Dr. Hakan Ay is an MD with residency training in Neurology and fellowship training in Vascular Neurology. He currently serves as an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School with appointments in both departments of Neurology and Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Ay has 28 y...
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How iPads and Other Tablet Devices Could Improve Communication Skills in People With Autism
In recent years researchers have gained an increased understanding of the relationship between motor skills and the development of language, particularly in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Given the core deficit in verbal communication in children and adults on the spectrum, the improved understa...
Woman of the Year: Alexandra Touroutoglou
The Martinos Center’s Alexandra Touroutoglou has been named Woman of the Year in the “Expatriate” category by the Greek magazine Beauté. She accepted the award during a ceremony at the Athens Concert Hall, which was broadcast on March 8th in recognition of International Women’s Day. The award ...
Estimating Tumor Boundaries in Cancer Surgery With Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, with an estimated 1,762,450 new cases diagnosed and 606,880 deaths in 2019 alone. While important advances have been made in the development of treatments for cancer, including surgery, a number of challenges remain. Not least: sur...
Eva-Maria Ratai
Dr. Eva-Maria Ratai has been Director of Clinical Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) since 2003. After completing her doctoral thesis in physical chemistry at the University of Münster in Germany in 2000, and her first post-doctoral position in the Department ...
The Secret Lives of Martinos Folk: Fighting Stereotypes of Women in Islam, One Karate Kick at a Time
Zeynab Alshelh has practiced karate since she was a young child growing up in Australia. For much of the time she has been involved with the sport, she has focused her efforts on the discipline known as shadow fighting, or Kata. Kata comprises a pre-arranged pattern of movements—kicks and punches...
Sava Sakadzic
Dr. Sakadzic obtained his Ph.D. with Dr. Lihong Wang at Texas A&M University and completed his postdoctoral training with Dr. David Boas at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His group is developing state-of-the-art optical microscopy imaging technologies and utilizing them to better understand ...
Good News for PET Researchers: Radiotracer binding Is less sensitive to blood flow than previously thought
In a Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism paper published last month, the Martinos Center’s Christin Sander and colleagues resolved a longstanding question in positron emission tomography studies. PET has played a crucial role in receptor binding studies, shedding light on a range o...
MEG Method May Hold the Secret to Baldness
A variety of factors can stop hair from forming and growing properly, leading to hair diseases and baldness. A new method developed recently by investigators at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging examines the activity of hair follicles and could be useful for testing the effects of di...
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 the Athino...
Matti Hämäläinen Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of the MGH Martinos Center's Matti Hämäläinen to its College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biologica...
Randy Gollub Named Chair-Elect of OHBM, Floats Idea of Ska Band’s Return
The Martinos Center’s Randy Gollub has been elected to be the next Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), an international society launched by Center researchers a quarter century ago. She is delighted to be able to step into the role: not least because of the many “resonanc...
Martinos Center Benefactors Honored by the Greek Orthodox Church
Many biomedical research centers have been named in honor of the donors who, through their generous support, are helping to advance work done in the particular areas of investigation. We know these donors’ names, and associate them with the research the centers produce. Less familiar to us, thoug...
Moving Beyond Biopsy for Liver Fibrosis
Chronic liver disease is a growing health concern in the U.S. and around the world, with links to alcoholism, diabetes and even obesity. One of the early manifestations of the disease is fibrosis, an excessive buildup of scar tissue that results from repeated injury to the liver. While its effect...
Deep Learning Offers Quantitative Means of Monitoring Disease Progression in Retinopathy of Prematurity
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is an eye disorder affecting roughly two-thirds of premature infants weighing less than 250 g at birth and one of the leading causes of childhood blindness worldwide. Historically, clinical diagnosis of ROP has been subjective, resulting in considerable variabilit...
Mesoscale Brain Mapping: Bridging Scales and Modalities in Neuroimaging
Recent advances both in the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and elsewhere are driving the convergence of microscopic- and macroscopic-scale study of the brain for human translational neuroscience, by developing and applying tools to study the spatial distribution and temporal orchestra...
Bastien Guerin
Dr. Guerin's research focuses on MRI (and to some extent PET) technology development and translation to neuro-imaging to help better understand the human brain. He has several areas of specialization: (i) Modeling and optimization of radio-frequency (RF) and gradient MR sub-systems. Dr. Geurin's...
Matti Hämäläinen
Matti Hämäläinen is a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the David Cohen Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Laboratory at the Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital. He is one of the pioneers in the application of MEG in conjunction with other non-invasive...
Heidi Jacobs
The Jacobs Lab aims to detect the earliest brain changes that contribute to cognitive decline and behavioral changes associated with the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease. Our focus is on neuroimaging method development, biomarker evaluation and testing new preventive interventions targeting...
The Center’s Yingying Ning Recognized for Her Work on Imaging Tissue Fibrogenesis
Yingying Ning, a postdoctoral fellow in the Caravan Lab at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, received the Young Investigator Award at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) last month. The award recognizes Dr. Ning’s robust work in developing molecular magnetic resonance (MR) pr...