From reza.adalat at mcgill.ca Mon May 8 18:21:05 2023 From: reza.adalat at mcgill.ca (R. ADALAT) Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 18:21:05 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?utf-8?q?Special_Lecture=3A_=22Benjamin_Becker_-_?= =?utf-8?q?Neuropeptide_regulation_of_emotion_and_motivation_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93_a_precision_pharmaco-imaging_approach=2E=22_-_?= =?utf-8?q?Wednesday=2C_May_10th=2E_2023_at_3=3A00_PM=2E_-_In_perso?= =?utf-8?q?n_meeting_at_de_GrandPre_Communication_Centre?= Message-ID: Hi everybody, On behalf of Dr. Evans, the details of the Special Lecture By Dr. Becker are below. Please mark your agenda and attend. Please feel free to extend this invitation to other colleagues and collaborators who might be interested. See you, rz >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Title:* Neuropeptide regulation of emotion and motivation ? a precision pharmaco-imaging approach. *Lecturer:* Dr. Benjamin Becker *Abstract:* Accumulating evidence from animal models and human neuroimaging studies suggests that neuropeptides such as oxytocin and renin-angiotensin regulate emotional and motivational functions and may have a considerable potential for translation into novel treatments for mental disorders. The present talk will outline convergent evidence for a regulatory role of the oxytocin system in the regulation of fear and describe challenges in the translation of intra-nasal oxytocin into clinical application. Next the talk will describe the systematic determination of the role of the angiotensin-renin II system in fear and motivational functions in humans via the application of a novel precision pharmaco-imaging framework that combines pharmacological fMRI with transcriptomics, behavioral modeling, and multivariate signatures. *Bio: *Benjamin Becker is currently a Full Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Cognitive, Affective and Motivational Neuroscience Lab at the University of Electronic Science and Technology (UESTC) in Chengdu, China. He received his Diploma and Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in Psychology at the Universities of Trier and Duesseldorf in Germany and continued his research at the University of Bonn (Germany) to receive further training in neuroscience and advanced neuroimaging. His research aims at determining how the brain regulates emotional experiences, how these mechanisms become dysfunctional in stress-related mental disorders and how these processes are regulated by neuropeptides and serotonin. To this end his team capitalizes on an entire array of neuroscience methods including the combination of fMRI with pharmacological and real-time closed loop modulation and as well as neural decoding and computational modelling. He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, including papers in Nature Communications, Advanced Science, PNAS, Molecular Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, etc. He serves as active editorial board member of several journals, including Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychopharmacology, and Psychoradiology, was founding specialty editor in chief or Frontiers in Social and Affective Neuroimaging as well as co-founder and co-director of the COVID-induced brain dysfunctions working group of the Global Brain Consortium. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From reza.adalat at mcgill.ca Wed May 10 07:04:42 2023 From: reza.adalat at mcgill.ca (R. ADALAT) Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 07:04:42 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?utf-8?q?Reminder=3A_Special_Lecture=3A_=22Benjam?= =?utf-8?q?in_Becker_-_Neuropeptide_regulation_of_emotion_and_motiv?= =?utf-8?q?ation_=E2=80=93_a_precision_pharmaco-imaging_approach=2E?= =?utf-8?q?=22_-_Wednesday=2C_May_10th=2E_2023_at_3=3A00_PM=2E_-_In?= =?utf-8?q?_person_meeting_at_de_GrandPre_Communication_Centre?= Message-ID: On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 6:02?PM R. ADALAT wrote: > Hi everybody, > > On behalf of Dr. Evans, the details of the Special Lecture By Dr. Becker are > below. Please mark your agenda and attend. Please feel free to extend > this invitation to other colleagues and collaborators who might be > interested. > > > See you, > rz >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *Title:* Neuropeptide regulation of emotion and motivation ? a precision > pharmaco-imaging approach. > > *Lecturer:* Dr. Benjamin Becker > > *Abstract:* Accumulating evidence from animal models and human > neuroimaging studies suggests that neuropeptides such as oxytocin and > renin-angiotensin regulate emotional and motivational functions and may > have a considerable potential for translation into novel treatments for > mental disorders. The present talk will outline convergent evidence for a > regulatory role of the oxytocin system in the regulation of fear and > describe challenges in the translation of intra-nasal oxytocin