Thank you to all of our wonderful undergraduate students who worked in our lab over the past academic year: Sasha Bukary, Carly Cohen, Ivi Fung, Aileen Guo, and Abigail Klein.

Congratulations to our graduating Seniors, Ivi Fung, Aileen Guo, and Sasha Bukary. All three students spent over a year in our lab working on a variety of research projects. Ivi will be joining a research lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Sasha will be applying to medical school, and Aileen will be joining our lab as a full-time research assistant at the Dept. of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital. We are so grateful for all of their efforts with the lab’s research and we wish them the best of luck!

Congratulations to Ivi Fung, who defended their Senior Honors Thesis, “ Changing the narrative: ERP markers of building and updating situation models during deep naturalistic comprehension.” Their committee members were Dr. Gina Kuperberg and Dr. Elizabeth Race.

The Wellcome Trust has awarded a large grant in support of the DIALOG initiative, led by Dr. Lena Palaniyappan, one of our lab’s collaborators from the Douglas Research Centre and McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Kuperberg is one of the researchers on the international team funded by this project.

“The DIALOG project focuses on the patients’ everyday language use rather than traditional clinical assessments. By combining advanced analytical tools with neuroimaging data from more than 3000 patients, DIALOG aims to identify the brain dysfunctions underlying communication”

Read the full press release here:

https://douglas.research.mcgill.ca/news/understanding-psychiatric-disorders-wellcome-trust-dialog/