The University of Connecticut Honors Program and Health Center invite you to:
The 2014 John and Valerie Rowe Lecture: “Functional MRI: How Emerging Technology is Transforming Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders”
Lecture By: Dr. Michal Assaf, Director of the Autism and Functional Mapping (AM-FM) at Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Assistant Professor (Adjunct) in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Trinity College.
Dr. Michal Assaf has studied mental illnesses by implementing cognitive neuroscience and advanced neuroimaging methods such as fMRI and DTI. Her research encompasses a variety of brain disorders, including autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety disorder, as well as substance abuse and addiction. In addition to her research activities, Dr. Assaf leads the Presurgical Functional Mapping program at Hartford Hospital in collaboration with the Department of Neurosurgery, and directs the implementation of structural and functional navigation for the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) research program.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact: Rowe Scholars Program at rowescholars@uconn.edu