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The 2014 UCLA Advanced Neuroimaging Summer program

Classroom

Each year we are pleased to be able to offer a two week intensive summer program on advanced topics in neuroimaging. The purpose of this course is to provide a solid foundation in state-of-the-art functional neuroimaging methods. The course covers all aspects of MRI-based neuroimaging data acquisition, experimental design, and data analysis. In addition, students will interact closely with these lecturers in hands-on laboratory exercises and data analysis projects.

Responding to comments in prior years, we have increased the number of labs and peppered them throughout the day.

Our program is targeted to investigators with significant experience in neuroimaging who are eager to gain more tools and knowledge to apply to their work. This year we once again will have an extraordinary faculty of internationally known experts.

YOUR EVALUATIONS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO US. Our ability to continue this program at all may depend on them (read more).

Even if you are looking at us online, we are very interested in your feedback and evaluations.Please take a moment to fill in the form at <this link.>

We archive our webcasts at Livestream.com. The (Video) for any lecture links to a recorded video. You can see the archived 2013 summer program at our video on demand web page.

Thanks to the generosity of the United States National Institutes of Health we are able to offer the course without tuition and are able to cover the costs of lodging for students form outside of the LA area. The program is open to applicants worldwide (though we are unable cover costs of travel). We are able to admit about 35 students each year.

The course will feature hands-on laboratory sections in neuroanatomy and image analysis, demonstrations of EEG-fMRI and an opportunity to design experiments and collect data at the UCLA Center for Cognitive Neuroscience imaging laboratory.

The lectures are available live in real-time at http://ctrl.ucla.edu/video/nitp/.


Please note that the schedule below is for 2014.
The 2015 course will run from August 3 through August 14

Week 1 Monday
7/21
Tuesday
7/22
Wednesday
7/23
Thursday
7/24
Friday
7/25
Saturday
7/26
Sunday
7/27
Class Schedule
8:30 Welcome
Overview & Challenges in Neuroimaging

Cohen
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Experimental Design I
Bookheimer
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MR Artifacts
Cohen

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Non-Parametric Statistics I
Lindquist
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PPI & Functional Connectivity
Lenartowicz
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MRI Scanning Lab
9:45 Keynote: Understanding the human brain at multiple levels of organization — Possibilities and limitations of ultra–high field fMRI
Goebel
(NRB Auditorium)
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Experimental Design II
Monti
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Scripting and Pre-processing
Monti and Lenartowicz
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Bayesian Statistics II
Lindquist
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PPI Lab
Lenartowicz
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10:45 BREAK
11 Intro to Neural Signaling
Cohen
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Data Pre-processing
Monti
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General Linear Model I
Monti
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Group Projects An overview of Causal Modeling
McIntosh
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Noon LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1:15 Neurovascular Coupling & Methods
Riera Diaz
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Group Projects General Linear Model II
Monti
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Multvoxel Pattern Analysis I
Rissman
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Building The Virtual Brain
McIntosh
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2:15 MR Physics I
Ennis
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Pulse Sequences
Cohen
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Group Analysis I
Monti
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Multvoxel Pattern Analysis II
Rissman
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A brief hands-on session, a.k.a., speed dating with The Virtual Brain
McIntosh
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3:15 BREAK
3:30 MR Physics II
Ennis
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Sequence Parameter Tradeoffs
Cohen
Demos and simulations
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Group Analysis II
Rissman
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Machine Learning Lab - Weka & MATLAB
Kerr & Vaughn
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Group Projects
4:30 Course Software Installation BOLD Imaging
Cohen
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  Real-time fMRI
Goebel
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MRI Safety
Cohen
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      NITP Banquet and Party
(6-11pm)
       
 
Week 2 Monday
7/28
Tuesday
7/29
Wednesday
7/30
Thursday
7/31
Friday
8/1
Saturday
8/2
Sunday
8/3
8:30 Resting State
Power
By request of Dr. Power this talk will not be webcast.*
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Group ICA
Calhoun
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Diffusion Theory
Ellingson
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Data Mining / Big Data
Yarkoni
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Careers in Neuroimaging
Steve Grant & Panel
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PalmTrees

9:45

Artifact Removal
Power
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Multimodal ICA
Calhoun
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Anatomical Connectivity DTI/DSI
Wedeen
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Neurosynth Lab
Yarkoni
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9:45
The Best
Team (1)

 

 

10:30
Yellow
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11:15
Orange
Group

 

10:45 BREAK Photo Day BREAK
11 Keynote: Mapping perceptual and cognitive representations across human cerebral cortex
Jack Gallant
(CHS 23-105)
Slides are not available online for this talk.
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ICA with GIFT
Calhoun
TrackViz
Wedeen
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Compressive Sensing
Vese
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Some compressive sensing resources
Noon LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1:15 Encoding and Decoding
Gallant
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BrainSuite
Shattuck
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Group Projects
NIRx Presentation and Demo
Barbour
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1:45
Red
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2:30
Green
Group

 

2:15 Network Analysis
Allen
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BrainSuite Lab
Shattuck
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Graph Analysis
Brown
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3:15 BREAK
3:30 Artifact Removal Lab
Rissman
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BrainSuite In-depth Lab
Shattuck et al.
Graph Analysis Lab
Brown
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Group Projects

3:30
Team Purple
The BestEST

4:30 ICA Denoising Lab
Schreiner
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Group Projects Let's have some fun.
             
Lab session   Group project      

Final Course Evaluation

We would be very grateful if you fill in this Final Evaluation Form after completing the course,
either in person, or online. We will study your responses carefully and use them in planning the 2015 program


*We expect to be able to post video of this lecture at a later time, to be determined.
(1) "With great power comes great responsibility."

SOME QUESTIONS and ANSWERS about the summer program.
This page is updated frequently, so you may wish to refer to it from time to time.

A few questions that came up during the course:
Can you recommend a good brain atlas?
Dr. Bookheimer recommends the Duvernoy, Mai and, of course, Talairach & Tournoux atlases.

Mark likes a variety of digital atlases including those included in fslview and in afni, as well as the convenient iPad atlases: 3DBrain and BrainView and, for $1.99, BrainTutor HD.
I'd like to learn more about Fourier math...
Here are some primers that Mark wrote:
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The UCLA Neuroimaging Training Program is funded by generous awards from the National Institutes of Health, grant numbers R90 DA022768 and T90 DA023422