Dr Mark Bastin
Reader
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Edinburgh Imaging
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 537 2511
- Email: Mark.Bastin@ed.ac.uk
Research summary
My research uses diffusion and structural MRI to investigate the connectivity of cerebral white matter, the brain’s wiring, and its relationship to cognitive ability in both health and disease.
Current areas of interest include normal ageing, preterm birth, motor neurone disease, MS, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Collaborations stretch across the University and include psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, neonatologist and informaticians.
Research aims and areas of interest
My primary research interest is in the development of MRI acquisition methods and image processing techniques and their application to the study of white matter in the brain. Specific areas of interest include:
- Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and tractography
- Magnetization transfer magnetic resonance imaging
- Quantitative spin-lattice relaxation (T1) measurement
- Application to normal ageing, preterm birth, brain tumours, MND, MS, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Affiliated research centres
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Polygenic architecture of human neuroanatomical diversity
In:
Cerebral Cortex
Contribution to journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Brain peak width of skeletonised mean diffusivity (PSMD) and cognitive function in later life
In:
Frontiers in psychiatry, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00524
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Spatial Gradient of Microstructural Changes in Normal-Appearing White Matter in Tracts Affected by White Matter Hyperintensities in Older Age
In:
Frontiers in Neurology, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2019.00784
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Sleep and brain morphological changes in the eighth decade of life
In:
Sleep medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2019.07.015
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Reaction time variability and brain white matter integrity
In:
Neuropsychology, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 642-657
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000483
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)