Charla: “Spatio-temporal dynamics of the sensory processing dysfunction in Schizophrenia” – Dra. Antigona Martinez
Laboratorio de Psiquiatría Traslacional (Clínica Psiquiátrica Universitaria, ICBM), Instituto de Neurociencias Biomédicas (BNI)
se complacen en invitar a la charla titulada:
“Spatio-temporal dynamics of the sensory processing dysfunction in Schizophrenia”
Dr. Antígona Martínez
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, USA.
Viernes 9 de Enero a las 11:30 horas
Auditorio Armando Roa, Sector G, Clínica Psiquiátrica Universitaria.
Av. La Paz 1003, Recoleta, Santiago.
Dr. Martinez is an expert in the field of brain imaging and cognition. Her research over the past 15 years has provided fundamental insights into the basic brain mechanisms of attention and perception, and more recently into abnormalities of sensory brain function in schizophrenia patients. Dr. Martinez utilizes both electrophysiological and hemodynamic approaches to investigate brain function, combining recordings of event-related brain potentials with functional magnetic resonance imaging so that both the time course and anatomical substrates of sensory and perceptual processes can be visualized within the same experimental context. Her recent studies have demonstrated how different forms of selective attention (spatial, feature-based, object-based) are implemented at different levels of the extrastriate visual cortex and have shown that the magnocellular and parvocellular visual pathways play distinctive roles in attention. Dr. Martinez is currently applying these basic approaches to the analysis of sensory deficits in schizophrenia.
Dr. Pablo Gaspar
Laboratorio Psiquiatria Traslacional
pgaspar@neuro.med.uchile.cl