into > clinical application. Next the talk will describe the systematic > determination of the role of the angiotensin-renin II system in fear and > motivational functions in humans via the application of a novel precision > pharmaco-imaging framework that combines pharmacological fMRI with > transcriptomics, behavioral modeling, and multivariate signatures. > > *Bio: *Benjamin Becker is currently a Full Professor of Cognitive > Neuroscience and Director of the Cognitive, Affective and Motivational > Neuroscience Lab at the University of Electronic Science and Technology > (UESTC) in Chengdu, China. He received his Diploma and Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) > in Psychology at the Universities of Trier and Duesseldorf in Germany and > continued his research at the University of Bonn (Germany) to receive > further training in neuroscience and advanced neuroimaging. His research > aims at determining how the brain regulates emotional experiences, how > these mechanisms become dysfunctional in stress-related mental disorders > and how these processes are regulated by neuropeptides and serotonin. To > this end his team capitalizes on an entire array of neuroscience methods > including the combination of fMRI with pharmacological and real-time closed > loop modulation and as well as neural decoding and computational modelling. > He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, > including papers in Nature Communications, Advanced Science, PNAS, > Molecular Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, etc. He serves as active > editorial board member of several journals, including Psychotherapy and > Psychosomatics, Psychopharmacology, and Psychoradiology, was founding > specialty editor in chief or Frontiers in Social and Affective Neuroimaging > as well as co-founder and co-director of the COVID-induced brain > dysfunctions working group of the Global Brain Consortium. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Duke, ?tats-Unis 17 mai 2023 16 h 00 Centre de communications de Grandpr?, Le Neuro, 3801, rue University *La pr?sentation sera en anglais ______________________________________________________________________________ Strategic Neuromodulation of Human Memory: New Categories of Memory Mechanism Alison Adcock Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, USA Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, USA May 17, 2023 4:00 p.m. De Grandpr? Communications Centre, The Neuro, 3801, University Street Abstract: The same neurotransmitter systems that fine tune our memories take the multifaceted mental images that embody our hopes and fears and distill them into simple signals. This capability implies that we can regulate our own brain chemistry using imagination. Using fMRI, we have demonstrated that people can indeed learn to activate small nuclei ? specifically, those that produce most of the brain?s dopamine -- using nothing but mental imagery. Like the discovery that runners can trigger endorphin release with physical activity, the self-regulation of neurochemistry with mental activity suggests many methods for changing brain function in response to the current moment. Our discovery science investigates brain systems for motivation to better understand memory mechanisms and neurotransmitter systems. Specifically, we aim to delineate the full range of motivational states that shape human learning and their distinct neural architectures, each with a signature impact on learning and on the memories that underlie behavior. Our translational work aims to help define ways to tune a learners? brain state, matching it precisely to a specific challenge. 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Oxford, Angleterre 24 mai 2023 16 h 00 Centre de communications de Grandpr?, Le Neuro, 3801, rue University *La pr?sentation sera en anglais The search for human brain specializations* Nicole Eichert Sir Henry Welcome Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, England May 24, 2023 4:00 p.m. De Grandpr? Communications Centre, The Neuro, 3801, University Street Abstract: Our cognitive abilities are often thought of as uniquely human, but we can see the roots of these behaviours in our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. Therefore, a comparative approach that spans different species can be useful in understanding how the human brain evolved and how brain anatomy supports these functions. Thanks to recent advances in comparative neuroimaging, we can now study a larger number of species with greater anatomical detail, characterizing features such as connectivity, microstructure, and morphology. By creating multimodal maps of brain architecture that allow for a "common space" approach, we can distinguish between different forms of anatomical specialization and generate new testable hypotheses. In this presentation, I will discuss a series of studies where we applied this analysis framework to investigate the neurobiology of the primate brain. The Feindel Seminar Series at The Neuro Advances the vision of Dr. William Feindel (1918?2014), Former Director of the Neuro (1972?1984), to constantly bridge the clinical and research realms. The talks will highlight the latest advances and discoveries in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging. Speakers will include scientists from across The Neuro, as well as colleagues and collaborators locally and from around the world. 