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We are excited to announce that BME’s Dan Hayes has been named the head of the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering! Read more about Hayes’ career and his plans for the department: bit.ly/BME-Hayes

Congratulations to Elizabeth Proctor, Bruce Gluckman, and Patrick Drew on their $3.83M grant from The National Institute on Aging (NIA)! The team will study how vascular function and sleep affect the brain’s ability to clear harmful cellular waste products in a genetic variant connected to #AlzheimersDisease

This is another defining moment that pushes the boundaries. The research landscape has changed and I believe many imaging researchers are refining their niche for the future.

We recently published a simple, highly sensitive perfusion MRI method to utilize BOLD MRI with transient hypoxia. #MRI #CNIR journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

📢📢NEW PAPER from the lab! Combining #optogenetics and #fMRI is opening up new avenues for research into polysynaptic functional networks. Here we openly share our most detailed protocols and step-by-step instructions for doing opto-fMRI in rodents! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Ready to meditate by controlling your breathing? By simultaneously recording rsMRI, electrophysiology and respirational signals, we discovered a respiration-associated brain network mediated by neural activity. The paper just came out in eLife. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… eLife - the journal

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The website of our new Center for Neurotechnology in Mental Health Research (CNMHR) now goes online: huck.psu.edu/institutes-and….

The most labor intensive work from my lab thus far, led by Dr. Dom, Dan Albaugh, Dr. Halfpint 🍻. We gave it everything. And here we share all new things we learned about fMRI signal in striatum! This marks our time CAMRI UNC. Please share if you find it worth reading

Alessandro Gozzi (@gozziale.bsky.social), Ian Shih, thank you so much for the efforts to organizing the Satellite meeting, which I feel will have a huge impact on the field in the future. Truly inspiring. Thank you for all the hard work!!!!

🐭🧠Hosted a fabulous two-day retreat in #Rovereto IIT with some of the brightest minds in rodent fMRI🌟We discussed goals, challenges and future ambitions of this field of research. Very grateful to all participants for the inspiring discussion! And much more to come!

Finally back home! What an incredibly enriching week in Italy 🇮🇹. Thanks to everyone for the wonderful memories. It’s awesome to be a part of the preclinical fMRI community. We're more united and resilient than ever.

🎉 Nanyin Zhang, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Brain Imaging, was named an International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineers Fellow for 2023!

🧠Join our lab @iitalk in Rovereto, Italy!🚀 We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in implementing concurrent fMRI and optical imaging in 🐁 as part of European Research Council (ERC) #Brainamics Full infopack here➡️tinyurl.com/abyzuhsa And many more openings in the lab soon!

Glad this paper is finally out in eLife. A disparity in temporal and spatial relationships between resting-state electrophysiological and fMRI signals could imply an rsfMRI component contributed by "electrophysiology-invisible" signals. Food for thought. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

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Sequential Deactivation Across the Hippocampus‐Thalamus‐mPFC Pathway During Loss of Consciousness onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad… Glad our paper is out in Advanced Science. We identified a sequential neural events unfolding around the moment when animals lose consciousness.

A team of Penn State researchers—including Huck Chair in Brain Imaging Nanyin Zhang—has pinpointed the exact moment of loss of consciousness due to anesthesia, mapping what happens in different brain regions during that moment. psu.edu/news/engineeri…

Brain mechanisms underpinning loss of consciousness identified: Rapid activity in three brain regions appears to trigger loss of consciousness, researchers at Penn State find Learn about this research led by Nanyin Zhang ➡️ bit.ly/3ZJ0A9m