Projects

• Are inflammation and hippocampal volume related?
• The hippocampus and cognition over the lifespan
• How does freesurfer compare to human hippocampus tracing?
• Neuroscience outreach to the community
• Hippocampal shape: Where, anatomically, is dementia first detectable by MRI?
• Visualizing statistical adjustments through video
• If monkeys could choose their own enrichment...
• Emotiv EPOC as a research-grade EEG
• Noteley: structured note-taking for Mendeley

Interests

• Consciousness and its emergence
• Circuit motifs as lego blocks for brains
• Graphs and network models at all scales of connectivity
• Agent-based modeling and complexity in brain function
• Changes in neural function through development, adolescence, and old age
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Predictive processing models blurring lines between sensory and motor systems
• Helping people perceive possibilities and broaden their worldviews
• Promotion of a humanist worldview
• Scientific integrity

Publications

• Memory performance is only associated with hippocampal volume in older and cognitively compromised adults.
  Schmidt MF, Griswold ME, Windham BG, Freeman KB, Mosley TH
  [In preparation]
• A comparison of manual and automated methods of calculating hippocampal volume measurements over the adult lifespan.
  Schmidt MF, Storrs JM, Freeman KB, Jack CR, Turner ST, Griswold ME, Mosley TH
  [In preparation]
• Associations between serum inflammatory markers and hippocampal volume in a community sample.
  Schmidt MF, Freeman KB, Windham BG, Griswold ME, Kullo IJ, Turner ST, Mosley TH
  DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14283
• Genomic Medicine: Putting Our Tools to Use.
  Schmidt MF
  DOI: 10.1126/science.331.6023.1387-f