John Gabrieli is a

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist specializing in neuroscience that deals with the anatomy and function of neurons, Biological neural network, neural circuits, and glia, and their Behavior, behavioral, biological, and psycholo ...

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

, and an Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He is the Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, a faculty member in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center, part of the McGovern Institute. Gabrieli is an expert on the brain mechanisms of human cognition, including memory, thought and emotion. His work includes

neuroimaging Neuroimaging is the use of quantitative (computational) techniques to study the neuroanatomy, structure and function of the central nervous system, developed as an objective way of scientifically studying the healthy human brain in a non-invasive ...

studies on healthy adults and children as well as clinical patients with many different brain disorders, including

schizophrenia Schizophrenia () is a mental disorder characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, Auditory hallucination#Schizophrenia, hearing voices), delusions, thought disorder, disorganized thinking and behavior, and Reduced affect display, f ...

, depression,

Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems wit ...

, autism and dyslexia. As a graduate student with Suzanne Corkin at MIT he carried out research with the famous HM, who was a globally amnesic patient as a result of epileptic surgery. Gabrieli was able to show the importance of the parahippocampal cortex in the formation of memories. In collaboration with Christopher deCharms and colleagues he was the first to demonstrate that human subjects could learn to control their own brain activity using real-time feedback from functional MRI. One of his major current interests is dyslexia, in particular the use of brain imaging to identify children who are at risk for reading difficulties and to understand how reading instruction affects the brain. In 2008 Gabrieli was elected as a fellow of the

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, which cited his "penetrating analyses of the nature of human memory, its neural substrates, its development, and its problems."

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McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

McGovern Institute profile of John Gabrieli

Gabrieli lab

Athinoula A Martinos Imaging Center at MIT
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American cognitive neuroscientists Memory researchers Fellows of the Society of Experimental Psychologists Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Yale University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Neuroimaging researchers Dyslexia researchers {{US-med-bio-stub