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Dr. med. Martin Walter |
Studied medicine at the Otto v. Guericke University, Magdeburg and the Université Claude Bernard, Lyon. He obtained his MD-Phd summa cum laude at the local graduate school for neurobiological causes of psychiatric diseases. His scientific interests and medical training took him away from Magdeburg to spend longer visits in e.g. Kansas City, Tansania, Boston or Zurich. He finally returned to Magdeburg in 2006 to work as a staff physician at the Department of Psychiatry and to perform his own research as a member of the Center for Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Martin started his early fMRI training especially with SPM.
Members
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Coraline Metzger, MD, PhD |
Coraline studied medicine and neuroscience at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. During her studies, she joined our group to investigate attentional and cognitive aspects of emotion processing in healthy volunteers and depressed patients. Her special focus is on the neural basis of sexual processing, that is linked to one of the main basic human emotions. After graduating from medschool, she's now working on metabolic aspects of fMRI-responses during task- and restingstate fMRI, combining magnetic resonance spectroscopy with canlab's favourite imaging modalities. Her passion: traditional chinese medicine and ginger tea.
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Marie-Jose van Tol, PhD |
Marie-Jose studied clinical, health & neuropsychology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands and obtained her PhD at the University of Leiden, cum laude. Her previous work is part of the dutch NESDA study (www.nesda.nl) and focused on shared and unique structural and functional abnormalities in anxiety and depression. After a postdoc at the University of Groningen, focussing on hallucinations and insight in psychosis,she now follows the metabolic underpinnings of abnormal cingulate cortex function in major depression.
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Meng Li |
A Ph.D. student in his fourth year. He is interested in combining pattern recognition methods and medical image processing technologies in the assessment of brain functional and structural abnormality. His current investigations focus on the visual impairment and the resulting cerebral cortex analysis.
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ChuanChih Yang |
Studied Biomedical Engineering MSc at RWTH Aachen. Has worked in Spain in Psychology about the study of Mindfullness Meditation. Her research interest focus on emotion regulation. Currently researching on Resting State with MR Spectroscopy in depression.
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Bin Zhang Email:bin(at)canlab.de |
Bin got his Master degree in Basic Medical Science from department of Human Anatomy and Neurobiology of Tianjin Medical University. He was working on Neuroimaging and fMRI methods back then. Now he is following his studies as a PhD student in Integrative Neuroscience program at OVGU Magdeburg. Hes is interested in basic neurofunctional questions, especially decision making. He would like to research the emotion and cognition interaction with the resting state fMRI method.
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Wenjing Li Email:wenjing(at)canlab.de |
Wenjing Li is in the fifth year of her PhD studies. Currently she is studying in the Otto v. Guericke University for one year supported by CAS-DAAD joint fellowship programme. Her research interests are using structural and functional MRI techniques to understand neuronal development and plasticity in diseased as well as aging brains.
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Dipl. –Phys. Shan Yang |
A PhD. student in department biomedical magnet resonance, institute of experimental physics, at the Otto v. Guericke University, Magdeburg. He studied physics in Magdeburg and worked in his diplom thesis with reconstruction methods of MR phase imaging. His current research interests are cortical thickness of high resolution MR imaging and ultra-high resolution MR imaging at 7T.
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M. Sc. Weiqiang Dou Email:weiqiang(at)canlab.de |
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A PhD. student in the department of biomedical magnet resonance, institute of experimental physics, at the Otto v. Guericke University, Magdeburg. He studied in the master program of medical system engineering in Uni Magdeburg and worked in his master thesis with the topic of the correction of the local inhomogeneity in T2* mapping . His current research interests are the MR spectroscopy research between the healthy controls and major depressive disorder patients at 7T.
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Anna Linda Krause Email:annalinda(at)canlab.de |
Anna Linda is a medical student in her fourth year at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg. Her research focuses on different attachment styles of individuals with Major Depressiv Disorder and their representation in the brain. Another key aspect of her analysis is the impact of countertransference.
