Arthur W. Toga | |
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| Occupation(s) | Director of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) and the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute |
| Known for | Developed imaging techniques and large-scale, three-dimensional brain atlases to study Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurological disorders |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst Saint Louis University |
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| Sub-discipline | Neuroimaging,Informatics,and Brain mapping |
| Institutions | Washington University in St. Louis University of California,Los Angeles University of Southern California |
Arthur W. Toga is an American neuroscientist and the director of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) and the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute [1] within the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He is also the Ghada Irani Chair in Neuroscience and provost professor of ophthalmology,neurology,psychiatry and the behavioral sciences,radiology and engineering.
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- Academic career
- Education
- Professional career
- Research contributions
- Influence outside neuroscience
- Select publications
- Hostage Experience
- References
He founded LONI in 1983 at the Washington University School of Medicine’s McDonnell Center for Higher Brain Function,and has done pioneering work on brain mapping and atlasing,global data sharing and neuroimaging informatics.
Toga has been repeatedly named one of "the world’s most influential scientific minds" and a highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate. [2] [3]
