Research Synopsis
Functional Neuroimaging Research

My lab is focused on optimizing the imaging and dataanalysis processing pipelines of functional neuroimaging studies of the brain activity associated with human cognition, disease and behaviour. My present academic research focus is on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and associated structural MRI techniques in the middle and older age ranges most relevant as control groups for clinical studies. These groups, particularly the middle-aged range, have been little studied uasing clinically relevant neurobehavioural tasks. The hypothesis guiding this work is that standard default image acquisition and processing pipelines are not optimal, and that as a result new insights into human brain function in normals and disease are being obscured by poor and/or limited pipeline choices.