Electric Medicine and the Brain

Marom Bikson is a Cattell Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the City College of New York (CCNY) of the City University of New York (CUNY) and codirector of the Neural Engineering Group at the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering.

Richard J. Haier is professor emeritus at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. Haier is also the associate editor of the Intelligence journal and the president-elect of the International Society for Intelligence Research.

Alayar Kangarlu is an associate professor in the psychiatry department at Columbia University. His research is on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and its application in medicine. While at Ohio State University in 1996, their team built an 8 Tesla MRI scanner.

Leah Moran is a postdoctoral research fellow at New York State Psychiatric Institute. Moran’s research involved neuroimaging techniques applied to psychiatric disorders with the aim of improving conventional treatments and informing novel treatment strategies.

Tarique Perera is a board-certified psychiatrist with offices in Greenwich and Danbury, Connecticut, and Manhattan. He received his medical doctorate at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency training at Columbia University.

Michael Weisend is a neuroscientist whose research uses structural and functional neuroimaging to investigate normal memory, epilepsy, mental illness, and cognitive dysfunction.