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The Center for Brain and Health successfully hosted its first annual Winter Symposium on Global Neuroimaging from January 13 to 15, 2025, at the NYU Abu Dhabi campus. This landmark event brought together leading experts and enthusiasts in the field to explore cutting-edge advancements in neuroimaging across three key domains:

• Global Imaging and Standardization
• Translational and Clinical Imaging
• Normative and Healthy Brain Imaging and Function

The symposium also featured a highly interactive half-day workshop on Perfusion Imaging, offering attendees hands-on experience with the latest techniques and tools.

With 13 distinguished guest speakers from diverse backgrounds and over 70 attendees participating over the three days, the event fostered meaningful dialogue and collaboration. Beyond the academic program, the symposium included a special half-day social event, where guests visited the iconic Abrahamic Family House and enjoyed an early dinner at the scenic Saadiyat Beach Golf Club, creating opportunities for networking and connection.

This inaugural symposium marked a significant milestone in advancing global neuroimaging research and collaboration, setting the stage for future editions. We look forward to building on this success and continuing to drive innovation in the field.

The Center for Brain and Health (CBH) was delighted to host the first CBH Social Event of 2024/2025 academic year, which took place at A2 atrium. The guests got together for a brief social event, engaged in converstations with members from different teams and enjoyed some refreshments. 

Dr Mohamed Ameen from Universit of Salzburg  presented at an insightful CBH seminar on Aperiodic Brain Activity to Track Sleep Dynamics.

CBH hosted a seminar with the guest speaker Zhongpeng Dai, a PhD candidate from Southeast University China.

CBH successfully hosted the second annual Brain Health Workshop, which was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 23 and 24, 2024.

Professor Alessio Fracasso – Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience, Glasgow, Scotland, UK and a Visiting Research Fellow at NYUAD presented a thought provoking CBH seminar on Cortical Myelin Trajectories Across the Human Lifespan, Approaches Towards Individualized Strategies in Medicine and Neuroscience.

Dr. Tanmoy Maita and Dr. Shivam Mittal from Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi joined us for an interacting and compelling CBH seminar that was hosted at NYUAD on March 20, 2024.

Visual attention is essential for visual perception; it enables us to selectively process information across space, visual dimensions, and time. In this CBH seminar, Professor Marisa Carrasco; Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, Collegiate Professor at New York University, New York, focused on two types of covert spatial attention: Endogenous attention, which is voluntarily deployed and sustained, and exogenous attention.

The Center for Brain and Health hosts monthly social events with the 4th one of the 2023/2024 academic year one happening on March 4, 2024

Professor Maxime Descoteaux from Sherbrooke University, Canada was hosted in a CBH seminar where he focused on the 160,000 km of human brain white matter, its integrity and how non-invasive diffusion MRI can be used to develop novel biomarkers sensitive to demyelination, axonal disruption and neuroinflammation.  

The Center for Brain and Health hosts monthly social events with the 3rd one of the 2023/2024 academic year one happening on February 20, 2024

CBH was pleased to host a seminar with Dr. Nikola Stikov from École Polytechnique, University of Montreal and a Visiting Research Fellow at NYUAD. Where he gave a historical perspective of publishing and science communication, emphasizing the need for transparency, data and code curation and introduced the NeuroLibre reproducible preprint server (neurolibre.org), aiming to go beyond the PDF and point the way toward the research article of the future.

Karolis Degutis a PhD candidate from Max Planck School of Cognition and Humboldt University was hosted for a CBH seminar where he examined the role of dynamic coding and rotated neural subspaces as potential mechanisms of how the visual cortex can simultaneously multiplex working memory and perceptual information during visual distraction. He also discussed another study, where he examined the functional roles of different cytoarchitectonic layers of the PFC during high and low working memory load by employing ultra-high-resolution laminar fMRI. 

Omnia Hassanin, a PhD student at the Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. presented an insightful CBH Seminar on Predicting Binocular Retinotopic Organization From Monocular Input in which her research focuses on developing computational and machine learning frameworks to model the neural and physiological mechanisms underlying health and disease states. 

The Center for Brain and Health hosts monthly social events with the 2nd one of the 2023/2024 academic year one happening on January 15, 2024

The Center for Brain and Health (CBH) was delighted to host the very first CBH Social Event, which took place on Monday, November 20, 2023,