TWO POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT THE UCSF NEUROLOGY DEPARTMENT, Parnassus Campus, San Francisco.

Candidates are sought to participate in a multidisciplinary research project studying the cognitive and neural basis of speech and language deficits in neurological patients, with primary focus on Progressive Aphasia and related disorders.  Vascular, epilepsy and brain-tumor patient populations will also be studied. The project entails a collaborative effort to design experiments, administer standard and research test batteries and conduct structural and functional imaging experiments and analyses.  The Department of Neurology at UCSF has recently acquired a state-of-the-art 3T MRI scanner that will be solely devoted to research. Studies will combine functional MRI, Voxel-based morphometry, MEG and intraoperative mapping techniques to investigate brain-behavioral correlations, with a particular emphasis in semantic processing.

Research is conducted in collaborations with scientist between various departments at UCSF, UC Berkeley and the Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders at the VA Northern California Medical Health System, Martinez.

Two positions are available:

1) Post-doctoral fellow with graduate training in neuroimaging techniques and language processing.  Programming skills and experience with SPSS, Matlab, Psyscope, Eprime and SPM are highly appreciated but not essential.

2) Research Associate with a BA in Psychology, Linguistics, Communicative disorders, Cognitive Neuroscience or related topics and some research experience. Previous neuroimaging experience is desired but not necessary. 

Good basic computer skills are necessary. 

If interested send a CV and two names of two possible references to Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini at [log in to unmask].

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