Research

The potential for fMRI & MEG in clinical and cognitive research neuroscience is enormous and growing every year. These techniques are capable of generating maps of neuronal activity in the human brain in both normal and diseased states. Areas of ‘activation’ are predominantly within the neurons of the cortical grey matter. At CUBRIC, a range of MRI techniques are used including characterizing the integrity and connectivity of white matter:

• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
• High quality anatomical imaging
• Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS)
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
• Quantitative Relaxometry
• Magnetization Transer Imaging

Current projects in CUBRIC include:

Sumner, P. & Singh, K. “See it, grab it: Control of automatic sensorimotor behaviour in health and disease”

Wise, R. & Hall, J. “Imaging neural responses to pain-related stimuli in patients with chronic non malignant pain before and after
a pain management programme”

Jones, D. "Imaging the Maternal Brain Following Pregnancy" 

Lawrence, N. "Neural Correlates of Problem Gambling: A combined MEG and fMRI Investigation"

Murphy, K. "Investigating the effects of physiology and vascular reactivity on fMRI data - pilot study"

Klemen, J. "Establishing anatomical connectivity of multisensory perception and attentional control using diffusion tensor imaging'

Hamandi, K. "Structural And Functional Imaging Of Brain Acivity In Epilepsy"

Wise, R. "An MRI and EEG study of the neurocognitive effects of cafeine and L-theanine"

Muthukumaraswamy, S. " MEG Correlates of peripersonal space representation"

Perry, G. "An exploration of MEG adaptation to faces and objects"