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Although this has been announced and discussed on twitter and email lists, we know that some colleagues may not be aware of these events - therefore, we are emailing this one-time update to all corresponding author email addresses appearing on NeuroImage papers from the last 10 years. We hope that you find this email useful - but if not, please be reassured that we do not currently expect to send another mass email of this kind. The following is largely taken from our public announcement in mid-April, plus some updates on progress with the new journal, Imaging Neuroscience. We would be grateful if you could forward this email to your colleagues, and we very much hope you will submit your work to Imaging Neuroscience! Many thanks, Stephen Smith, Editor-in-Chief, Imaging Neuroscience. Summary: NeuroImage has long been the leading journal focusing on imaging neuroscience, with both the highest impact factor and the largest number of papers published annually. NeuroImage?s editorial team had tried to convince Elsevier to reduce the publication fee from $3,450, as we believe large profit is unethical and unsustainable. Elsevier is unwilling to reduce the fee; therefore, with great regret, all editors (more than 40 academic editors) of NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned. We have started Imaging Neuroscience, a new non-profit Open Access journal with MIT Press, that intends to replace NeuroImage as our field?s leading journal. We are already handling new submissions at imaging-neuroscience.org and are aiming to start publishing papers in July. Background and APC NeuroImage was started in 1992. It published almost 1,000 articles per year and currently has an impact factor of 7.4. NeuroImage became fully OA (Open Access) in 2020. NeuroImage:Reports is a companion-journal started in 2021, promoting the publication of null findings and article types such as Registered Reports. Elsevier set the NeuroImage APC (article processing charge) at $3,450 USD. Scientists and funders increasingly feel that it is wrong for publishers to make very high profits, particularly given that the publishers do not fund the original science, or the writing of articles, or payments to reviewers, and pay minimal editorial stipends. As a result, authors and reviewers are increasingly refusing to work with high-profit journals. APC discussions with Elsevier In June 2022 the NeuroImage editors formally requested that Elsevier reduce the APC to under $2,000. As no reduction was offered, we wrote again in March 2023 explaining that we would all resign and start a new journal if the APC was not reduced. In April, Elsevier responded to all editors stating that the APC would not be reduced because they believe that market forces support the current APC. Resignation and handling of current submissions As a result, all editors (more than 40 Handling Editors, Associate Editors, Senior Editors, and Editors-in-Chief) across the two journals have resigned. To avoid adverse impact on authors of papers under current consideration, we will continue to handle ongoing papers that were submitted before our resignation. However, we will not handle new submissions; currently, Elsevier are using new internal staff to handle those. At present the editors at NeuroImage:Clinical have decided to stay on with Elsevier, though they have expressed public support for our move to reduce publication fees. New non-profit journal, Imaging Neuroscience The outgoing NeuroImage/NeuroImage:Reports editors have collectively started a new Open Access, non-profit journal, published by MIT Press. The APC will be held as low as possible: the initial APC will be $1600, which we hope to lower further as the economy of scale improves over time, and/or if we are able to obtain philanthropic sponsorsip. The APC will be waived for low- or middle-income countries. Our ambition is for Imaging Neuroscience to replace NeuroImage as the top journal in our field, focusing on imaging of the brain and spinal cord, in humans and other species, also including neurophysiological and stimulation methods. The overall scope, quality level and entire editorial team is the same as it had been at NeuroImage (combined with the editorial team from NeuroImage:Reports). Our regret and conviction Our editorial team wishes to be clear that we resigned with great regret. We love our field, and are immensely proud that NeuroImage has represented the very best of our science. The editors have invested enormous effort into NeuroImage