NIH supports new Brainstorm software developments to boost research on Alzheimer’s disease.

We are grateful for receiving additional funding from the National Institutes of Health in support of our Brainstorm software developments. Brainstorm has been continuously supported by a series of NIH R01 grants over the past decade ; this new supplement is to enable specific software developments for multimodal neuroimaging integration of MEG, EEG and PET data, which are critical to Alzheimer’s research.

The project aims to extend our Brainstorm free, open-source software to include an Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) toolbox for use by researchers investigating the role of electrophysiology (in conjunction with other imaging and data collection methods) in staging, understanding and ultimately treating Alzheimer’s Disease. We will develop and integrate into Brainstorm, computational methods for data processing and statistical analysis at the whole-brain level that will allow users to extract features from resting MEG and EEG data and correlate these with spatial maps of beta-amyloid and tau (PET) as well as structural measures extracted from anatomical MRI scans.

We are opening positions for two post-doctoral fellows to join the Brainstorm research & development teams at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and at McGill University in Montreal. Interested applicants are invited to reach out to Prof Sylvain Baillet for more information. The positions are available immediately.

We are looking for PhD graduates with strong quantitative and coding skills, with previous experience with brain imaging data and methods.