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Vincent
P. Clark
Associate Professor
Email: vclark@unm.edu
Office: Logan 118
Phone: 505-277-2223
Degree Received
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Research Interests
We use a variety of tools to investigate
the relationship between the mind and brain. In association with
The MIND Institute (http://www.mrn.org)
we employ structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), event-related potentials
(ERPs) and other methods to examine human brain structure and
function. Using these tools, we are investigating the basic organizational
principles of perception, learning, memory, attention and language
in healthy individuals. We also use these methods to examine
the neural basis of psychiatric disorders such as drug and gambling
addiction, psychopathy and schizophrenia. We are developing
new methods of data analysis for combining data from different
imaging techniques in order to gain fundamentally new information
on human brain structure and function, called multimodal imaging, and are using
this and other methods to expand the boundaries
of brain imaging techniques. Our most recent work uses transcranial direct
current stimulation (tDCS) to increase learning and memory in healthy subjects.
Brain stimulation may lead to a variety of innovations in
classroom education and professional training, along with new methods for
treating clinical disorders. Dr. Clark is also serving as director of the new
Clinical Neuroscience Center being built in Logan Hall, which will include
TMS and tDCS laboratories, along with multiple high-density EEG systems and a
data storage and analysis core.
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