Wellness Resources

To offer support to its staff and researchers, Partners, MGH, and several other groups have put together resources that address the challenges we may be facing in our day-to-day lives as we handle this unique situation. Here, we compile those resources & information to make it easier for you ...

The Martinos Center’s Got Talent!

On Wednesday, January 11, the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging will stage its first-ever talent show, aptly titled: "The Martinos Center's Got Talent!" The event will showcase the many, varied talents of folks from across the center, from accordion playing to ballroom dancing, from stan...

Lab Site Directory

A1 Pain Imaging Lab Auditory Cognition Lab Brain Aging and Dementia (BAnD) Lab Brainstem Imaging Lab The Caravan Lab Center for Integrative Pain NeuroImaging (CIPNI) Cerebrovascular Aging and Spin Labeling Lab (CASL) Chemical Neuroscience Program Clinical Computational...

Randy Gollub

Randy Gollub, MD, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry at HarvardĀ Medical School and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry with a secondaryĀ appointment in Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she servesĀ as the Associate Director of Translational Research in the NeuroimagingĀ Research Program. ...

Science on Tap

Science on Tap is a weekly Friday afternoon social where members of the Martinos community gather to eat, maybe have a libation or two, and get to know each otherā€™s work a little better. Every meeting features a 10 to 15 minute talk by a Martinos employee about their latest research, including wo...

Acupuncture Yields Improved Outcomes in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Though the practice of acupuncture predates current understanding of physiology by several millennia, it often provides measureable improvements in health outcomes, particularly in the area of chronic pain. Now, in a study reported in the journal Brain, a team of investigators based at theĀ Athino...

Publications Updates

May 11, 2020 The presubiculum links incipient amyloid and tau pathology to memory function in older persons Jacobs HIL, Augustinack JC, Schultz AP, Hanseeuw BJ, Locascio J, Amariglio RE, Papp KV, Rentz DM, Sperling RA, Johnson KA. Neurology. 2020 May 5;94(18):e1916-e1928. doi: 10.1212/WNL.00...

Ciprian Catana

Dr. Catana is director of Integrated MR-PET Imaging at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and a Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He has extensive experienceĀ in combining PET and MRI and is currently focusing on developing quantitativeĀ MR-PET for human use. Working clo...

Karl Helmer

Karl Helmer, PhD, maintains research interests in several areas: (1) the creation of data managementĀ and sharing infrastructure; (2) the development of imaging protocols forĀ multi-site MR imaging-based studies; (3) the creation of quality control and assessment software for MRI data; and (4) deve...

Eve Valera

Dr. Valera is an Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Research Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has worked in the field of domestic violence for nearly 25 years using a range of methodologies to understand the neural, neuropsychological and psychologic...

Andre van der Kouwe

Dr. van der Kouwe does research in the field of MRI pulse sequence design and image analysis. He supports neuroscience research at the MGH and collaborating institutions by improving acquisition methods, providing techniques such as high-reliability imaging for quantitative brain morphometry with...