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纽约哥伦比亚大学心理学系博士后岗位

日期:2008-03-14
Institution

Columbia University, Department of Psychology

Position

Postdoctoral researcher

Location

New York, NY

Date Posted

March 12th 2008

Date Expires

May 11th 2008

Tags

postdoc, post doctoral, columbia, new york, ny, and usa

Description

Post-doctoral work in the Cognitive and Affective Control lab of Dr. TorWager, focusing on fMRI imaging of expectancy and cognitive modulationof pain and negative emotion. Ongoing research themes include:

a) placebo effects in pain and stress responses
b) voluntary regulation of emotion and associated physiological responses
c) Affective priming and its effects on brain and peripheral responsesto noxious stimuli
e) Models of brain-peripheral pathways mediating heart-rate, skinconductance, and pupil responses to noxious stimuli and laboratory stressors
f) Arterial Spin Labeling imaging of social evaluative threat andassociated physiological responses
g) combined fMRI and TMS (same-subject and interleaved) to probecausality in brain regulatory pathways
h) simultaneous EEG/fMRI
i) development of advanced fMRI analysis strategies to facilitatemodeling of brain pathways

The successful applicant would join an active, collaborative lab groupin Columbia University’s psychology department (the Social, Cognitive,and Affective Neuroscience Unit). This work is funded by an R01 to studyplacebo and expectancy manipulations in pain and emotion (NIMH), an NSFgrant to develop and test multi-level path models of corticalsubcortical interactions in pain, and an R01 grant (NIMH) to studyemotion regulation. Desired characteristics in an applicant includeprior experience with fMRI, a strong quantitative (esp. statistical)background, and expertise in pain and/or affective psychophysiology.

Contact

The position is available now and interviews will be conducted until itis filled. Please send a cover letter and C.V. to Dr. Tor Wager, tor@psych.columbia.edu.
See also: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/tor/
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