{"id":150261,"date":"2019-05-21T07:14:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T11:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=150261"},"modified":"2019-09-24T11:48:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:48:47","slug":"expanding-minds-brain-imaging-uconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/05\/expanding-minds-brain-imaging-uconn\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding Minds: Brain Imaging at UConn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roeland Hancock, associate director at the Brain Imaging Research Center, talks to E.O. Smith students about the research they pursue. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"birk190517b078\"<\/a>
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MRI scan of the human brain at the Brain Imaging Research Center. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"birk190517c008\"<\/a>
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Elisa Medeiros, an MRI technologist, talks to high school students from E.O. Smith about how a MRI works. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"birk190517b125\"<\/a>
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At right, Beth Daitch, an E.O. Smith teacher, talks to William Delaney in a MRI simulation room. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"birk190517b131\"<\/a>
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William Delaney, a student at E.O. Smith High School, sits in a diffusion weighted imaging machine. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"birk190517c047\"<\/a>
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Monica Li, a graduate student in psychology, talks to a group of E.O. Smith students at the Brain Imaging Research Center at UConn. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"birk190517b039\"<\/a>
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A scan showing white matter in the human brain. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"birk190517b105\"<\/a>
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Charles Davis, a graduate student in psychology, shows an axial image of the brain to the high school students. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"birk190517b144\"<\/a>
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Electroencephalograpy cap at the Brain Imaging Research Center. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"birk190517c042\"<\/a>
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E.O. Smith High School student, Sophia Kaitis, asks a question while Guadalupe Juarez Hernandez listens. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

When it opened in 2015, the University of Connecticut Brain Imaging Research Center (BIRC)<\/a> became a hub for multi-disciplinary research, including both basic science and translational research with implications for the classroom, clinic, and quality of life.<\/p>\n

The center facilitates scientific discovery and theoretical innovation in cognitive neuroscience and other fields by providing access to state-of-the-art equipment and methods and technical and scientific training.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the BIRC provides educational and research opportunities for UConn\u2019s graduate and undergraduate students and disseminates scientific knowledge to the general public, including a class from the E.O. Smith High School, which toured the facility this month.<\/p>\n

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The Brain Imaging Research Center disseminates scientific knowledge to the general public, including a high school class, which toured the facility last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":150253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1715,2198,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1911],"class_list":["post-150261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-impact","category-tolland-county","category-uconn-storrs","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 00:57:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150283,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150261\/revisions\/150283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/150253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150261"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=150261"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=150261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}