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John Gabrieli seeks to understand the principles for healthy brain organization that empowers the human capacities for memory, thought, and emotion. To discover how experience, aging, and disease alter functional brain organization (brain plasticity), he examines brain-behavior relations across the life span, from children through the elderly, and in developmental disorders (dyslexia, ADHD, autism), age-related disorders (Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease), and psychiatric disorders (depression, social phobia, schizophrenia). His primary methods are functional and structural brain imaging, and behavioral studies of patients with brain injuries. The majority of studies involve functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), but he also employs other brain measures as needed to address scientific questions, including diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), MRI structural volumes, and voxel-based morphometry (VBM). Much of his research occurs in the Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute, MIT.
John Gabrieli was named Associate Member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Grover Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 2005. He is Director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT. He also co-directs the MIT Clinical Research Center and is Associate Director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH/MIT, located at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior joining MIT, he spent 14 years at Stanford University in the Department of Psychology and Neurosciences Program and, by courtesy, Department of Radiology. Since 1990, he has served as Visiting Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital and Rush Medical College. He received a Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1987 and B.A. in English from Yale University in 1978. | 