over many years, and none of us wanted to see it disappear. We have an extremely committed set of editors who are leaders in our field - a very special and highly functional team. We were torn between wanting NeuroImage to continue as our top journal vs our conviction that we need to take a stand on unjustifiable publisher profits. We believe that journals like NeuroImage cannot succeed in the long-term, and we agree with researchers worldwide who increasingly object to unreasonably high costs of publication and access. We therefore believe strongly that we are taking the right action. In that regard, we are reassured by having full explicit support for our action from the four most recent past NeuroImage Editors-in-Chief: Michael Breakspear (Newcastle, Australia), Peter Bandettini (NIH, USA), Paul Fletcher (Cambridge, UK), and Karl Friston (UCL, UK). Our hope for the future We are committed to Imaging Neuroscience not only being the top journal in our field, but also demonstrating the way forward in non-profit publishing. Although we appreciate that commercial publishers need to make some profit, we feel that the era of extreme levels of profit made by some publishers is coming to an end. We are very excited about the new journal. Support for our move has been tremendous - our resignation announcement tweet in April has been viewed 2M times, and resulted in 1200 researchers signing up to become reviewers for Imaging Neuroscience within a week. It also elicited coverage by both scientific and popular media (including Nature News and Times Higher Ed). While we had not anticipated this strength of response, we are proud that our action is garnering attention outside our immediate field. Comments have been overwhelmingly positive, with many also stating that they will no longer submit to or review for NeuroImage. The original announcement was signed by all editors: Stephen Smith (Oxford, UK), Til Ole Bergmann (Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz, Germany), Birte Forstmann (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Alain Dagher (McGill, Montreal, Canada), Shella Keilholz (Emory / Georgia Tech, USA), Kristen Kennedy (UT Dallas, USA), Sonja Kotz (Maastricht, Netherlands), Cindy Lustig (University of Michigan, USA), Bruce Pike (University of Calgary, Canada), Marc Tittgemeyer (Cologne, Germany), Mark Woolrich (Oxford, UK), Thomas Yeo (NUS, Singapore), Andrew Alexander (Madison, Wisconsin, USA), Janine Bijsterbosch (Wash U, St Louis, USA), Tjeerd Boonstra (Maastricht, Netherlands), Mallar Chakravarty (Quebec, Canada), Chris Chambers (Cardiff, UK), Catie Chang (Vanderbilt, USA), Bradley Christian (Madison, Wisconsin, USA), Sarang Dalal (Aarhus, Denmark), Nai Ding (Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China), Audrey Duarte (UT Austin, USA), Audrey Fan (UC Davis, USA), Alexandre Gramfort (Paris-Saclay, France), Gesa Hartwigsen (University of Leipzig and MPI-CBS Leipzig, Germany), Mbemba Jabbi (UT Austin, USA), Ulrike Kr?mer (L?beck, Germany), Martin Lindquist (Johns Hopkins, USA), Jean-Francois Mangin (NeuroSpin, France), Kevin Murphy (Cardiff, UK), Jonathan Polimeni (Harvard, USA), Emma Robinson (KCL, UK), Monica Rosenberg (University of Chicago, USA), Sepideh Sadaghiani (UIUC, Illinois, USA), Mohamed Seghier (Khalifa University, UAE), Yen-Yu Ian Shih (UNC Chapel Hill, USA), Axel Thielscher (TU Denmark, Denmark), Lucina Uddin (UCLA, USA), Dimitri Van De Ville (EPFL and UNIGE, Switzerland), Wim Vanduffel (KU Leuven, Belgium), Chao-Gan Yan (CAS, Beijing, China), Anastasia Yendiki (Harvard, USA). 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Campinas, Br?sil 25 mai 2023 16 h 00 Centre de communications de Grandpr?, Le Neuro, 3801, rue University *La pr?sentation sera en anglais ???????????????????????????????????? Pierre Gloor Lecture: The Advances of MRI in Epilepsies: From Diagnosis and Classification to Pathophysiology and Endophenotypes Fernando Cendes, PhD Professor, Neurology, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil May 23, 2023 4 p.m. EDT De Grandpr? Communications Centre, The Neuro, 3801 University Street This named lecture honours the life and legacy of Pierre Gloor (1923-2003) whose work at The Neuro in understanding and treating epilepsy earned him a worldwide reputation. The Pierre Gloor lecture serves as the pinnacle of the recently inaugurated Epilepsy Lecture Series. Abstract: High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in defining the etiology and prognosis of medical and surgical treatment in patients with epilepsies. The results from an MRI visual analysis of signal characteristics of a suspicious lesion, its location, and extent, with or without postprocessing, are fundamental to the surgical approach in patients with focal epilepsies. However, MRI findings are often subtle and may be undetected even with state-of-the-art MRIs, particularly in cortical dysplasias (FCD). In addition, advances in computer science and faster hardware enabling big data analyses transformed the neuroimaging research field, leading to new avenues in clinical research. Research applications, including different functional and structural MRI acquisitions, are leading to new insights into the vast extent of network dysfunction underlying cognitive comorbidities and a better understanding of disease mechanisms through imaging genomics and subclinical quantitative data that could be used as endophenotypes, to name a few of the potential MRI applications. 