Neuroimaging and Informatics Group
- Structural MRI of the human brain
The Neuroimaging and Informatics Group includes researchers from the Howard Florey Institute, the Centre for Neuroscience (University of Melbourne) and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (University of Melbourne) working across five main research areas:
- Interoception;
- MR Methods;
- Neurological Disorders Research;
- Neuroinformatics Research; and
- Animal MR Research.
These areas each have teams of scientists, clinicians, post-graduate research students and research assistants together with external collaborators, undertaking neuroimaging and neuroinformatics research into basic neuroscience questions and applications in clinical neurology and psychiatry.
The Animal Magnetic Resonance Facility is available for external researchers to use in a collaborative or service arrangement.
Research projects include:
- PET activation studies of primal physiological processes such as respiration and thermoregulation in humans;
- Modelling the cortical folding in brain development using MR imaging of fetal brains
- Impact of preterm birth on hippocampal structure utilizing volumetric MRI technique
- Analysis of acute optic neuritis using diffusion analysis
- Automated analysis of high resolution MR images
- Modeling and analysis of the BOLD effect in functional MR imaging
- Imaging the urge to cough
- Longitudinal functional MRI studies of cognitive decline in Huntington’s disease patients