Biosketch
I received my Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 2008, with a focus on machine learning, neuroimaging, and neuroscience. From 2009 to 2012, I completed my postdoctoral training on cognitive neuroscience of memory at UC San Diego. From 2012 to 2014, I worked as an associate research scientist in the Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases at UC San Francisco. I joined the Park Aging Mind Laboratory as a Research Scientist since early 2014.
Selected Publications
Song, Z., McDonough, I., Liu, P., Lu, H., Park, D.C. (2016) Cortical Amyloid Burden and Age Moderate Hippocampal Activity in Cognitively-Normal Adults. NeuroImage:Clinical. Available online.
Lam, F., Liu, D., Song, Z., Schuff, N., & Liang, Z.P. (2016). A fast algorithm for rank and edge constrained denoising of magnitude diffusion-weighted images. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 75(1), 433-40.
Song, Z., Insel, P., Buckley, S., Yohannes, S., Mezher, A., Simson, A., Wilkins, S., Tosun, D., Mueller, S., Kramer, J., Miller, B., & Weiner, M. (2015). Brain amyloid-β burden is associated with disruption of intrinsic functional connectivity within the medial temporal lobe in cognitively normal elderly. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 3240-47.
Song, Z., Jeneson, A., & Squire, L.R. (2011). Medial temporal lobe function and recognition memory: A novel approach to separating the contribution of recollection and familiarity. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(44), 16026-32.
Song, Z., Wixted, J.T., Smith, C.N., & Squire, L.R. (2011). Different nonlinear functions in hippocampus and perirhinal cortex relating functional MRI activity to memory strength. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(14), 5783-8.
Song, Z., Wixted, J.T., Hopkins, R.O., & Squire, L.R. (2011). Impaired capacity for familiarity after hippocampal damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(23),9655-60.
Selected Presentations
Song, Z., & Park, D.C., Aberrant fMRI activity in the medial temporal lobe is related to cortical amyloid-beta deposition in cognitively normal elderly. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Washington D.C., 2014.
Song, Z., Lam, F., Pannetier, N., Buckley, S., Ezekiel, F., Mueller, S., Liang, Z-P., & Weiner, M.W. (2013). In-vivo visualization and segmentation of perforant path in the human brain with high angular resolution diffusion imaging. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, U.S.A.
Song, Z., Buckley, S., Yohannes, S., Simonson, A., Truran, D., Mueller, S., & Weiner, M.W. (2013). Effects of early Alzheimer’s Diseases (AD) on structure and functional connectivity of the hippocampus in cognitive normal elderly. Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. Boston, U.S.A
