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School of Neuroscience

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Human imaging

Changes in brain structure and function are associated with conditions such as epilepsy, stroke and psychosis. Neuroscientists and clinicians want to understand what is happening in these, and other, psychiatric and neurological disorders. Using imaging, it's possible to see structural changes caused by disease processes and to investigate changes in brain function (in some cases, in real-time). We use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to understand the differences between health and disease or dysfunction.

Find out more about our human imaging facilities and opportunities for future collaborations.

Our key questions:

What are the mechanisms underlying brain disorders?
How can we translate our pre-clinical developments into improved outcomes for patients in the clinic?
How can neuroimaging improve the diagnosis and treatment of people with psychiatric and neurological diseases?

Click people profiles to discover their research:

Professor Gareth Barker

Professor of Magnetic Resonance Physics
Dr Vincent Giampietro

Reader in Neuroscience Education
Professor Peter Goadsby

Director of NIHR King’s Clinical Research Facility & Professor of Medicine
Dr Vasileia Kotoula

Lecturer in Neuroscience and Psychology
Dr Laura Mantoan Ritter

Consultant Neurologist and Adjunct Reader
Professor Mitul Mehta

Director, Centre for Innovative Therapeutics
Dr Owen O'Daly

Senior Lecturer
Dr Yannis Paloyelis

Reader in Neuroscience and Psychology
Dr Sonja Pyott

Senior Lecturer
Dr Eugenii Rabiner

Reader in Molecular Neuroimaging
Dr Divyangana Rakesh

Lecturer in Neuroscience and Psychology
Professor Mark Richardson

Head of School (Neuroscience)
Dr Richard Rosch

Clinical Lecturer
Dr Ivana Rosenzweig

Clinical Reader in the Neuroscience of Sleep
Dr Marc-David Ruepp

Reader in RNA Biology and Molecular Neurodegeneration
Dr James Stone

Clinical Senior Lecturer
Professor Federico Turkheimer

Professor in Neuroimaging (Analysis & Statistics)
Professor Anthony Vernon

Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology
Dr Toby Wise

Senior Research Fellow
Dr Fernando Zelaya

Reader in Physiological Neuroimaging

Brain modelling and imaging

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4th High Performance Neuroimaging Meeting

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The High-Performance Neuroimaging Meeting is a focused gathering of leading scientists, engineers,…