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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Are neuropsychiatric symptoms a marker of small vessel disease progression in older adults? Evidence from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936
In:
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 38
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5855
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Predicting sex, age, general cognition and mental health with machine learning on brain structural connectomes
(21 pages)
In:
Human Brain Mapping, vol. n/a
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26182
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Breast milk exposure is associated with cortical maturation in preterm infants
In:
Annals of Neurology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26559
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Assessment of perivascular space filtering methods using a three-dimensional computational model
In:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 93, pp. 33-51
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2022.07.016
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Longitudinal microstructural MRI markers of demyelination and neurodegeneration in early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: Magnetisation transfer, water diffusion and g-ratio
In:
NeuroImage: Clinical, vol. 36, pp. 103228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103228
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)