2016 ECR Award at ABS Meeting
MICCN Research Fellow wins ECR Award for combined brain stimulation and neuroimaging research.
Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences (MICCN) Research Fellow, Dr Nigel Rogasch, has been awarded the 2016 Early Career Researcher (ECR) Award at this year’s Australasian Brain Stimulation Meeting, which took place on 28-29 July 2016 in Melbourne.
The ABSMeet ECR Award recognises outstanding achievement in the field of Brain Stimulation by an individual researcher within the first five years of their post-doctoral work.
Dr Rogasch’s research focuses on combining non-invasive brain stimulation techniques with neuroimaging methods to investigate brain function. He is particularly focussed on which neural mechanisms are important for short-term memory, how these mechanisms are disrupted in people with schizophrenia, and how brain stimulation can be used to alter these mechanisms.
At ABSMeet 2016, Dr Rogasch introduced the transcranial magnetic stimulation electroencephalography (TMS-EEG) signal analyser (TESA); open-source software that he has developed for analysing combined brain stimulation/neuroimaging data. This software is the first of its kind internationally, and was developed in collaboration with researchers in Australia, Finland and Canada.
We congratulate Dr Rogasch on this fantastic achievement.
Contact: Dr Nigel Rogasch, t: 03 9902 9801, e: Nigel.Rogasch@monash.edu