Wednesday, Jun 25: 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Oral Sessions
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Room: M4 (Mezzanine Level)
Educational, data protection, and social aspects of brain imaging
Presentations
Theories on brain function and pathology often involve complex networks of brain regions. A multitude of brain atlases exist, that define such regions in a standard space and a large body of literature has been published on the structural and functional connections between these regions. Visualizing these findings has been challenging because of the amount of data and the intrinsic 3-dimensional (3D) nature of this data. Specifically, visualizing brain connections in an anatomical space is challenging. Thus, our objective is to use virtual and augmented reality goggles to address these difficulties and to create visually appealing and engaging presentations. To this end, we have been developing a novel toolbox to visualize the brain, its regions and functions, different kinds of images of the brain, and other educational materials in a shared, multi-user mixed reality 3D environment. This toolbox is to be used for educational purposes, digital science communication, and data exploration by expert scientists.
Presenter
Michael Marxen, Ph.D., Technische Universität Dresden
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Dresden, Sachsen
Germany
As with many scientific fields, neuroscience and neuroimaging have disproportionately fewer individuals from historically excluded groups (HEGs). There are many sources of this discrepancy across all levels of academia, but one significant barrier to entry is access to mentorship. Neuroimaging is a multidisciplinary field requiring knowledge from a wide range of areas, which makes it difficult for students to begin their studies as they are dependent on a mentor to teach them the foundational information and/or guide them on what skills to acquire. Providing curated access to information may help bridge this gap and provide students a springboard for further opportunities.
Presenter
Emily Dennis, University of Utah
NA
EMERALD HILLS, CA
United States
OpenNeuro is a BRAIN Initiative data archive that provides the ability to openly share data from a broad range of brain imaging data types following the FAIR principles [1]. OpenNeuro has adopted a public sharing model under CC0 [2] or PDDL [3] license, if the datasets are deidentified following the standards under the HIPAA. However, given the wide spectrum of neuroimaging data that has been, and will be, collected as part of the BRAIN Initiative, there is a critical need to equip OpenNeuro to hold more diverse neuroimaging data, which may differ in their specific privacy risks and in limitations on subsequent use of data. Sharing data with various levels of sensitivity and restrictions will require not only infrastructural support but also a carefully contemplated scheme to protect data privacy. As an effort to build this scheme, we devised an updated policy that delineates new privacy measures for data shared through OpenNeuro.
Presenter
Anita Jwa, Stanford University
Psychology
Stanford, CA
United States
Mind, Brain and Education (MBE) research has long been advocated for embracing transdisciplinary learning and scientific inquiry (Gosavi and Toomarian, 2024), but it has been found a huge gap between research findings within the lab and real classroom practice (Faraone et al., 2021; Xu et al., 2022). Most students have limited exposure to brain science due to lack of curricular resources and lack of teacher knowledge (Saravanapandian et al., 2019). Here, we describe an innovative curriculum as the product of a researcher-practitioner collaboration between neuroscientists and educators, aiming to offer young minds a front row seat to frontier neuroscience research and imaging technology, as well as a novel neuroscientific perspective to approach cognitive science processes. Specifically, our program focuses on the topic of sustained attention highly pertaining to the interest of both students and practioners, empowering them to develop a critical understanding of the attentive brain through authentic, immersive, hands-on neuroscientific inquiry.
Presenter
Qiuyu Lu, Beijing Normal University
State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning
Beijing, Haidian
China
Since 1997, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Annual Meeting has provided a critical platform for sharing the latest developments in brain mapping. For over a decade OHBM has recorded presentations and made them accessible to its members through the OnDemand platform. However, limiting access to cutting-edge scientific content solely to paying members contradicts the longstanding ethos of OHBM, which has championed open science principles and practices for many years. Here, we introduce the OHBM Time Machine, a collaborative initiative undertaken by the Program, Education and Communications Committees of OHBM. The project seeks to create a free and permanent archive of all recorded Annual Meeting content, accessible to members and non-members alike.
Presenter
Alfie Wearn, Montreal Neurological Institute Montreal, Quebec
Canada
A growing wave of neuroscience research is transforming our understanding of how hormonal exposures and reproductive events shape the human brain. However, a critical question remains: how can we measure these factors in a comprehensive, rigorous, and reproducible way? Currently, no standardized method exists to capture the full spectrum of endogenous and exogenous hormonal exposures across the lifespan, limiting the reproducibility, scale, and impact of women's brain health research. The STANDARD was developed to address this growing need-a first-of-its-kind tool to harmonize data collection on reproductive health and hormonal exposures for neuroimaging and beyond.