Randy L. Buckner

http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/nexus/members/buckner/buckner.html

http://www.neuroinformatics2011.org/speakers/randy-buckner

Information processing in the brain is accomplished by interactions among large-scale brain systems. Distinct areas possess specialized microarchitecture, anatomic connectivity, and functional response properties. At the broadest level, information processing in the cerebral cortex arises from this large array of specialized areas and how they interact to transform and propagate information. In this talk I will present a series of recent studies that have identified distinct large-scale brain systems in the human and dissociated their functional properties. I will illustrate how properties of these pathways, and broad connectivity patterns across the cortex, can be measured efficiently in thousands of individual subjects and linked to genetic variation. The goal of this developing work is to build a resource to explore the genetic bases of individual differences in brain architecture that are relevant to normal variation and psychiatric illness.