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Dr Saggar focuses his research on developing computational methods to better understand how the human brain adapts from doing one thing to the next, both in people who have mental health problems and those who don’t. He intends to use his New Innovator Award to develop a computational framework for modeling how an individual’s brain activity changes over time. “I propose to take already collected neuroimaging data from individuals who are diagnosed with either major depression or ADHD and use these new modeling techniques to capture clinically meaningful insights about changes in the brain’s intrinsic activity without averaging data across space, time or individuals,” Saggar said. This new computational framework could both be used for developing biologically grounded stratification of mental illnesses and as a test bed for developing future treatments and personalized care for patients, he said. Dr. Saggar also received a HPDTRP award from the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design. In this project, Dr Saggar and his team are conducting a cross-disciplinary investigation, across neuroscience, interaction dynamics, and speech analysis, to find the neural correlates of reflection/rumination and to link them to the individual differences observed in creativity and design thinking. September 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Manish Saggar for his second year of funding from the HPI-Stanford Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program (HPDTRP). The research titled "Examining the role of design reflection and associated brain dynamics in creativity" aims to perform a cross-disciplinary investigation, across the three domains of neuroscience, design interaction, and speech analysis, to quantify the reflection processes and link them to individual differences in creativity and design thinking both at the individual and team levels. August 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Allan Reiss for receiving an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study of the brain and behaviors in Klinefelter Syndrome (KS). The prospective, longitudinal, multi-time point research project represents a unique and first-of-its-kind opportunity to provide an increased understanding of how testosterone replacement therapy exerts its beneficial effect on cognition, behavior and mood in boys with KS. The results of this study are intended to lead to the development of improved clinical management of cognitive-behavioral symptoms in boys with KS while advancing our knowledge of the neural changes underlying cognition, behavior and mood during male puberty. See link here for more information on participating! Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Baker for receiving a prestigious Career Development Award (K99/R00) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dr. Baker will use this award to explore the influence of Turner syndrome on neural and behavioral signatures of approximate number sense— a precursor to complex mathematics. This award, which includes additional training in educational neuroscience and genetics, will set the stage for Dr. Baker’s overarching career goals to elucidate the biological underpinnings of math learning deficits in clinical populations, and to use educational neuroscience as a tool to help improve education for all. Congratualtions to Dr. David Hong for receiving his first R01 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This study will examine cross-sex hormone effects on the brain throughout the pubertal period and aims to improve long-term clinical outcomes for transgender youth by elucidating how sex hormone therapy alters sex-specific risk for disease. Delineation of this paradigm will also provide critical insight into the role of sex hormones in typical development and their impact on neural networks implicated in psychiatric disorders. February 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Tamar Green for receiving an K23 grant from the from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study of the brain and behaviors in Noonan Syndrome (NS). The Ras/MAPK pathway is central to brain development and function in humans. Noonan syndrome (1:2,000), is a developmental syndrome associated with genetic mutations affecting the Ras/MAPK pathway. Children with Noonan syndrome are commonly diagnosed with ADHD and they have impaired social skills. Since major gaps exist in understanding how Noonan syndrome increases risk for these deficits, we propose to examine differences in brain structure and connectivity in children with this important condition. September 2017 Dr. Allan Reiss talks about cycling and ADHD October 2017 New research demonstrates that brain scans from early childhood can be used to define subgroups within individuals who have fragile X syndrome. In this study, published recently in PNAS , lead authors Jennifer Bruno and David Romano , along with senior author Allan Reiss , describe the machine learning methods they used to define the subgroups and explain how these definitions can be important for planning treatments. Stanford School of Medicine blog Scope and Spectrum News highlighted the study in recent posts. August 2016 John Merck Profile of Dr. Scott Hall Read the John Merck news profile on Dr. Scott Hall and his work with Fragile X children. Link to article June 2016 Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Distinguished Career Achievement Dr....