Dr. Amit Etkin This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. fMRI - Center People

   www.fmri.org/staff.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/26/2007   Last Visited: 12/26/2007

   Amit Etkin
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   Amit Etkin, Ph.D.

2. 2. DATE OF CLASS

   www.fmri.org/course.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/10/2004   Last Visited: 9/14/2005

   Lecturer: Amit Etkin

3. 3. ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists | Editorial

   speech-language-pathology-audi - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/20/2005   Last Visited: 12/14/2006

   The study was led by a Columbia University Medical Center MD/PhD student, Amit Etkin, who explained that, "Tremendous knowledge exists about how our brains deal with cognitive distractions, but we know very little about how we deal with emotional distractions. This is something we constantly do in our everyday lives, otherwise we would be overwhelmed by every emotional trigger we encounter."
   
   Dr. Etkin worked in the Columbia University Medical Center labs of Joy Hirsch, PhD, professor of neuroradiology and psychology, and director of the fMRI Research Center and Eric Kandel, MD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute senior investigator, Fred Kavli Professor and Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences.
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   To study emotional regulation, Dr. Etkin collaborated with Tobias Egner, PhD, a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Hirsch's lab, who has used fMRI to study non-emotional forms of attentional control.
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   "Interestingly, several studies have found that rostral cingulate activity predicts whether a depressed patient will respond to medication," Dr. Etkin stated.