Colin Buchanan

Research Associate

Psychology
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Tel: 0131 650 3453
Email: Colin.Buchanan@ed.ac.uk

Street: Room F1, Psychology Building
City: 7 George Square, Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9JZ

Biography

Background

Colin is based in the Lothian Birth Cohorts team within the Psychology Department. He works with Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 and UK Biobank neuroimaging data as part of a 5-year NIH grant to investigate the brain's structural connectivity in relation to cognitive function, health and genes.

Research

Research summary

Colin's field of work is connectomics, the study of the connectome, which seeks to map the connections of the brain as a network. Using imaging data obtained from diffusion MRI and whole-brain tractography, connectome methods are used to map the collective wiring of many billions of axonal nerve fibres across the brain. The connectome approach provides tools to ask neuroscientific questions concerned with healthy and pathological brain organisation. This approach may also provide evidence on how cerebral white matter underlies cognitive function.

Publications

Predicting sex, age, general cognition and mental health with machine learning on brain structural connectomes (21 pages) 1 Apr 2023 In: Human Brain Mapping, vol. 44, pp. 1913-1933
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26182
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
General and specific patterns of cortical gene expression as substrates of complex cognitive functioning Aug 2022 In: Nature Neuroscience
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Submitted)
White matter, cognition and psychotic-like experiences in UK Biobank (10 pages) 17 Nov 2021 In: Psychological Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721004244
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Comparison of structural MRI brain measures between 1.5 and 3T: Data from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 15 Aug 2021 In: Human Brain Mapping, pp. 3905-3921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25473
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Three major dimensions of human brain cortical ageing in relation to cognitive decline across the eighth decade of life (12 pages) 4 Jan 2021 In: Molecular Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-00975-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)

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This article was published on 23 Apr, 2024