October 2013: Research assistants Eli Fredman (representing the St. Louis Cardinals) and Brian Dahlben (representing the Boston Red Sox) took in Game 1 of the 2013 Fall Classic. Fredman was fortunate enough to take a foul ball right to the kidney (see picture).
July 2013: Journalist Paul Voosen describes the PNL’s study on chronic head trauma, detailing the experience of an NFL player who participated in the study. Click here to read about Patient 53 and his time with us at the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory.
July 2013: Dr. Inga Koerte was featured in Handelsblatt, Focus and Bild, three popular publications in Germany.
June 2013: Drs. Martha Shenton and Inga Koerte discussed the brain abnormalities associated with “headers” in a recent article in Science News.
May 2013: The PNL was featured in ZEIT, Germany’s most prestigious weekly newspaper. The article discusses how even minor brain injuries can have fatal consequences. It particularly highlights Drs. Inga Koerte and Martha Shenton‘s research on brain trauma in soccer players as a result of “headers”.
April 2013: Drs. Inga Koerte and Martha Shenton’s influential paper on brain trauma in soccer players continues to make headlines. Recently, they were featured in the German Center of Research and Innovation newsletter.
April 2013: The BWH Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory was this month’s feature story in BWH Clinical and Research News. The story highlights the diverse group of researches at the PNL that are spearheading the use of state-of-the-art neuroimaging in TBI, schizphrenia and more.
March 2013: In an interview with Imaging in Medicine Journal, Dr. Martha Shenton discusses the PNL’s role in pioneering the use of advanced MRI techniques in the study of schizophrenia and, more recently, mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
March 2013: In a recent publication in Science Magazine, Dr. Martha Shenton describes the importance of new sophisticated MRI techniques that can reveal microscopic damage to axons and brain lesions characteristic of mTBI.