Research Activities

Current Research Initiatives:

• Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for spinal cord injury pain relief
• Maxillofacial Composite Tissue Allograft Transplantation: Face Transplant
• Evaluation of Robot Assisted Neuro-Rehabilitation
• Neurocognition and Functional Performance in Older Veterans with Chronic Kidney Disease
• Functional MRI study of Burning Mouth Syndrome
• Functional MRI study on the effects of Vipassana Meditation on Brain Structure and Function in Migraine
• Functional MRI study of prolonged thermal pain using a heat hyperalgesia (capsaicin) model
• Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Lifespan (HANDLS) study
• Predictors of Speech Quality after Tongue Cancer Surgery
• Food/Yoga Study
• Exercise, EPC, and Brain Function
• Prognostic Ability of Novel Imaging Markers for Traumatic Brain Injury
• Investigation of Cognitive Reserve in TBI using fMRI
• Multi-Scale, Multi-Modal Diagnostic and Intervention of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
• Design and Evaluation of New MR Pulse Sequence & Modification of Existing Sequences for Image Quality Enhancement
• Neuroimaging Correlates in Evaluating Cognitive Function Following Radiation Therapy
• MRI-Guided Robotic Breast Intervention with Haptic Feedback
• Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI)