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Welcome and Thank You: Executive Committee Election Results

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:03:04 +0000

Welcome and Thank You: Executive Committee Election Results Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 09/24/2018 - 12:03

The ICS Executive Committee provides advice and oversight to support the Institute's governance and operations. Representatives are nominated and selected through elections. Thanks to each of our wonderful slate of candidates, and for those who voted.

Welcome to our new representatives:

Faculty - Cinnamon Bidwell and James Martin
Student - Shannon McKnight

A big thank you to the following representatives for their dedicated service on the board:

Faculty - Alaa Ahmed and Rob Rupert
Student - Steve Sommer

Continuing on as representatives:

Christine Brennan, Donna Caccamise, Mike Mozer, Tammy Sumner, Karli Watson

ICS thanks those leaving the Executive Committee after their time of service, and welcome the newly elected members.

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CU Boulder Today Features ICS Fellow Leysia Palen's Research on Social Media and Crisis

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:23:14 +0000

CU Boulder Today Features ICS Fellow Leysia Palen's Research on Social Media and Crisis Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 09/17/2018 - 14:23

"I am interested in the nature of human cooperation and coordination. How does it happen? How does it fail? And what can we do to make it better?" - Professor Leysia Palen replied when asked why she is involved in the growing field of crisis informatics.

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CANLab Partners with cliexa® for Multidimensional Pain Tracking Research

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:33:38 +0000

CANLab Partners with cliexa® for Multidimensional Pain Tracking Research Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/09/2018 - 11:33

cliexa® Partners with the University of Colorado Boulder's Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab (CANLab) for Multidimensional Pain Tracking and Predictive Analytics Research.

cliexa, Inc., which offers a suite of mobile platforms for chronic disease management, announces its collaboration with CU Boulder’s CANLab and Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS). cliexa will collaborate with CANLab’s team, headed by Professor Tor Wager, as they lead in multidimensional pain tracking and predictive analytics research.

CU Boulder jointly filed a provisional patent with cliexa for the multidimensional objective pain concept with CANLab. The CANLab focuses on identifying a particular pattern of brain activity, which is diagnostic of physical pain. cliexa-Ease’s mobile platform hosts the research concept and is being used to further develop CANLab’s existing pain studies. cliexa-Ease will deliver an exclusive pain assessment model, which, in collaboration with CU Boulder, anticipates commercialization by mid 2018.

Mehmet Kazgan, founder and CEO of cliexa, explains how they are excited about the partnership with Wager’s CANLab because of its “leading research studies for multidimensional pain tracking.” He also describes how “working with neuroscientists at University of Colorado Boulder is taking [the cliexa platform] to the next level of objectifying patient outputs with multiple reference points.”

Professor Wager highlights how the collaboration will “expand our ability to understand how emotion affects pain in daily life.” Dr. Pavel Goldstein, the scientific lead of the project, adds the partnership will provide both “an incredible opportunity to establish a platform for researching chronic pain conditions” and “important feedback to pain patients and their clinicians with unique information about patient health.”

http://www.cliexa.com/2018/03/cliexa-partners-institute-cognitive-science-university-colorado-boulder/

About Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab

Professor Tor Wager leads CANLab, which is housed by CU Boulder’s Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) and the Psychology and Neuroscience Department. CANLab uses machine-learning to develop fMRI-based biomarkers for clinically relevant outcomes, such as pain. It subsequently tests how psychological factors influence these biomarkers. The lab also engages in collaborative, translational research, which incorporates brain systems-level analyses into the study of clinical disorders, including PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, and chronic pain.

Learn more about the CANLab at https://canlabweb.colorado.edu

About cliexa
The mobile platform technology developed by cliexa enables patients to track their chronic disease activity by quantifying symptoms using scientifically-proven and clinically-validated scoring models. cliexa delivers quantified disease activity and medication adherence through patient reported outcomes through real-time integration to electronic medical records, which streamline processes and increase efficiency in population health management.

Learn more about cliexa at www.cliexa.com

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Marie Banich joins Chancellor Phil DiStefano in LA for BuffTalks!

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:02:54 +0000

Marie Banich joins Chancellor Phil DiStefano in LA for BuffTalks! Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/22/2018 - 12:02

Dr. Marie Banich spoke on how Banich Lab uses brain imaging techniques to understand the neural systems that process emotion, social information and rewards.

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Wager Lab Article Published through Nature Neuroscience!

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:54:02 +0000

Wager Lab Article Published through Nature Neuroscience! Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/22/2018 - 11:54

Check out Wager Lab's article on representations of pain in February's Nature Neuroscience!

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