Professor Federico Turkheimer PhD

Biography

The aim of my work is to develop in-vivo imaging markers of brain function. My group uses Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to model brain physiology in health and disease. Presently we are focused on brain immunity and its’ relationship with the peripheral immune system, brain myelination and glymphatic function. We are also interested in constructing precise models of drug pharmaco-kinetic action and pharmacodynamics.

Federico Turkheimer is Theme Co-Lead for Neuroimaging at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.

Please see my Research Staff Profile for more detail.

Find out more about my research:

• Molecular Neuroimaging
• Molecular Neuroimaging YouTube

Key Publications:

• Turkheimer et al., 2015. The methodology of TSPO imaging with positron emission tomography. Biochem Soc Trans. 
• Veronese et al., 2015. Quantification of [(11)C]PIB PET for imaging myelin in the human brain: a test-retest reproducibility study in high-resolution research tomography. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 
• Dipasquale et al., 2019. Receptor-Enriched Analysis of functional connectivity by targets (REACT): A novel, multimodal analytical approach informed by PET to study the pharmacodynamic response of the brain under MDMA. Neuroimage. 

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Key collaborators:

• Dr Mattia Veronese, King's College London
• Dr Diana Cash, King's College London
• Professor Carmine Pariante, King's College London
• Professor Oliver Howes, King's College London