naomi.hunsaker@utah.edu

Naomi Hunsaker, PHD

As a neuroimaging analyst, I have extensive clinical and research experience with specific training and expertise in advanced neuroimaging techniques and have applied these skills across many different types of clinical populations, including pediatric traumatic brain injury, sports concussion, autism, 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, and Alzheimer’s disease.My work involves evaluating and developing novel pipelines and analytic neuroimaging methods with the goal of integrating these outcome variables into larger multidisciplinary datasets. Specifically, my expertise is in advanced neuroimaging analysis techniques(diffusion and perfusion imaging as well as volumetric analyses, functional connectivity, FLAIR, etc.)using high-performance computing (HPC) systems. However, my research has always focused on how information and mental experiences are coded and represented throughout the brain, specifically by assessing the patterns of cognitive strengths and weaknesses that scale with disease / clinical severity or dosage of a genetic mutation. I have completed research for several NIH-funded grants and successfully collaborated within a number of large consortia.