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		<title>Christina Marini</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christina Marini is a research associate at BPI interested in attention and emotion. She is particularly curious about how attention and emotional balance can be cultivated through training in mindfulness. Christina also works part time as a research associate at UC San Francisco’s Department of Psychiatry. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biopsychology from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ativ Zomet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ativ Zomet is a senior research associate at BPI and a PhD candidate at Tel-Aviv University, Israel in collaboration with UC Berkeley. Her research interest at BPI is in the area of neuroscience, with emphasis on cognitive functions, attention, and behavioral training in order to promote greater cognitive plasticity despite brain injury and psychiatric disorders. Ativ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Merzenich, PhD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Merzenich is the Founder and President of BPI. For more than three decades, Dr. Merzenich has been a leading pioneer in brain plasticity research. In the late 1980s, Dr. Merzenich was on the team that invented the cochlear implant, now distributed by market leader Advanced Bionics. In 1996, Dr. Merzenich was the founding CEO of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainplasticity.com/dr-michael-merzenich/</link>
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		<title>Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Project goal: To create and evaluate the use of a new computerized training program based on the neuroplasticity principles that would help individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The training suite combines several training exercises, aimed at improving the brain machinery controlling processing speed, attention and vigilance, cognitive and social-emotion control, and is meant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainplasticity.com/treatment-for-major-depressive-disorder-mdd/</link>
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		<title>Henry Mahncke, PhD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Henry Mahncke is the COO and a Senior Scientist at BPI.  He is focused on large scale clinical trials to evaluate cognitive training programs in clinical indications including traumatic brain injury and schizophrenia.  Prior to joining BPI, Henry earned a PhD in Neuroscience from UCSF where he studied how the brain processes information that changes over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainplasticity.com/henry-mahncke-phd/</link>
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		<title>Mor Nahum, PhD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mor Nahum is a Research Fellow at BPI interested in social cognition and perceptual learning mechanisms, and how they can be improved and strengthened in various clinical populations (e.g. individuals with schizophrenia, social anxiety, individuals with autistic spectrum disorders, etc.). Mor is also a post-doctoral fellow at Dennis Levi’s lab at UCSF, where she studies how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainplasticity.com/mor-nahum-phd/</link>
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		<title>Neural Correlates of Perceptual Training Improvements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Project goal: To investigate neural correlates &#38; find predictive neural markers of perceptual training improvements in aging adults Supported by: Posit Science Corporation Project leader: Dr. Jyoti Mishra Collaborator: Dr. Adam Gazzaley (Neurology, UCSF)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainplasticity.com/neural-correlates-of-perceptual-training-improvements/</link>
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		<title>Strategies for Interference Resolution Deficits in Aging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Project goal: To develop &#38; evaluate novel strategies for interference resolution deficits in aging. Supported by: UCSF Post-doctoral Research Award, Program in Breakthrough Biomedical Research Award Project leader: Dr. Jyoti Mishra Collaborator: Dr. Adam Gazzaley (Neurology, UCSF)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainplasticity.com/strategies-for-interference-resolution-deficits-in-aging/</link>
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		<title>Tom Van Vleet, PhD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Van Vleet is a Senior Scientist at BPI. He is interested in attentional mechanisms related to the regulation of one&#8217;s attentional state, and how this process can be optimized in normal aging and remediated in neurologically and psychiatrically challenged populations. He is also a Research Neuropsychologist in the VA Northern California Health System and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainplasticity.com/tom-van-vleet/</link>
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		<title>Jyoti Mishra, PhD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jyoti Mishra is a Research Fellow at BPI interested in cognitive control mechanisms related to attention and working memory, and how these facilities can be strengthened in aging and in many neurologically and psychiatrically deficient populations. She is also a post-doctoral researcher at the cognitive neuroimaging laboratory directed by Dr. Adam Gazzaley at UCSF, where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainplasticity.com/jyoti-mishra/</link>
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