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Thanks Christophe ________________________________ Dear all, We are organizing a symposium at CRIUGM on July 27th, right after the last day of the OHBM conference, as a satellite of the conference. Thanh Dang-Vu, Habib Benali, and myself are on the organizing committee and we have invited an impressive line-up of international speakers on the topics of neuroimaging, lifestyle, sleep and cognition Could you please disseminate this event to your respective networks ? The registration is free until June 15th, and there is also a call for poster submission https://criugm.qc.ca/en/evenements/novel-applications-of-neuroimaging-to-study-the-effects-of-sleep-and-lifestyle-factors-on-cognitive-health/ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/satellite-symposium-of-ohbm-2023-criugm-registration-636570568707 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBY02TTqgUrhU_VJmxh9_rp3_BrJWMSsK-bLFA-niTt-XjXg/viewform Christophe _____________________________________________________________ Christophe Grova, PhD Associate Professor, Physics Dpt, Concordia University PERFORM centre, Concordia University Chair of PERFORM Applied Bio-Imaging Committee (ABC) Adjunct Prof in Biomedical Engineering, and Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt, McGill University Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm) Montreal Neurological Institute - epilepsy group Centre de Recherches en Math?matiques Physics Dpt Concordia University - Loyola Campus - Office SP 265.02 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6 Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext.4221 email : christophe.grova at concordia.ca , christophe.grova at mcgill.ca Explore Concordia: http://explore.concordia.ca/christophe-grova Physics, Concordia University: https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/christophe-grova.html MultiFunkIm Lab: https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/physics/research/grova-research-group.html#research _________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbpoline at gmail.com Mon May 29 09:04:35 2023 From: jbpoline at gmail.com (JB Poline) Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 09:04:35 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Fwd: Submit to SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing 2024 - San Diego - Deadline 9 August 2023 In-Reply-To: <669455f3-a414-1837-16db-2ac6c3c10c81@cnrs.fr> References: <44d8dc24-c001-1426-e9ee-fb585466ff9b@cnrs.fr> <669455f3-a414-1837-16db-2ac6c3c10c81@cnrs.fr> Message-ID: Hi, See below for a high quality image processing conference. cheers JB ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Olivier Colliot Date: Sun, May 28, 2023 at 4:53?AM Subject: Submit to SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing 2024 - San Diego - Deadline 9 August 2023 To: Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the next SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing conference in San Diego, California, 18 - 22 February 2024! Submit your papers at: https://spie.org/MI102 *Submission deadline: 9 August 2023 * Looking forward to seeing your work submitted to the conference and please help us spread the word by forwarding this message! Kind regards, Olivier Colliot and Jhimli Mitra, Co-Conference Chairs ------------------------------------------------ *Important dates:* Submission deadline: 9 August 2023 Author Notification: 30 October 2023 SPIE Student Conference Support application opens: TBD Award Applications Open: 30 October 2023 Award Applications Due: 1 December 2023 Poster PDFs due: 24 January 2024 Final manuscripts due: 25 January 2024 Meeting Dates: 18 - 22 February 2024 Go to the MI102 call for papers: https://spie.org/MI102 >From the MI102 call for papers, click on the "Submit an abstract" link, sign in (or create an account) and follow the submission wizard. *Regarding formatting of the submission* - Please use the proceedings template available at: https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/medical-imaging/presenters/manuscript-submission-guidelines - For submission, the limit is 4 pages (acknowledgements and references don't count in the 4 pages) - If the submission is accepted, the paper can be expanded after acceptance but this is not an obligation -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SPIE Medical Imaging - Image Processing Program Committee" group. 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