The speaker for CCBBI's fMRI Talk on February 7th was Dr. Heidi Jacobs. Dr. Jacobs is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and visiting Associate Professor at Maastricht University (Netherlands). She directs the Jacobs Lab with a focus on improving the early detection and treatment of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease by targeting the initial brain sites of pathology, the neuromodulatory subcortical systems. She is co-leader within the Harvard Aging Brain Study and Immediate past Chair of the “neuromodulatory subcortical systems” professional interest area of ISTAART. Her work is supported by the NIH-NIA, BrightFocus Foundation and Alzheimer Association funding. Heidi Jacobs was trained in Biological psychology in the Netherlands, worked for several years in a clinical setting as a psychotherapist and neuropsychologist in Belgium, and in 2011 obtained her PhD in clinical neuroscience in the Netherlands. After her postdoctoral training in Germany she received the prestigious VENI-independence award to start her own lab. Dr. Jacobs has published over 130 peer-reviewed research articles and received the de Leon Neuroimaging award for the best neuroimaging paper of 2021 and the International Junior Investigator award from the International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology.

View Dr. Jacob's talk below.