Pittsburg- Campinas fNIRS Courses
By Sergio Novi The coming months hold great opportunities for advancing your fNIRS skills! Following the recent fNIRS course in Boston University (November, 2017), the Biomedical Optics Lab at the University of Campinas (Dr. R. Mesquita, PI) and the NIRS Optical Lab at the University of Pittsburgh (Dr. T. Huppert, PI) will provide fNIRS courses.
Publications Highlights February 2018
The following publications where shared in FB, Twitter and other social media List compiled by Xiaosu (Frank) Hu
SfNIRS Newsletter, October 2017
Welcome to the October 2017 issue of the SfNIRS newsletter.
fNIRS: an Application in Hearing Augmentation
By Heather Bortfeld and Luca Pollonini A feature story in the September 11th issue of The Herald Sun highlighted recent work at the Bionic Hearing Institute in Melbourne, Australia using fNIRS to evaluate hearing impaired children. The lead researcher of Bionic’s clinical hearing program, Colette McKay, says she aims to develop fNIRS as an objective measure […]
Strengthening the Society: first steps towards standardization
By Alessandro Torricelli Since its foundation in October 2014, our Society has been incessantly growing. The attendees at the last meeting in Paris in October 2016 largely outnumbered those in Montreal 2014 and London 2012. Similarly, the papers published in the Society’s journal Neurophotonics have been constantly increasing both in number and in quality. In […]
How early adversity affects the brain
By Kaja Jasinska Researchers in Dhaka, Bangladesh are performing the first-ever comprehensive brain imaging study on children exposed to a range of biological and psychosocial hazards to development, including infants who are stunted. Stunted growth, defined by the WHO as two standard deviations below the median height for age, is associated with poorer cognitive academic […]
NIH BRAIN Initiative awards 2017 human neurotechnology grants, readies new round of opportunities
October 6 update The next Generation Human Brain Imaging Tools and Technologies RFAs (re-issue) were published yesterday in the NIH Guide. Here are the links: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-EB-17-003.html https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-EB-17-004.html We are invited to submit more fNIRS applications than last time!!! Sept. 28, 2017 New grants reward radically innovative approaches to brain imaging The NIH BRAIN Initiative […]
Boston local news
Last July, after almost 20 years at the Martinos Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. David Boas moved to Boston University to launch a Neurophotonics Center. The new center brings together faculty with different backgrounds, particularly, engineering, neuroscience and optics. “There are tremendous advantages for biomedical and photonics engineers working with neuroscientists,” says Boas. “Neuroscientists […]
Neurophotonics Special Issue updates
By Judit Gervain Neurophotonics is publishing a Special Section on fNIRS. This special section brings together papers presented at the fNIRS conference held in October 2016 in Paris, as well as other contributed papers on near-infrared spectroscopy. The conference had sessions covering the development and use of NIRS. These spanned the topics of neurodevelopment, brain and systemic physiology, clinical applications, multimodal […]
Emerging role of fNIRS in brain-computer interface applications
By Noman Naseer and Frank Hu Brain-computer interface (BCI) is a system that allows control of computers or external devices using brain activity. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) can be used to acquire brain signals for BCI. The detection of oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin (HbO and HbR) using fNIRS was first demonstrated by Chance 1993, Villringer […]