Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (2018-2020)
After my master's at SDSU, I wanted to take some time to gain significant clinical exposure and experience. I joined as a research coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Emotion and Social Neuroscience lab with Dr. Daphne Holt and Dr. Roger Tootell.
I worked as a lead coordinator on a research study that scanned healthy controls, first degree relatives, and individuals with psychosis and examined neural correlates of personal space. Here, I gained an extensive experience for two years scanning independently at the Martinos Center, while conducting neuropsychological assessments. This experience fed my passion into pursuing interdisciplinary neuroimaging research.
I was able to present at several local and national conferences from 2018-2020 during my tenure here, and am working on two manuscripts to be submitted for publication this year.
PUBLICATIONS:
1.Barbour, T., Harikumar, A., & Holt, D.J. (2021) Measuring Responses to Social Reward in First Episode Psychosis: Validation of a Novel Experimental Paradigm. Behavioral Paper, In Progress.
2. Harikumar, A., Barbour, T. & Holt, D.J. (2021) Measuring Responses to Social Reward in First Episode Psychosis: Validation of a Novel Experimental Paradigm Utilizing Resting State Functional Connectivity. Imaging Paper, In Progress.
PRESENTATIONS:
1. Harikumar, A., Barbour, T., Nasiriavanaki, Z., Coman, D.C., Hines, S.E., Tootell, R.B.H., & Holt, D.J. (2019) Measuring Responses to Social Reward in First Episode Psychosis Validation of a Novel Experimental Paradigm. Clinical Research Day 2019 at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
2. Harikumar, A., Barbour, T., Nasiriavanaki, Z., Coman, D.C., Hines, S.E., Tootell, R.B.H., & Holt, D.J.(2019) Measuring Responses to Social Reward in First Episode Psychosis Validation of a Novel Experimental Paradigm. Annual Meeting, Society of Biological Psychiatry, Chicago, IL.
3. Harikumar, A., Barbour, T., Nasiriavanaki, Z., Coman, D.C., Hines, S.E., Tootell, R.B.H., & Holt, D.J.(2019) Measuring Responses to Social Reward in First Episode Psychosis Validation of a Novel Experimental Paradigm. Mysell Day, Harvard Psychiatry Research Day Symposium, Boston, MA.
4. Nasiriavanaki, Z., Harikumar, A., Mow, J.L., Tuominen, L.J., Terechina, O., Barbour, T., Coman, D.C., Leathem, L., Hines, S.E., Tootell, R., & Holt, D.J. (2018) The role of the neural system that monitors personal space in social functioning: relationship to social motivation. Clinical Research Day 2018 at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
After my master's at SDSU, I wanted to take some time to gain significant clinical exposure and experience. I joined as a research coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Emotion and Social Neuroscience lab with Dr. Daphne Holt and Dr. Roger Tootell.
I worked as a lead coordinator on a research study that scanned healthy controls, first degree relatives, and individuals with psychosis and examined neural correlates of personal space. Here, I gained an extensive experience for two years scanning independently at the Martinos Center, while conducting neuropsychological assessments. This experience fed my passion into pursuing interdisciplinary neuroimaging research.
I was able to present at several local and national conferences from 2018-2020 during my tenure here, and am working on two manuscripts to be submitted for publication this year.
PUBLICATIONS:
1.Barbour, T., Harikumar, A., & Holt, D.J. (2021) Measuring Responses to Social Reward in First Episode Psychosis: Validation of a Novel Experimental Paradigm. Behavioral Paper, In Progress.
2. Harikumar, A., Barbour, T. & Holt, D.J. (2021) Measuring Responses to Social Reward in First Episode Psychosis: Validation of a Novel Experimental Paradigm Utilizing Resting State Functional Connectivity. Imaging Paper, In Progress.
PRESENTATIONS:
1. Harikumar, A., Barbour, T., Nasiriavanaki, Z., Coman, D.C., Hines, S.E., Tootell, R.B.H., & Holt, D.J. (2019) Measuring Responses to Social Reward in First Episode Psychosis Validation of a Novel Experimental Paradigm. Clinical Research Day 2019 at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
2. Harikumar, A., Barbour, T., Nasiriavanaki, Z., Coman, D.C., Hines, S.E., Tootell, R.B.H., & Holt, D.J.(2019) Measuring Responses to Social Reward in First Episode Psychosis Validation of a Novel Experimental Paradigm. Annual Meeting, Society of Biological Psychiatry, Chicago, IL.
3. Harikumar, A., Barbour, T., Nasiriavanaki, Z., Coman, D.C., Hines, S.E., Tootell, R.B.H., & Holt, D.J.(2019) Measuring Responses to Social Reward in First Episode Psychosis Validation of a Novel Experimental Paradigm. Mysell Day, Harvard Psychiatry Research Day Symposium, Boston, MA.
4. Nasiriavanaki, Z., Harikumar, A., Mow, J.L., Tuominen, L.J., Terechina, O., Barbour, T., Coman, D.C., Leathem, L., Hines, S.E., Tootell, R., & Holt, D.J. (2018) The role of the neural system that monitors personal space in social functioning: relationship to social motivation. Clinical Research Day 2018 at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.