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DESCRIPTION:Opportunities and challenges for studying human brain connectio
 ns in the era of brain observatories.\n\nAriel Rokem (University of Washin
 gton)\n	Tuesday November 14\, 12-1pm\n	Zoom Link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/8
 6855481591\n	In Person: 550 Sherbrooke\, Room 189\n	\n	Abstract: Networks of 
 brain regions and their joint activity give rise to coordinated informatio
 n processing and to the complex adaptive behavior that characterizes human
  cognition. The proper function of brain networks is also crucial for neur
 ological\, cognitive\, and psychiatric health. Therefore\, a better unders
 tanding of brain networks is a major goal of contemporary neuroscience. In
  recent years\, a new paradigm for studying brain connections has emerged\
 , as large openly available datasets of human Magnetic Resonance Imaging (
 MRI) measurements are being collected and released for broad use by the re
 search community. Because of their large and diverse samples\, these datas
 ets present remarkable opportunities to harness data-driven methods\, such
  as machine learning algorithms\, to study the brain basis of individual d
 ifferences: differences that emerge as children's brains develop and matur
 e\, differences that arise as individuals age\, and differences between in
 dividuals with different cognitive abilities and different brain health co
 nditions. However\, these datasets also present unique challenges owing to
  their scale and complexity. In this talk. I will present a set of open-so
 urce software tools that we developed for scalable data-driven analysis of
  the tissue properties of brain connections in large MRI datasets. I will 
 demonstrate their use in a study of early-life development of brain connec
 tions\, in which we applied these tools to study a large publicly availabl
 e dataset of infant MRI data\, demonstrating that brain connection develop
 ment dynamics undergo a substantial shift at the time of birth.\n
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SUMMARY:QLS Seminar Series - Ariel Rokem
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