Welcome to the website of Angela R. Laird. My research focuses on systems modeling of functional neuroimaging data through the development of meta-analysis tools, functional ontologies, and connectivity methods.
Dr. Angela R. Laird, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Imaging Center
UT Health Science Center
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, Texas
78229-3900
lairda@uthscsa.edu
Phone: 210-567-8136
Fax: 210-567-8152
Dr. Laird serves as instructor for a graduate course, “Meta-Analysis in Cognitive Neuroimaging”, that is cross-listed as an interdisciplinary course at UTHSCSA (INTD 5046) and in the biology and psychology departments at UTSA (BIO 6973 and PSY 6973).
In this course, students are guided in choosing a meta-analysis topic, searching PubMed to find the relevant literature, coding the papers into the BrainMap database, and performing an ALE meta-analysis of the coordinate results. At the end of the semester, students give an oral presentation of their results and write a term paper written in traditional scientific format. One of these previous student meta-analyses was deemed appropriate for publication (Petacchi et al., 2005).
This course gives first- or second-year graduate students an introduction into the basics of functional neuroimaging and an opportunity to experience research first-hand without undergoing the difficulties inherent in teaching data acquisition and analysis of experiments to novice students.