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Maryam Roayaee Email:maryam(at)canlab.de |
Maryam has a bachelor degree in Physics. She worked as a physics teacher for 5 years in high schools. Due to her interests in human studies she started some Psychology studies and ended up studying Neuroscience as a master program here in OVGU Magdeburg . She took her first lab rotation with this group and after that she continued working on her project on Depression.
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Dorothea Horn |
Dorothea is interested in combining functional and structural assessment of pre-frontal dysfunctions in depression and relate these to specific psychopathological entities involved in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).
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Anne Osoba |
Anne's research area focuses on structural connectivity in major depressive disorder. In her doctoral thesis, she investigates the impact of altered connections as observed in DTI studies on emotional processing and brain function at rest.
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Deepthi Varikuti |
Deepthi got her Bachelor degree in Technology in Biotechnology from GITAM university in India. Then she did a master program in Medical Systems Engineering in Otto-Von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg. While doing her master she also worked in CANLAB doing analysis of Resting state fMRI” Using “DPARSF: a MATLAB toolbox for “pipeline” data analysis of resting-state fMRI". At the moment she is working on her thesis in Eindhoven university in Netherlands.
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Felix N. Schneider, MD |
Felix studied informatics in Heidelberg and thenobtained his MD at the Otto v. Guericke University Magdeburg andpursued his doctoral thesis at the department of experimentalpsychiatry in Magdeburg, focussing on self-related processing in theprefrontal cortex. As a clinician, felix runs the acute psychiatry wardat the university hospital and directs the patient studies at 1.5 and 3Tesla. His current projects aim at expectancy related processes andtheir alteration in major depression.
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Julia Buchmann, MA | |
Studied Business and Regional Studies in Reutlingen and Boston and is currently enrolled in the MD programme at the Otto v. Guericke University, Magdeburg. Her interests encompass both basic neuroanatomical questions and higher order functions underlying human interactions, especially in the newly emerging field of neuroeconomics. Julia is also heavily involved in our resting state fMRI studies, she therefore has a slight preference for AFNI
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Ulf Eckert, MD | |
Studied medicine at the Otto v. Guericke University. He is currently investigating the structural basis of connectivity using DTI as well as a number of other anatomical assessments of high field MR data. Ulf pursues studies with a specific focus on subcortical networks and cortical molecular characteristics as revealed by MRS. Ulf uses a large amount of in-house software developed at the Department of Neurology and also FSL.
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Nora Hailla nora(at)canlab.de |
Nora is a MD-PhD student, who decided to exchange the unchallenged weathers of Finland for some exciting mixture of immuno-biomarker research and non-invasive imaging. Her current investigations track down specific peripheral markers of glial and neuronal dysfunction that can relate alterations of brain structure and function to their biochemical origins.
Guests
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Sebastian wendt Email:sebastian(at)canlab.de |
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After finishing his training as a church organist at St. Laurentii,Sebastian is now a medical student completing his 5th year at the Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg. To get a more comprehensive and imaginative point of view of the most mysterious organ the evolution has
ever created - the B R A I N - he decided to study Philosophy and German language as well. As an associated member he focuses on both neurohistological and neurofunctional data and wants to bring them together as a new scientific realization.
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Thomas M. Malone Email:tom(at)canlab.de |
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studied in Integrative Neuroscience at Otto V. Guericke University, he obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Previously, he worked as a research assistant at the Hoglund Brain Imaging Center (Kansas City) and the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis. Due to his strong interests in clinical applications, he has obtained experience in several MR applications used for pre-neurosurgical planning, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS), fMRI as well as primate and small animal neuroimaging. Tom also now works at the high-field MR system where he tries to bridge the gap between microscopic and macroscopic biological psychiatry. Coming from Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, Tom has a natural affinity for CARET Brain Mapping Software.
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Alireza Sojoudi Email:ali(at)canlab.de |
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Alireza studied Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tehran, Iran. He did his M.Sc. projecton Resting state fMRI here in Magdeburg. Alireza is interested in Digital Image Processing and Pattern Recognition.