Rajendra D. Badgaiyan
Education and Training
M.D. (1982), Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, India M.B.,B.S. (1978), Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, India M.A. Psychology (1984), Bhopal University, India M.M.Sc. (2008) Harvard UniversityPostdoctoral Training (Cognitive Neuroscience; Nuclear Medicine): Harvard University (Daniel Schacter), University of Pittsburgh (BJ Casey), University of Oregon (michael Posner) Residency Training in Psychiatry (2003): Harvard Medical School
Medical Licensure: Full license, Massachusetts, New York
Academic Positions
2009- current Associate professor of Psychiatry, SUNY at Buffalo 2006-08: Massachusetts Inst of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1999- current: Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School 1998- current: Harvard University 1997-1998: University of Pittsburgh 1995-1996: University of Oregon 1986-1995: Banaras Hindu University, India 1984-1986: Medical College, Rohtak, India 1979-1983: Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal
Editor
Guest Editor: Special issue on Neurotransmitter Imaging in Current Medical Imaging and review, 2011
PhilPapers: Conscious and Non-conscious Memory
Open Journal of Philosophy
Member Editorial Board
Human Brain Mapping The Open Nuclear Medicine Journal International Journal of Neuroprotection and Neuroregeneration Open Journal of Neuroscience Element World Medical Imaging Research World Medical Laboratory Research
Member National Advisory Panel/Study Section
National Institutes of Health, USA National Science Foundation, USA MGH Research Day Submission Research Day, VA WNY, Buffalo Member, Scientific Review Committee, VA Western NY
Research Funding:
National Institutes of Health (PI) Veterans Administration Merit Review Award (PI) Dana Foundation (PI) Dupont Foundation(PI) Shriner Hospital Foundation (Co-PI) Livingston Award MacArthur Foundation fellowship McDonnell and Pew Memorial Trust fellowship
Papers Taught as Essential Reading (Selected)
Badgaiyan, RD (2000): Sophomore (Psych 970), Harvard University Badgaiyan, RD et al (1999): BA (Linguistic Q1L11), University of Wales, UK Badgaiyan, RD (2000): Graduate seminar, Riken Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan Badgaiyan and Posner (1998): Graduate Course, Cognition, Cornell University Schacter and Badgaiyan (2001): Psychol 20, Univ of North Carolina; Psych 398, Univ of Waterloo; Psychology 511-01 Georgetown Univ Casey et al (2000): Science and Engineering in Medicine (14:125:450), Rutgers Univ.
National Research Prize
B.K. Anand National Research Prize for the most outstanding research in physiology and allied sciences, 1991
Other Awards/Honors
Harvard-MIT Clinical Investigator Fellowship, 2006 Dana Fellow, 2004 Best paper award, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 2004 Solomon Award for the best resident researcher, Harvard Medical School, 2002 Dupont-Warren Award, 2002 Livingston Award, 2002 Best Paper Award, Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India, 1991 Invited contributor, Advances in Physiological Sciences, 1992 Selected by Society of Nuclear Medicine as a significant contributor, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. Chairman, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Ayurveda and Health Member, Promotions Committee, SUNY at Buffalo
Grant Reviewer
National Institutes of Health (Special panel for Conte Center)
European Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Israel National Science Foundation
Italian ministry of Science
Jewish Hospital Foundation
Welcome Trust, UK
German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Research Supervision
Mentored Ph.D. (Neurophysiology) and M.D. students: Banaras Hindu University, India
Invited Speaker (Selected):
International
Invited to deliver special symposium lecture in the Annual meeting of International Memory Disorders Research Society, at Barcelona, Spain, 2011Special lecture in the Conference on Medicine and Beyond, University of Connecticut Medical Center, 2011
Mapping of Dopamine release in executive inhibition. 17th Annual Meeting, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Quebec City, 2011
Invited lecture on Detection, mapping and measurement of dopamine released in the human brainduring behavioral and cognitive processing; in the 5th Molecular Imaging in Drug Discovery and Development Conference, Philadelphia, 2011
Special lecture, European Society of Nuclear Medicine, Munich, 2008
Special lecture, European Society of Nuclear Medicine, Munich, 2008
KN Udupa Memorial Lecture, Varanasi, India, 2005
Special lecture on neurobiology of consciousness, Univ of Connecticut Med Center. Farmington, CT, 2005
Neurosciences young investigator award symposium, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2004
Keynote address: Third International Symposium on Cognition, Education and Mental Health, 1999
Gauss symposium lecture, Munich, 1993
Special invited symposium lecture: Second Congress of Asian and Oceanian
Physiological Societies,1990
Invited seminar, King's College, London, 1989
National
Special lecture, Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, SUNY at Buffalo, 2010Invited speaker SUNY Symposium on Neurodegenerative Diseases and Stem Cell Therapeutics, 2010
Invited speaker, 28th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Great Lakes Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2010
Psychiatry Grand rounds, NY psychiatric Institute and University at Buffalo, 2010
Neurology Grand rounds, Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, NY, 2010
Seminar, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, 2009
Special lecture, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, 2009
Special lecture, Alzheimer’s center, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison 2009
Special lecture on Consciousness, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2007
Special lecture, University of Connecticut Medical Center, 2005
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, 2005; 2009
Grand rounds, VA Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 2003
Invited speaker, Society for neuroscience, 2002
Grand rounds, Medical College of Ohio, 2002.
Grand rounds, Harvard Medical School, 2000
Invited lecture, Harvard Psychiatry Day, Harvard Medical School, 1999
Special guest lecture: Second Annual Conference of the Association of Biomedical
Scientists, 1992
Invited lecture, University of Iowa, 1991
Membership of Scientific Societies
Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2003 American Psychiatric Association, 2001 Society for Neuroscience, 1997 International Brain Research Organization, 1989 International Union of Physiological Sciences, 1989 Organization of Human Brain Mapping, 1997 Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 1995 New York Academy of Sciences, 1997 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1996 Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India, 1979
Research Techniques Used
Neurotransmitter Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Molecular imaging technique, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Neuroreceptor modulation techniques using PET Neuroimaging using PET: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Neuroimaging using fMRI: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Neuroimaging using 64 and 128 channels EEG and ERP: University of Oregon UNIX (super user; HP and SGI), Macintosh, and Windows platforms Used softwares for fMRI, ERP and PET data analysis, various statistical and graphical applications Experience of programming using PsyScope and MatLab. Patch clamping and computational modeling. Stereotaxic procedures, intracerebral cannulation and infusion, micro-iontophoresis, electrical and chemical lesion and stimulation Electrophysiological and neurochemical methods. neural transplantation, histological procedures. Behavioral and cognitive studies using laboratory animals: learning and memory, motivational drives, motor activity, feeding, drinking, circadian rhythm, thermoregulation, self stimulation, and sexual behavior
Other Academic Activities
Book Review Academic Press Elsevier Press Manuscript Review (Selected Journals) Archives of General Psychiatry Behavioral and Brain Sciences Biological Psychiatry Brain Research Brain Research Interactive Cerebral Cortex Cognitive Brain Research Consciousness and Cognition Current Medical Imaging and Review Elements European Journal of Neuroscience Experimental Brain Research Human Brain Mapping Internat J Hypertherm International Journal of Neuroprotection and Neuroregeneration Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Menopause Neurobiol. Review NeuroImage Neuropsychologia Neuropsychopharmacology NeuroReport Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA Proceedings of the Royal Society, London: Biological Sciences Psychonomic Bulletin & Review The Open Nuclear Medicine Journal
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