ATILLA GÖNENC, PHD

Harvard title(s): Instructor
McLean title(s): Assistant Physicist, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core
Bio: Dr. Atilla Gonenc is a neuroimaging physicist at McLean Imaging Center in the CCNC with training in multimodal neuroimaging technologies (MRS, DTI, MRI, fMRI, PET) and statistics. Since joining McLean in 2009, he has been developing and implementing different research protocols (Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Substance Abuse, ADHD, Autism, Depression, Insomnia, Aging) for a wide range of patient populations (child, adult, geriatric), as well as optimizing imaging parameters, data collection and analysis. He is the recipient of the prestigious 2010 NARSAD Young Investigator and 2011 Rappaport Mental Health Research Scholar awards and plans to extend his innovative MR data analytical strategies to understand the neurobiological substrates of mental illnesses and substance abuse using NIH, foundation and industry grants.