MULTIMODAL MRI IN AUTISM

Brain Development Imaging Laboratory

San Diego State University & University of California, San Diego

The Brain Development Imaging Laboratory (BDIL) at the Dept. of Psychology, San Diego State University, is offering one NIH-funded postdoctoral position in multimodal functional and anatomical MRI. Research will apply fMRI, functional connectivity MRI, diffusion-tensor imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and structural MRI techniques to the study of children with autism spectrum disorders and typically developing children. Additional techniques include eye-tracking. BDIL (www.sci.sdsu.edu/bdil) closely cooperates with several MR physics and other groups at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and has full access to the UCSD Center for Functional MRI (http://fmri.ucsd.edu/), which houses two research-dedicated 3T human scanners.

Applicants should have experience in functional MRI (data acquisition, processing, statistics). Additional experience in the study of children (especially autism) or expertise in other MRI modalities (fcMRI, DTI, MRS), neuropsychological testing, or programming will be relevant, but not indispensable.

Please e-mail CV, Research Statement, reprints, and 2-3 letters to Ralph-Axel Müller at: amueller@sciences.sdsu.edu.