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Department
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Neurology
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Hospital Title
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Associate in Medicine
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Academic Title
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Associate Professor of Neurology
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Phone
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617-355-6388
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617-730-0282
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Email
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Michael Rivkin
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300 Longwood Avenue
Fegan-11
Boston MA 02115
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Michael Rivkin's studies of learning disabilities have addressed issues of timing in affected children and matched controls. In his research he has:- Used functional MRI in studies of children with learning disabilities and matched controls to localize timing functions and impairments thereof within the cerebrum.
- Demonsted that the supplementary motor area and right superior temporal gyrus participate in a network needed for internally timed paced finger tapping in children.
- Delineated deficits in information processing in children with developmental dyslexia.
- Delineated norms for a working memory task for children 8-12 years of age.
- Successfully applied diffusion tensor imaging and dual echo techniques to the study of postnatal brain development in premature infants between 28 weeks' gestation and term.
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Michael Rivkin received his MD degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Rainbow Babies' and Children's Hospital and a second residency in pediatric neurology at New England Medical Center. He subsequently completed a fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston.
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- Rivkin MJ. Opening the window into brain development in children more widely with magnetic resonance imaging. Pediatrics 2003; 111: 1432-1433.
- Rivkin MJ, Vajapeyam S, Hutton C, Weiler ML, Hall EK, Wolraich DA, Yoo SS, Mulkern RV, Forbes PW, Wolff PH, Waber DP. A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of paced finger tapping in children. Pediatric Neurology 2003; 28: 89-95.
- Robertson RL, Ben-Sira L, Barnes PD, Mulkern RV, Robson CD, Maier SE, Rivkin MJ, du Plessis A. MR line-scan diffusion-weighted imaging of term neonates with perinatal brain ischemia. American Journal of Neuroradiology 1999; 20: 1658-1670.
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