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Deployment Trauma

PTSD One project in TRACTS is looking at how experiences during childhood might influence how service members react to stress later in life. Studies have shown that people’s reactions to stress are in part due to how much stress and psychological trauma they were exposed to when they were children...

Alzheimer's Disease

For each disease, there are multiple risk factors including lifestyle, genetic predisposition, and environment. We at the GNL are interested in understanding how these different factors contribute to cognitive decline in dementia. For this study, we work with participants who are siblings, children...

Panel-based Genetic Diagnostic Testing for Eye Disease

Researchers Report that Panel-based Genetic Diagnostic Testing for Inherited Eye Diseases is Highly Accurate and More Sensitive than Exome Sequencing Findings published online in Genetics in Medicine Contact: Mary Leach BOSTON, MASS. (Nov. 20, 2014) --Investigators at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and...

Pre-Med Corner

Welcome to the Pre-Med corner of Harvard SNMA! Here you can find resources for applying to medical school and finding oppertunities. We hope you find this helpful! Helpful Presentations and Handbooks:

Participate

We would love to have you get involved in our research! Currently, we have several ongoing studies. Most of these studies compensate participation at $10/hour and are conducted at the Boston VA located at 150 S. Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02130. If you are interested in functional MRI or...

Atlantic Coast Retina Club Meeting and Macula 2015 Conference

On Thursday and Friday, the Atlantic Coast Retina Club featured interesting case studies presented by residents, fellows and invited course faculty. On Saturday, the Macula 2015 Conference featured an elite group of retina specialists from around the country focusing on the latest developments in...

Alcohol

Our lab has a very long history devoted to the investigation of the cognitive and neurologic effects of chronic alcoholism. We are one of a small number of laboratories in the field to apply the eyeblink classical conditioning associative learning paradigm, designed originally for animal research...

Attention and Visual Processes

The Boston Attention and Learning Lab ( http://www.bu.edu/ballab ) at VA Boston uses behavioral measures, cognitive training, fMRI, and non-invasive bra in stimulation to investigate the ability to sustain attention and better understand why and how people get distracted. Additionally, we are...

Cerebro-Vascular Risk

Stroke and other silent cerebrovascular disease is highly prevalent in the African-American community. We are interested in examining how frontal lobe changes, due to cardiovascular risk, affect executive function, gait, and urinary bladder control. Our laboratory has tested a cohort of African...