Laboratory of attention and brain recovery at Washington University, St. Louis

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The Attention and Brain Recovery Lab (ABRL), directed by Maurizio Corbetta, MD, is part of the Neuro-Imaging Laboratories (NIL) located in the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis. The NIL, directed by Marcus E. Raichle MD, is a multi-departmental (radiology, neurology, psychiatry, psychology, biomedical engineering, neuroscience) laboratory with over 100 researchers, divided in ten research groups interested in the neural basis of cognitive functions including attention, language, memory, emotions, and self-regulation in the adult and developing brain; the neuronal basis of brain hemodynamic signals; and the pathophysiology of a number of neurological and psychiatric disorders including stroke, Parkinson and Alzheimer diseases, depression, and schizophrenia. The NIL is part of the Research Division of Radiological Sciences that includes seven laboratories (Radiopharmaceutical Development, Electronic Radiology, Biomedical MR, Cardiac Imaging, Optical Imaging, Neuroimaging, Molecular Pharmacology) organized around the basic science disciplines in radiology. …