CCBS postgraduate students

An automatically generated listing of postgraduate students in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences. (NB: this list is not comprehensive).

 

NameThesis titleEmailPhone number
Dr Verónica Cabreira veronica.cabreira@ed.ac.uk 
Laoise CasserlyInvestigating how peripheral inflammation can lead to neuroinflammation in the absence of blood-brain barrier breakdown in Alzheimer's diseaselaoise.casserly@ed.ac.uk 
Salome ChibwanaThe interplay between perinatal bonding, maternal mental health, social support, and adversity in Malawi: a mixed methods analysisS. Chibwana@sms.ed.ac.uk 
Emma DumbleInvestigating mechanisms by which oligodendrocyte precursor cells govern the size of retinal ganglion cells in the Zebrafish visual systemEmma.Dumble@ed.ac.uk 
Dr Elizabeth ElliottInvestigating the clinicopathological correlates amongst differing clinical phenotypes of MNDe.elliott@ed.ac.uk 
Poppy Zenzi GrimesCharacterising the nature of mental health trajectories across adolescent development through the integration of genomic, biomarkers, neuroimaging and environmental risk factorsp.grimes@ed.ac.uk 
Áine HeffernanDefining the functional consequence of LRRK2 dysregulation in astrocytesaine.heffernan@ed.ac.uk 
Benjamin JinDevelopment of a machine learning method to automatically quantify calcified intracranial atheroma on CT imaging and assess risk of future neurovascular disease in a national datasetb.jin@ed.ac.uk 
Jade LucasAssessing the molecular mechanisms that confer resilience in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosisjade.lucas@ed.ac.uk 
Abby O'SullivanCombinatorial Drug Screening for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosisa.osullivan@ed.ac.uk 
Martha PollardFamily and staff carer experiences of and perspectives on freedom and restriction in pandemic-affected dementia care and beyond: insights for human rights accountability and liberationM.C.Pollard@ed.ac.uk 
Wen Chyi QuahStudying the Synaptic Architecture of the Human Brain in Schizophreniawenchyi.quah@ed.ac.uk 
Keelin RidgeDetermining cerebral small vessel function and flow in small vessel diseaseKeelin.Ridge@ed.ac.uk 
Bastien Rioux MD, MSc, FRCPCThe role of interferons in the risk of stroke and dementiabastien.rioux@ed.ac.uk 
Laura SherlockEnabling large simple trials for dementia preventionl.sherlock@ed.ac.uk 
Holly E. A. SutherlandReducing health inequalities for autistic people by understanding interactional rapport.h.e.a.sutherland@sms.ed.ac.uk 
Animesh Talukder - PhD Student - Psychiatric PharmacoepidemiologyPharmacoepidemiology of psychiatric ilnesses among British and Finnish children and adolescents attending Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)Animesh.Talukder@ed.ac.uk 
Gladi Thng J.G.Thng@sms.ed.ac.uk 
Shipei Wang s.wang-204@sms.ed.ac.uk 
Sydni Weissgold S.A.Weissgold@sms.ed.ac.uk 
Emma WilsonDeveloping a meta-research framework to evaluate evidence from animal models of neurodevelopmental conditionsemma.wilson@ed.ac.uk