Michelle Hampson, PhD

Contact

Address:
Yale University, School of Medicine
Magnetic Resonance Research Center
TAC, N121, 300 Cedar Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8043
United States

Email: michelle.hampson@yale.edu
Telephone: (203) 737-5994
Fax: (203) 785-6534

Education

PhD Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, 2000

Please click here for Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

I am interested in the development and application of new functional imaging paradigms that examine brain function at the systems level. In the last few years, I have been studying the relationships between behavioural variables  and the strengths of specific brain connections in order to gain insight into the functional relevance of those connections. In addition, I have been examining event-related brain activations using a correlation-based alternative to conventional event-related protocols that does not require knowledge regarding the time of occurrence of different events. I am interested in continuing a research program focused on the application of these methods, and the development of new imaging methods, to address questions in clinical and cognitive neuroscience. One new area of particular
 interest is the development of biofeedback of real-time fMRI data as both a clinical treatment for mental disorders and a tool for investigating human brain function.

Selected Publications

1. Hampson, M., Tokoglu, F., King, R.A., Constable, R.T., Leckman, J.F. 2009. Brain areas co-activating with motor cortex during chronic motor tics and intentional movements. Biological Psychiatry, 65(7): 594-9.
2. Hoffman, R.E., Anderson, A.W., Varanko, M., Gore, J.C., Coric, V., Hampson, M. 2008. Time course of regional brain activation associated with onset of auditory/verbal hallucinations. British Journal of Psychiatry,193: 424-425.
3. Skudlarski, P., Jagannathan, K., Calhoun, V.D., Hampson, M., Skudlarska, B.A., Pearlson, G. 2008. Measuring brain connectivity: diffusion tensor imaging validates resting state temporal correlations. NeuroImage, 43(3): 554-61.
4. Hoffman, R., Hampson, M. Wu, K., Anderson, A., Gore, J., Buchanan, R.J., Constable, T. Hawkins, K., Sahay, N., Krystal, J.H., 2007. Probing the pathophysiology of auditory hallucinations by combining functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Cerebral Cortex, 17: 2733-2743.
5. Hampson, M., Driesen, N.R., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J.C., Constable, R.T. 2006. Brain connectivity related to working memory performance. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26(51): 13338-13343.
6. Hampson, M., Tokoglu, F., Sun, Z. Schafer, R., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J.C., Constable, R.T., 2006. Connectivity-behaviour analysis reveals that functional connectivity between left BA39 and Broca's area varies with reading ability. NeuroImage, 31: 513-519.
7. Hampson, M., Olson, I.R., Leung, H.C., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J.C. 2004. Changes in functional connectivity of MT/v5 with visual motion input. NeuroReport, 15(8): 1315-9.
8. Hampson, M., Peterson, B., Skudlarski, P., Gatenby, C. and Gore, J. 2002. Detection of functional connectivity using temporal correlations in MR images. Human Brain Mapping, 15: 247-262.

For a further list of Hampson's publications, please see PubMed.