Michelle Hampson, PhD
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical ImagingCards
About
Titles
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Director of real-time fMRI
Biography
After completing an undergraduate degree in Computing Science at the University of Alberta, Dr. Hampson did her graduate work in Boston University's Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, a department focused on computational neural network models of brain systems. She came to Yale as a postdoc to pursue her interests in human functional neuroimaging. During her postdoc, Dr. Hampson conducted some of the earliest studies of resting-state functional connectivity, validating the technique and relating resting-state functional connectivity measures to behavioral variables. Later, she turned her focus to using real-time fMRI neurofeedback for training people to control their brain activity patterns. She is interested in novel functional neuroimaging techniques and psychiatric applications of these techniques.
Appointments
Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
ProfessorPrimaryChild Study Center
Associate Professor on TermSecondaryPsychiatry
Associate Professor on TermSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Bioimaging Sciences
- Child Study Center
- Hampson Lab
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Magnetic Resonance Research Center
- MR Center
- Neural Disorders
- Neuroscience Track
- Psychiatry
- Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- PhD
- Boston University (1999)
- BS
- University of Alberta, Computing Science (1993)
Research
Overview
1. We use neurofeedback of real-time fMRI data to train patients with tic disorders, OCD, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder to control clinically relevant brain activity patterns. An important question is whether this training can improve their symptoms.
2. We evaluate changes in resting state functional connectivity between brain areas before and after neurofeedback. This allows us to investigate how neurofeedback alters brain networks. Also, by correlating changes in brain connectivity with symptom changes, we can gain insight into the neural circuitry that gives rise to symptoms.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
Media
News
- August 21, 2019Source: Yale News
Yale study uses real-time fMRI to treat Tourette Syndrome
- July 17, 2018Source: Chronic Stress
Cerebellar and prefrontal cortical alterations in PTSD: Structural and functional evidence
- April 10, 2015
The MRRC is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Michelle Hampson as the Director of Real-Time fMRI
- November 12, 2014Source: Yale Daily News
Neurotherapy more successful for some