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SUMMARY:The Human Connectome Project: Progress and Perspectives - David C.
  Van Essen\, Principal Investigator of the Human Connectome Project
DTSTART:20130226T110000Z
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CONTACT:Mikail Rubinov
DESCRIPTION:Recent advances in noninvasive neuroimaging have set the stage
  for the systematic exploration of human brain circuits in health and dise
 ase.  One such effort is the Human Connectome Project (HCP)\, which will c
 haracterize brain circuitry and its variability in healthy adults.  This t
 alk will review recent progress by a consortium of investigators at Washin
 gton University\, University of Minnesota\, University of Oxford\, and 7 o
 ther institutions\, who are engaged in a 5-year project to characterize th
 e human connectome in 1\,200 individuals (twins and their non-twin sibling
 s).  Information about structural and functional connectivity is being acq
 uired using diffusion MRI and resting-state fMRI\, respectively.  Addition
 al modalities include task-evoked fMRI and MEG/EEG\, plus extensive behavi
 oral testing and genotyping.  Advanced visualization and analysis methods 
 enable characterization of brain circuits in individuals and group average
 s at high spatial resolution and at the level of functionally distinct bra
 in parcels. Comparisons across subjects will reveal aspects of brain circu
 itry which are related to particular behavioral capacities and which are h
 eritable or related to specific genetic variants.  Data from the HCP will 
 be made freely available to the neuroscience community via a user-friendly
  informatics platform. Altogether\, the HCP will provide invaluable inform
 ation about the healthy human brain and its variability and will set the s
 tage for characterizing abnormal brain connectivity in a variety of brain 
 disorders and diseases.
LOCATION:MRC CBU lecture theatre\, 15 Chaucer Road
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