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Researchers Search Results
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| Name: |
Ribary, Urs |
| Titles: |
Consultant, CFRI
Professor, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Endowed BC Leadership Chair, Simon Fraser University |
| Degrees / Designations: |
PhD (Dr.sc.nat.ETH) |
| Primary Area of Research: |
Developmental Neurosciences & Child Health |
| Secondary Area(s) of Research: |
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| Email: |
urs_ribary@sfu.ca |
| Phone: |
778-782-3791 |
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| Mailing Address: |
Department of Psychology
Simon Fraser University
Room RCB 6241, 8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5Z 1S6 |
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| Research Areas |
Cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging and brain network dynamics, and their relation to normal, altered and pathological brain functions. |
| Summary |
Structural and functional brain imaging to study sensory-motor and cognitive processing in children and adults, especially the analysis of the brain’s network, oscillation dynamics, and functional connectivity within and among distributed networks, and the development of underlying neuronal diagnostic markers for cognitive alterations and clinical diseases in relation to therapeutic interventions. |
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Dr. Urs Ribary is the former director of an MEG brain imaging center at New York University Medical Center and the incoming BC Leadership Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience in Childhood Health and Development at SFU. His plan is to expand present infrastructure in cognitive neuroscience brain imaging, to bring in additional expertise and world experts in signal processing technologies to facilitate ongoing research projects. Also, he will bring in a network of international collaborators to study and quantify task-specific brain network connectivity among local and distributed networks underlying normal, altered and pathological brain functions and plasticity. The goal will be to specify objective diagnostic markers relating to interventional therapies. |
| Selected Publications |
Cheung T, Wong J, Parameswaran A, Babul A, Beg F, Kavanagh KL, Jirasek A, and Ribary U.: A Scanner Independent Approach to Modeling Neural Activity with a Hardware Phantom. In: R.Kakigi, K.Yokosawa, S.Kuriki, eds . Biomagnetism: Interdisciplinary Research and Exploration. Hokkaido University Press, pp: 89-91, 2008.
Virji-Babul N, Moiseev A, Cheung T, Weeks D, Cheyne D, Ribary U.: Changes in mu rhythm during action observation and execution in adults with Down syndrome: implications for action representation. Neurosci Lett. 2008 May 9;436(2):177-80.
Ribary, U.. Dynamics of thalamo-cortical network oscillations and human perception. Progr. Brain Res., 150, 127-142, 2005.
Schiff, ND; Ribary, U; Moreno, DR; Beattie, B; Kronberg, E; Blasberg, R; Giacino, J; McCagg, C; Fins, JJ; Llinas, R and Plum, F. Residual cerebral activity and behavioural fragments can remain in the persistently vegetative brain. Brain, 125, 1210-1234, 2002.
Llinás, R., Ribary, U., Jeanmonod, D., Kronberg, E., and Mitra, P.P. Thalamocortical Dysrhythmia: A neurological and neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by magnetoencephalography. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96, 15222-15227, 1999.
Ribary, U., Cappell, J., Mogilner, A., Hund, M., Kronberg, E., and Llinás, R. Functional imaging of plastic changes in the human brain. Advances in Neurology, 81, 49-56, 1999.
Joliot, M., Ribary, U., and Llinás, R. Human oxillatory brain activity near 40 Hz coexists with cognitive temporal binding. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91, 11748-11751, 1994.
Llinás, R. and Ribary, U. Coherent 40-Hz oscillation characterizes dream state in humans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 90, 2078-2081, 1993.
Ribary, U., Ioannides, A.A., Singh, K.D., Bolton, J.P.R., Lado, F., Mogilner, A., and Llinás, R. Magnetic Field Tomography (MFT) of coherent thalamocortical 40-Hz oscillations in humans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 88, 11037-11041, 1991. |
| Honours & Awards |
Keynote Speaker: 15th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Vancouver, Canada (2006)
3 Research articles were identified among the “10 most cited papers in the field of MEG” (#3, #8, and #10) (ISI SciSearch: 1970-2005)
Inclusion in Who’s Who in American Education, USA, 1999-2004.
Member: Cognitive Neuroscience Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS); Society for Neuroscience (SFN); European Neuroscience Association (ENA)
Honorary Lecturer at the Medical Imaging Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 1996.
Young Scientist Fellowship Award from the Swiss National Science Foundation, 1986 and 1987. |
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