Teams
The Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging includes all the staff at the Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL) and the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research (MPC). Together, these form the UCL Department of Imaging Neuroscience.
In addition, we support the neuroimaging research programmes of Principal Investigators employed at other UCL departments and institutes.
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Our teams are broken into two areas:
Research teams
Each brain function is underpinned by complex neural systems with many interconnecting brain regions. We tackle this complexity with highly specialised research teams that focus on understanding the neural system associated with a particular type of function (e.g. visual perception or emotion) and how this system is affected in neurological, psychiatric or developmental disorders.
For example, researchers specialising in motor functions will primarily study patients with neurological conditions that affect movement (e.g. Stroke and Parkinson’s disease) whereas those specialising in emotion will primarily study patients with psychiatric conditions (e.g. depression and anxiety).
Other research teams specialise in the early detection and phenotyping of specific clinical disorders (e.g. Parkinson’s disease), adaptation to sensory or motor loss (e.g. deafness or amputation), or the methodologies required to investigate these conditions.
Support teams
The support teams are involved in managing the Centre, performing scanning, managing building infrastructure, engaging the public with research at the Centre and delivering IT support and data handling.