Other (brain imaging) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Functional brain imaging methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have already revolutionized how we can study the processes and functioning of the healthy human brain and are making an increasing impact on our understanding on what goes wrong in disease of the brain. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Martin

Neurotransmitters, brain blood flow and functional brain imaging signals.r

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

The function of modulatory neurotransmitter systems such as serotonin, dopamine or acetylcholine are implicated in a wide range of brain diseases and are targeted by a wide range of therapeutic drugs. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Martin

Brunel University London Life Sciences

Funding for the Executive Dean’s PhD Studentship. A Comprehensive Characterisation of Mentally-Disordered Offenders and Prediction of Treatment Outcomes

The team of Prof Veena Kumari, Dr Ignazio Puzzo and Dr Rachael Bennetts at Brunel University London is offering a fully funded PhD studentship to comprehensively… Read more

Supervisor: Prof V Kumari

10 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

Ariel University Department of Behavioral Sciences & Psychology

Join Our Team: Fully Funded 4-Year PhD Position in Cognitive and Social Neuroscience

We are recruiting a 4-year PhD student (fully funded) focusing on cognitive and social neuroscience. The project focuses on the exploration of interpersonal synchrony, aiming to understand the mechanism of governing self and coordinating with others. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Gvirts

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Assessing the hemodynamic signal sources of fMRI based spontaneous connectivity maps and how neuronal plasticity such as increased spatial working memory can change these networks

Many psychiatric (e.g. schizophrenia) and neurological diseases are characterised by a disturbance of the connections between different parts of the brain that need to communicate with one another. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Simultaneous measures of brain and blood oxygenation: Revealing the function behind ‘functional’ brain mapping signals

Supervisors: Dr M Jones, Dr J Berwick

A technique called blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can determine levels of different activity in parts of the living human brain and how malfunctions can occur in disease. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

When do astrocytes contribute to the control of brain blood flow?

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

In order that the brain can function normally, it is essential that blood flow within the brain is well matched to neuronal metabolic demand. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Howarth

The neurophysiological basis of spontaneous fluctuations in neuroimaging signals

Supervisors: Dr M Jones, Dr J Berwick

A technique called blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can determine levels of different activity in parts of the living human brain and how malfunctions can occur in disease. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

King’s College London Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) scholarship - Can MIND networks derived from brain MRI shed fresh light on perinatal development?

Brain connectivity is central to neurodevelopment and later cognition and mental health (Morgan et al., BP:CNNI 2018). We recently proposed a new method to construct structural brain networks from MRI data, called Morphometric Inverse Divergence (MIND). Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Morgan

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

University of St Andrews School of Psychology

Mobile EEG: memory and attention in the wild.

What neural systems and processes support cognitive processes like attending and remembering? How do we use cognitive abilities like memory and attention… Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Donaldson

1 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

University of Nottingham School of Medicine, Division of Clinical Neuroscience

Last chance to apply

Measuring differences in neural inhibition in people with Tinnitus

About the project. Applications are invited for a 3-year fully funded PhD studentship to study the brain-based causes of tinnitus (the perception of an illusory sound). Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Sollini, Dr D Hoare, Dr M Sereda

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

The breakdown of neurovascular coupling in the diseased state specifically Epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease

Epilepsy is the most common neurological condition in the UK, affecting 1 – 2 % of the population. Epilepsies often involve only a small area of the brain - the epileptic focus – and the abnormal activity can propagate out from there. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Understanding neurovascular coupling and its importance in the interpretation of modern neuroimaging techniques

During the past two decades, blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become the scientific technique of choice for investigating human brain function in the field of cognitive neuroscience. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Using pharmacological agents to investigate the mechanisms of the neuronal vascular coupling

The changes in cerebral blood flow, volume and oxygenation that accompany increases in neural activity form the basis of non-invasive neuroimaging techniques such as blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) which allow human brain mapping. Read more

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only