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Geographic Area Served
International, National, New Mexico State-wide |
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Project Description
Research Interests
We use a variety of tools to investigate the relationship between the mind and brain. In association with The MIND Institute (http://www.mrn.org) we employ structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), event-related potentials (ERPs) and other methods to examine human brain structure and function. Using these tools, we are investigating the basic organizational principles of perception, learning, memory, attention and language in healthy individuals. We also use these methods to examine the neural basis of psychiatric disorders such as drug and gambling addiction, psychopathy and schizophrenia. We are developing new methods of data analysis for combining data from different imaging techniques in order to gain fundamentally new information on human brain structure and function, called multimodal imaging, and are using this and other methods to expand the boundaries of brain imaging techniques. Our most recent work uses transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to increase learning and memory in healthy subjects. Brain stimulation may lead to a variety of innovations in classroom education and professional training, along with new methods for treating clinical disorders. Dr. Clark is also serving as director of the new Clinical Neuroscience Center being built in Logan Hall, which will include TMS and tDCS laboratories, along with multiple high-density EEG systems and a data storage and analysis core.
Eligibility
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| Contact Information: |
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1 University of New Mexico
MSCO3 2220
Logan 118
Albuquerque
NM
87131 |
| 1 University of New Mexico
MSCO3 2220
Albuquerque
NM
87131 |
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| Vincent P. Clark | | vclark@unm.edu |
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| Vincent P. Clark | | (505)277-2223 |
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