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Giacomo Rizzolatti, M.D.
“2nd Biennial Lovelace Lecture”
Mirror Neurons: Past, Present, and Future
May 28, 2015 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Piotr Winkielman, Ph.D.
““Rational” Emotional Embodiment: Faces, gestures, and concepts in context”

May 7, 2015 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
M. Dylan Tisdall, Ph.D.
“Quantifying and correcting the effects of motion in structural MRI using volumetric navigators (vNavs)”

April 9, 2015 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center Conference Room (221)
660 Charles E. Young Drive South
Vincent P. Clark, Ph.D.
“Neurostimulation Combined with Neuroimaging for Cognitive and Clinical Research”

April 2, 2015 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
David C. Van Essen, Ph.D.
“The Human Connectome Project: Progress and Prospects”

March 5, 2015 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Daniel H. Wolf, M.D., Ph.D.
“Neuroimaging of symptom dimensions in schizophrenia and at-risk adolescents”

January 9, 2015 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Lino Becerra, Ph.D.
“Functional Neuroimaging of Pain and Analgesia”

December 11, 2014 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Gerhard Laub
“From Trio to Prisma: what happens to my research study?”

November 13, 2014 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
635 Charles E. Young Dr. South
Essa Yacoub, Ph.D.
“Special Seminar: Multiband techniques, challenges, and applications for fMRI and diffusion imaging”

June 26, 2014 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center Conference Room (221)
660 Charles E. Young Drive South
Damien Fair, PA-C, Ph.D.
“Using Graph Theory to Inform Heterogeneity in Typical Development and in ADHD”

June 5, 2014 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
Elizabeth R. Sowell, Ph.D.
“Looking inside the adolescent brain and assessing the impact of perinatally acquired HIV”

May 1, 2014 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
Dylan J. Edwards, Ph.D., P.T.
“Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and Robotics in Human Motor Recovery”

April 10, 2014 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
Jesse Rissman, Ph.D.
“A shared role for rostral prefrontal cortex in memory and reasoning”

March 6, 2014 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
Elizabeth Aylward, Ph.D.
David Shattuck, Ph.D.
“Computational Methods for MRI Segmentation, Registration, Connectivity Analysis and Visualization”

December 5, 2013 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
Hengyi Rao, Ph.D.
“Brain Imaging of Sleep Deprivation and Recovery”

November 7, 2013 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Neuroscience Research Building (NRB 132)
Zohar Eviatar, Ph.D.
“Resolution of Ambiguity: Clues to the Mechanisms of Reading”

September 26, 2013 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Brain Mapping Center Conference Room (221)
Brian B. Avants, Ph.D.
“ANTs, Eigenanatomy and Neural Signature of Social Experience”

July 17, 2013 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Brain Mapping Center Conference Room (221)
Moriah E. Thomason, Ph.D.