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Dr Simon R. Cox
Sean Denham
Dr David Alexander Dickie
Structural brain ageing
White matter disease
Cognitive ageing
Stroke
Image Analysis
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias
Miss Emma Elliott
Dr Javier Escudero
In my research, I create and apply data analysis tools to extract information from biomedical signals and clinical time series.
My main aim is to reveal the subtle changes that major diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's and epilepsy) cause in the brain activity.
In collaboration with researchers at Edinburgh, across the UK and overseas, I am currently working in the processing and analysis of biomedical signals, particularly human brain activity. By developing and applying signal processing methods, I aim at increasing our understanding of how several brain conditions progress. Of particular interest is the evaluation of brain functional connectivity in both neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases to understand how they affect the way in which different brain regions interact with each other. I am also interested in the interplay between structure and function in the brain and in the application of pattern recognition techniques to highly-dimensional clinical datasets to support decision making. Finally, I also work in the development of non-invasive methods for rehabilitation purposes, being either the dexterous controls prostheses for amputees or brain-computer interfaces.
For additional information, please see: http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/jescuder
Miss Charlene Hamid
Dr Dominic Job
I am interested in all forms of brain imaging, primarily structural MRI, and currently working on multicentre, normative brain imaging and stroke.
Mr Philipp Loske
Extraction of morphological networks based on structural MRI, analysing network measures that can help in providing neuroimaging makers for dementia.
Dr William McGeown
My research is mainly focused on investigating the cognitive and neural correlates of a range of neuropsychiatric symptoms (e.g., delusions, sleep disorder, depression, apathy).
I am interested in improving the diagnosis/detection of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia (especially in the earliest stages) through customised assessment methods or through the use of multivariate markers. Variants of these markers could also be used to stratify patients or as outcome measures for clinical drug trials. Relatedly, I have interests in developing methods to speed drug development.
I have projects underway to develop serum blood-based biomarkers for the dementias (in combination with other methods), to investigate the diagnostic utility of customised neuropsychological tests (and analysis methods), and in the near future hope to begin a project that will utilise electrophysiological methods.
I have an additional research line that focuses on understanding the neural bases of hypnosis and suggestibility. By targeting individual differences suggestion can be used to study elements of psychosis, changes in agency, and other interesting psychological and behavioural phenomena.
Within my research I use structural magnetic resonance imaging techniques (voxel-based morphometry and cortical thickness assessment), functional magnetic resonance imaging (brain activity and connectivity analyses), electrophysiological methods, and neuropsychological assessment.
