Translational opportunities with small animal imaging in psychiatry
Translational opportunities with small animal imaging in psychiatry

Translational opportunities with small animal imaging in psychiatry

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Webinar Overview

In the last decade, biological psychiatry has witnessed increased availability of large multi-modal datasets that seek to capture biological variation across the lifespan, in prodromes of major mental illness, and in individuals suffering from major neuropsychiatric disorders. Mallar Chakravarty’s group, and several others, have been leveraging these incredible datasets to gain insight into how variation in brain structure and function, detectable via neuroimaging, may relate to other disease-related factors observed in genetics and transcriptomics.

However, the outcomes of these studies rely on disparate datasets that were not collected to be analyzed in a single analytic framework. Thus, many of the exciting findings that result from the creative multivariate data fusion techniques employed are somewhat observational. To move beyond these limitations, his group has been working on examining phenotypic variation in model systems exposed to risk factors for neuropsychiatric disorders. Using longitudinal neuroimaging strategies and borrowing many of the magnificent techniques developed in the well-established human literature, they are able to demonstrate meaningful multi-modal integration across behavioral, imaging, cellular, and transcriptomic phenotypes. 

They believe that well-designed experiments that yield tremendous amounts of data from individual animal models are a critical way to better inform our understanding of the basis of human neuropsychiatric illness.

Speaker

Dr. Mallar Chakravarty

Director, Brain Imaging Centre, Douglas Research Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada

Mallar Chakravarty is a Computational Neuroscientist in the Cerebral Imaging Centre at Douglas Research Centre. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and an Associate Member of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at McGill University. He also serves as the director of the Douglas Research Centre's Cerebral Imaging Centre and NeuroInformatics Platform.

Dr. Chakravarty received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from McGill University. He went on to do postdoctoral fellowships in Aarhus, Denmark and, subsequently jointly at the Rotman Research Institute and at the Mouse Imaging Centre (MICe) and the Hospital Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. Between fellowships, Dr. Chakravarty worked at the Allen Institute for Brain Science (Seatte, WA, USA).

He is interested in the anatomy of the brain. His group focuses on how anatomy changes through development, aging, and in illness and how the dynamics of brain anatomy are influenced by genetics and environment.

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