Harvard Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory

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Harvard Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory

• Site PI Martha E. Shenton, Ph.D.

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(http//pnl.bwh.harvard.edu)
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About the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory
The PNL is a new laboratory established in 2005.
Dr. Martha Shenton directs this laboratory and
has worked closely with neuroradiologists,
physicists, neuroscientists, and computer
scientists over the past 18 years in studies
investigating brain abnormalities in
schizophrenia. She and her collaborators,
including Dr. Ron Kikinis the PI of NA-MIC, were
early pioneers for the kind of work being
conducting through NA-MIC, though NA-MIC is at a
much larger scale.
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Information about PNL Contributors to NA-MIC

• James Levitt, M.D. Associate Professor. Works in
  the area of striatal and thalmo-cortical
  abnormalities in schizophrenia. Work with Core 1
  has involved striatal measures with GeorgiaTech
  and caudate measures with UNC.
• Marek Kubicki, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor,
  background in neuroradiology and physics.
  Involved in neuroimaging studies of schizophrenia
  and works on DTI and fMRI studies where he has
  been involved with Core 1 collaborators.
• Sylvain Bouix, Ph.D. Instructor. Background in
  computer science. Point person for our site.
  Involved in most collaborations with Core 1, 2
  and 5.
• Marc Niethammer, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Fellow.
  Recently joined our group from Georgia Tech, and
  is now coordinating collaborations with UNC on
  shape analysis, and Georgia Tech on automated
  segmentation.
• Katharina Quintus, M.Eng. Engineer. Involved in
  software tuning, testing and deployment as well
  as data management for our group.
• Mark Dreusicke, B.A. Research Assistant.
  Involved in Diffusion MR imaging studies with MIT
  Core 1 collaborators, and in Core 5 training, as
  well as software testing for tools developed by
  Core 1.
• Adam Cohen, B.A. Research Assistant. Involved in
  automated segmentation measures with MIT Core 1
  collaborators, as well as in reproducibility
  studies, and Core 5 training.
• Laura Rosow, B.A. Research Assistant. Involved
  in rule based segmentation with Georgia Tech Core
  1 collaborators as well as Core 5 training.

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How NAMIC Fits into Portfolio

• NAMIC constitutes a major effort at the PNL.
• Efforts involve Core 1 work with UNC, MIT,
  GeorgiaTech, and Utah, as well as work with the
  Engineering and Training Core.
• The PNL receives funding from the VA, from NIMH,
  and from private sources of funding.
• The NAMIC project is critical to the PNL as it
  has as its focus ongoing work with collaborators
  who are developing algorithms for DTI, for shape
  analyses, and for new fMRI algorithms to answer
  important questions in the area of schizophrenia
  research.