St. Jude is highly motivated to develop a novel research arm to acquire cognitive and psychosocial data pre- and post-cancer therapy, for characterizing and predicting the effect of cancer and cancer-therapy on sensory, perceptual, cognitive, and emotional aspects of brain function and behavior, and for developing interventions with brain modulation and stimulation techniques to reverse the adverse cognitive effects of pediatric cancer. The major goals of the program are to:
This new program will heavily rely on the application of multimodal functional brain imaging which requires highly sophisticated imaging techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), electro/magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG) and brain stimulation combined with novel experimental paradigms. Novel computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence methods, including functional and effective connectivity, causality modeling, brain-computer interfaces and neurofeedback would be the key tools for scientific investigation and translational intervention in this new research program.
Ranganatha Sitaram, ME, PhD
Director, Multimodal Functional Brain Imaging
Andrea Sanchez Corzo, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Paul VanGilder, PhD
Clinical Research Scientist
Josue Luiz Dalboni da Rocha
Clinical Research Scientist
Jesyin Lai, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Chih-Chiang Chang, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ping Stinnett, PhD
Medical Imaging Scientist