Title:

Birmingham-Nottingham multimodal neuroimaging alliance: Understanding spatio-temporal brain network dynamics

Project Outcomes:

Neuroimaging research has highlighted the critical importance of brain network dynamics in supporting human brain function.

However, no single technique can optimally capture the complex processes by which neuronal activity gives rise to human behaviour. This project combined  biomedical imaging expertise and techniques, using three neuroimaging methods:

• functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
• electroencephalography (EEG)
• magnetoencephalography (MEG).

This project has enhanced neuro-scientific understanding of brain network function in healthy brains and it is hoped this can be used to investigate possible differences in brain function in disease in the future.

Four joint papers have been published from this work, three in Neuroimage and one in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. Four grant applications have been submitted: including a successful Leverhulme grant (£265k). Funding was also obtained from Phillips for a for joint Birmingham-Nottingham workshop on Multimodal Human Brain Imaging Workshop.

A further £40k has been allocated from the Strategic Collaboration Fund to Mullinger and Mayhew for a follow on project.