Novel brain mapping and modulations

Neuroimaging uses medical imaging technologies to study the structure and function of the brain for medicine, neuroscience and psychology. We study​:

• Anatomy, particularly exploiting increased spatial resolution at 7T to investigate small structure of and the versatile contrast of MRI to study changes in tissue properties.

• Brain function using fMRI and the BOLD effect (which depends on the changes in blood flow oxygenation) and electrical activity monitored by MEG (Magnetoencephalography) and EEG (Electroencephalography).
• Physiology in particular blood flow and oxygenation, both investigate the origins of the heamodynamic response to activation (underpinning fMRI) and to study change in disease such as a stroke or cancer.
• Metaolism and biochemistry using magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

We use computational neuroimaging to link these measures together to get new insights into how the brain works.