Deirdre von Pechmann Clinical Research Assistant/ ERP Lab manager Clinical Neuroscience & Development Laboratory 200 Retreat Avenue Whitehall Building - Institute of Living Hartford CT 06106 Phone: 860-545-7798 Email: Dvonpechman@harthosp.org

Who Am I?

Deirdre came to the US from Ireland in 2000 after receiving her B.S. in Chemical Sciences from the Dublin Institute of Technology and Dublin City University. She joined the Cognitive Neurophysiology lab at The Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, New York in April 2000, where she spent 2.5 years working as a Research Assistant/EEG Technologist. Then she moved to Boston and for 5 years she held the position of chief technologist in the MEG/EEG lab at the Athinoula Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. She joined the Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the Olin Center as a research assistant and the electrophysiology lab manager in August 2007.

Roles & Responsibilities

Here at the Olin center she is responsible for the day to day running of the ERP lab. She will also be involved in studies with the Anxiety Disorder Center

Publications/Papers in Preparation

Murray, M.M., Foxe, D.M., Javitt, D.C., and Foxe, J.J.. Setting Boundaries: Brain dynamics of Modal and Amodal Illusory Shape Completion in Humans. Journal Neuroscience 2004 Aug 4;24(31):6898-903

Hester, R., Murphy, K., Foxe, J.J., Javitt, D.C., Foxe, D.M., Garavan, H. Predicting Success: Patterns of pre-target cortical activation and deactivation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2004 Jun; 16(5): 776-8.

Knake, S., Halgren, E., Shiraishi, H., Hara, K., Hamer, H.M., Grant, P.E., Carr, V.A., Foxe, D.M., Camposano, S., Busa, E., Witzel, T., Hamalainen, M.S., Ahlfors, S.P, Bromfield, E.B., Black P.M, Bourgeois, B.F, Cole, A.J., Cosgrove, G.R., Dworetzky, B.A., Madsen J.R, Larsson P.G, Schomer D.L, Thiele, E.A, Dale, A.M, Rosen, B.R., Stufflebeam, S.M. The value of multichannel MEG and EEG in the presurgical evaluation of 70 epilepsy patients. Epilepsy Research. 2006 Apr;69(1):80-6. EPub 2006 Mar 3

von Pechmann, D.M., Lin, F.H, Knake, S., Ahlfors, S.P., Halgren, E., Stufflebeam, S.M. Evaluation of the Magnetoencephalography Dipole Counting Method for Hemispheric Language Dominance In Patients With Focal Epilepsy. In Preparation

Tanaka, N., von Pechmann, D.M., Wakeman, D. G., Liu, H., Madsen, J. R., Bourgeois, B. F., Cole, A. J., Stufflebeam, S. M. Ictal magnetoencephalographic study in patients with intractable epilepsy using dynamic statistical parametric mapping (dSPM). In Preparation.


Presentations

Murray, M.M., Higgins, B.A., Foxe, D.M., Knuth, K.H., Javitt, D.C., Schroeder, C.E. and Foxe, J.J. Multisensory audio-somatosensory neural response interactions in early cortical processing: a high-density electrical mapping and behavioral study in humans. 2nd annual meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF), New York, 2000.

Foxe, J.J., Molholm, S., Murray, M.M., Lewkowicz, D., Javitt, D.C., Martinez, A., Foxe, D.M., and Ritter, W. The spatio-temporal dynamics of an auditory driven visual illusion: A high-density electrical mapping study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, 2002.

Wylie, G.R., Foxe, D.M., and Foxe, J.J. Anticipatory Deployment of attention between sensory modalities. 3rd annual meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF), Geneva, Switzerland, 2002.

Foxe, D.M., Foxe J.J, Javitt, D.C., Michel, C.M., and Murray, M.M. Setting Boundaries: Brain Dynamics of Modal and Amodal Completion. 10th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, 2003.

Foxe, D.M., Knake, S., Carr, V.A., Shiraishi, H., Hara, K., Grant, P.E., Donner, E., Schomer, D.L., Bromfield, E.B., Bourgeois, B.F., Cole, A.J., Stufflebeam, S.M., Halgren, E. Hemispheric language dominance in patients with focal epilepsies: a prospective MEG study. Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, Boston, 2003.

Hara, K., Knake, S., Shiraishi, H., Carr, V.A., Foxe, D.M., Grant, P.E., Halgren, E., Stufflebeam, S.M. Differences in auditory evoked fields as a lateralizing finding in temporal lobe epilepsy – A prospective MEG study. 57th Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, Boston, 2003.

Shiraishi, H., Knake, S., Carr, V.A., Foxe, D.M., Hara, K., Grant, P.E., Halgren, E., Stufflebeam, S.M. Dynamic Statistical Parametric Mapping (dSPM) for Ictal Discharges and Subclinical Discharges in MEG Analysis for Epileptic Patients. 57th Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, Boston, 2003.

Carr, V.A., Knake, S., Shiraishi, H., Foxe, D.M., Hara, K., Grant, P.E., Schomer, D.L., Bourgeois, B.F., Halgren, E., Stufflebeam, S.M. Unilateral giant somatosensory evoked magnetic fields as a lateralizing sign in focal epilepsy. 57th Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, Boston, 2003.

von Pechmann, D.M., Ishitobi-Hayashi, M., Wakeman, D.G., Knake, S., Grant, P.E., Dworetzky, B.A., Bromfield, E.B., Bourgeois, B.F., Cole, A.J., Stufflebeam, S.M. Hemispheric Language Dominance with MEG in Focal Epilepsy Patients as a Possible Screening Method for The Intracarotid Amobarbital Procedure.
15th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Vancouver, Canada. 2006