Posts by Randy L. Buckner, PhD
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Third Somatomotor Map Distinguished in Human Cerebellum
Randy L. Buckner, PhD, and colleagues have provided direct support for a third somatomotor map in the vermis of the cerebellum by using intensive, repeated functional MRI scanning of individuals performing movements across multiple body parts.
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Frequent Social Stress Identifies First-year College Students at Highest Risk of Psychopathology
Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante, Randy L. Buckner, PhD, and colleagues determined in an intensive full-year study of elite first-year college students that frequent social stress is more likely than academic stress to be associated with subsequent psychological problems.
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The Distributed Organization of the Language Network Parallels Other Association Networks
Rodrigo M. Braga, PhD, and Randy L. Buckner, PhD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, and colleagues used functional connectivity to identify a language network within individuals and showed it is just one of multiple similarly organized, differentially specialized distributed networks.
Biography
Randy L. Buckner, PhD, is the Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience at Harvard University affiliated with the Center for Brain Science and Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been faculty of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging for more than 20 years. Trained in cognitive psychology and systems neuroscience, Dr. Buckner’s work has centered on understanding how the brain supports high-level cognition and why dysfunction arises in illness. Dr. Buckner received his BA in Psychology and his PhD in Neurosciences from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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