Columbia MR Research Center

Congratulations to the Columbia MR Research Center for 45 accepted abstracts, posters, and presentations at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Annual Meeting & Exhibition May 15-20, 2021.

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May 21, 2021

Too much TV may be bad for your long-term brain health

People who watched large amounts of TV in midlife experienced greater cognitive declines in their senior years. Dr. Priya Palta, an assistant professor of medical sciences and epidemiology at Columbia University, analyzed information from 10,700 adults in the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities Neurocognitive Study (ARIC-NCS) study.

April 19, 2021

COVID-19 damages brain without infecting it, study suggests

Although SARS-CoV-2 probably does not infect the brain, it can damage it significantly, a new study of autopsies of 41 COVID-19 patients finds. Columbia MR researcher and co-senior author Peter Canoll, MD, PhD says "We found clusters of microglia attacking neurons, a process called 'neuronophagia.'"

February 16, 2021

Dietary Flavanols and Cognitive Aging

Columbia MR researchers Adam Brickman and Scott Small led a team looking into how supplementing with cocoa flavenols might affect performance on cognitive tests for healthy older adults. The clinical trial has shown that in older people, a diet supplemented with cocoa flavanols– naturally occurring compounds found in cocoa beans – may improve performance on a specific memory task.

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Columbia Engineering in Medicine Symposium (Feb 21, 2021)

Annual INSPECTOR MRS Workshop (Nov 20, 2020)

NYC- Area Cloud Platform Workshop (Mar 25, 2020)

COVID-19 Update from MR Center Director

Columbia IRB memo regarding research involving in-person participant contact

Some students, faculty, staff, and industry associates of the Columbia MR Research Center, January 2020

Back row, left to right: Assistant Professor Jia Guo (ZMBBI, NYSPI), Dr. Patrick Quarterman (GE Healthcare), Dr. Jaemin Shin (GE Healthcare), Enlin Qian (SEAS), Keerthi Sravan Ravi (SEAS), Associate Professor Christoph Juchem (SEAS, ZMBBI), Nabil Ettenhadi (SEAS), Dr. Martin Gajdosik (SEAS), Yun Shang (SEAS), Xuzhe Zhang (SEAS), Chen Raphael Liu (SEAS, CUIMC), Sabrina Gjerswold-Selleck (SEAS)

Middle row, left to right: Assistant Professor Wei Shen (CUIMC), Dr. Sairam Geethanth (ZMBBI), Pavan Poojar (SEAS), Dr. Maggie Fung (GE Healthcare), Stephen Dashnaw (CUIMC), Gehua Tong (SEAS), Dr. Sebastian Theilenberg (SEAS), Kelley Swanberg (SEAS), Bassam Tabibi (SEAS), Zijian Dong (SEAS), Manny Costa (Siemens Healthineers)

Seated, left to right: Professor Andrew Laine (SEAS, CUIMC), Professor Tommy Vaughan (Director of CMRRC; SEAS, CUIMC, ZMBBI, NKI), Dr. David Gultekin (ZMBBI), Kathleen Durkin (SEAS, CUIMC, ZMBBI), Elsherif Mahmoud (SEAS), Marina Manso Jimeno (SEAS), Marleny Martinez (CUIMC), Nanyan Rosalie Zhu (SEAS)

Not present: Professor Lawrence Schwartz (CUIMC), Professor Rachel Marsh (NYSPI), Professor Shih-fu Chang (SEAS), Professor Scott Small (CUIMC), Professor Niko Kriegeskorte (ZMBBI), Dr. Michael Milham (NKI), Dr. Charles E. Schroeder (NKI), Professor Sachin Jambawalikar (CUIMC), Dr. Ray Lee (ZMBBI).