Our Facilities

EEG

The Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience is located in two places. Behavioral and psychophysiological studies are conducted on the third floor of the W. J. Brogden Psychology Building on the main campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here we have five contiguous rooms for subject testing and experimental control. These rooms contain extensive psychophysiological monitoring instrumentation, providing us with the capability of recording up to 128 channels of EEG, in addition to a wide range of skeletal-motor and autonomic responses, including specialized instrumentation for impedance cardiography.

Our Laboratory is also housed at the Waisman Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior in the Waisman Center, on the west side of the main UW campus, approximately 2 miles from the Psychology Building. Here we use the extensive imaging facilities of the Brain Imaging Lab, including a GE 3T MRI scanner; a mock MR scanner to acclimate subjects to the scanning environment; extensive ancillary instrumentation for the MR scanner, including fiber optic systems for visual stimulus presentation, eye tracking and psychophysiological recording during MR scanning; a human PET scanner; a small bore microPET scanner for non-human primate studies; a 256 channel EEG facility; transcranial magnetic stimulation equipment; a tandem accelerator for the production of PET radiotracers; and extensive computing facilities for image post-processing and visualization. The Brain Imaging Lab also has offices and general work areas for image analysis.

Each of these facilities has a full-time computer systems administrator. A Lab Manager resides in each location and coordinates activities in each of these facilities. Graduate students and post-doctoral trainees have offices in either of these locations and often work in both.