Banu Ahtam is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and an Associate Scientific Research Staff at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). She is also the Director of the Clinical MEG Service at the Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging & Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC) in BCH. Dr. Ahtam received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. She received a Master of Science degree from the Experimental Psychology Department of the University of Oxford. She completed her doctoral studies at the Psychiatry Department in the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar.
For her doctoral project, she focused on language processing in autism spectrum disorders and typically developing children, using MEG, behavioral, and neuropsychiatric measures. Since 2011, Dr. Ahtam has been leading and working on important projects that will help us understand the brain structure and function of neurodevelopmental disorders using multimodal noninvasive imaging techniques at FNNDSC in BCH/HMS, where she also completed her post-doctoral fellowship.
She is experienced in MEG, EEG, DTI, sMRI, and rs-fMRI, including protocol design, data acquisition, and statistical processing. She is also deeply familiar with pediatric neuroimaging research of neurodevelopmental disorders and has a strong background in neuropsychological measures.
Publications
Symptoms Do Not Predict White Matter Injury in the Watershed Regions in Children with Moyamoya. View Abstract
Quantifying brain development in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: The magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy protocol. View Abstract
Magnetoencephalography for the pediatric population, indications, acquisition and interpretation for the clinician. View Abstract
Reconsidering the nature of threat in infancy: Integrating animal and human studies on neurobiological effects of infant stress. View Abstract
Somatic Mosaicism in PIK3CA Variant Correlates With Stereoelectroencephalography-Derived Electrophysiology. View Abstract
Linking maternal disrupted interaction and infant limbic volumes: The role of infant cortisol output. View Abstract
Negative versus withdrawn maternal behavior: Differential associations with infant gray and white matter during the first 2?years of life. View Abstract
Morphological Features of Language Regions in Individuals with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. View Abstract
Maternal Childhood Abuse Versus Neglect Associated with Differential Patterns of Infant Brain Development. View Abstract
Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Demonstrates White Matter Alterations in Watershed Regions in Children With Moyamoya Without Stroke or Silent Infarct. View Abstract
Home language and literacy environment and its relationship to socioeconomic status and white matter structure in infancy. View Abstract
Maternal Childhood Maltreatment Is Associated With Lower Infant Gray Matter Volume and Amygdala Volume During the First Two Years of Life. View Abstract
Intergenerational Transmission of Cortical Sulcal Patterns from Mothers to their Children. View Abstract
Brain Characteristics Noted Prior to and Following Cranial Orthotic Treatment. View Abstract
Identification of neuronal structures and pathways corresponding to clinical functioning in galactosemia. View Abstract
Semantic Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders Is Associated With the Timing of Language Acquisition: A Magnetoencephalographic Study. View Abstract
Epileptic Activity Intrinsically Generated in the Human Cerebellum. View Abstract
Altered White Matter Organization in the TUBB3 E410K Syndrome. View Abstract
Resting-State fMRI Networks in Children with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. View Abstract
Altered structural brain connectivity involving the dorsal and ventral language pathways in 16p11.2 deletion syndrome. View Abstract
Altered White Matter Connectivity Associated with Intergyral Brain Disorganization in Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy. View Abstract
Exploring early human brain development with structural and physiological neuroimaging. View Abstract
Elevated Levels of Atypical Handedness in Autism: Meta-Analyses. View Abstract
BabyMEG: A whole-head pediatric magnetoencephalography system for human brain development research. View Abstract
Altered Structural Brain Networks in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. View Abstract
Cortical somatosensory reorganization in children with spastic cerebral palsy: a multimodal neuroimaging study. View Abstract
Localization of the epileptogenic foci in tuberous sclerosis complex: a pediatric case report. View Abstract
Current and Emerging Potential for Magnetoencephalography in Pediatric Epilepsy View Abstract
Effect of maternal education on Turkish mothers’ styles of reminiscing with their children View Abstract
