Tuning Brain Networks with Real-time Neurofeedback: Restoring Agency in Mental Health
| Monday, May 11, 2026 |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
| South Room |
Overview
Dr. Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli
Details
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
1. Define Resting State Networks
2. Describe the Default Mode Network (DMN) its clinical relevance. Specifically, describe the associations of DMN connectivity and psychopathology.
3. Describe the developmental trajectory of DMN connectivity.
4. Describe the functional associations between the DMN and the Central Executive Network (CEN) and the relevance to cognition and consciousness.
Speaker
Dr. Susan Whitfield-gabrieli
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Presenter
Biography
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli is the Tommy Fuss Endowed Chair in Precision Psychiatry, Associate Director of the Center for Precision Psychiatry (CPP), Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of EPIC Lab in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School. She is also a Research Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of the Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center (NUBIC) at Northeastern University. Dr. Whitfield-Gabrieli's primary mission is to understand the brain basis of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders and to promote translation of this knowledge into clinical practice. Towards this end, she employs multimodal neuroimaging techniques to investigate the neural underpinnings of typical and atypical development as well as the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and ADHD. Her ultimate mission is to discover biomarkers, derived from functional and anatomical brain networks, which may be utilized for (a) prediction of therapeutic response, geared towards precision medicine, (b) early detection, which potentiates early interventions designed to mitigate symptom progression, and (c) precision network therapeutics (e.g., real-time fMRI neurofeedback) with the hope of improving, or augmenting, currently available treatments.