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Dr Gordon Waiter
PhD, CPhys, FInstP, CSci, FIPEM
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Biography
Dr. Waiter graduated from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, in 1989 with a BSc (Hons) in Physical Sciences majoring in Physics. He then moved to Dundee University, Department of Medical Physics as Research Assistant, to develop MR imaging test objects. He returned to Aberdeen in 1991, this time to the University of Aberdeen to undertake a PhD in Medical Physics, under the supervision of Dr. M. Foster
He joined the staff of Aberdeen University in 1996 as a research fellow working in collaboration with the university Department of BioMedical Physics and NHS Department of Cardiology to develop image analysis methods for the detection of hibernating myocardium.
In 2001 Dr Waiter joined the School of Psychology to help initiate functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on a new 1.5T research dedicated scanner at the University of Aberdeen.
In 2004 he joined the Department of Radiology (now part of the Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre) to continue the development of functional magnetic resonance imaging in Aberdeen. His work has included paradigm design, data analysis, data acquisition, quality control and image analysis.
Dr Waiter was appointed Reader in 2021.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Director, Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre
Associate Director, Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science
Honorary Clinical Scientist and MR Safety Expert, NHS Grampian
Member, North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2
- External Memberships
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Aberdeen Lead for SINAPSE (www.sinapse.ac.uk)
Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)
Chartered Physicist (CPhys)
Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (FIPEM)
Chartered Scientist (CSci)
Latest Publications
Structural brain correlates of childhood trauma with replication across two large, independent community-based samples
European Psychiatry, vol. 66, no. 1, e19Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStructural and functional brain changes in acute Takotsubo Syndrome
JACC. Heart failureContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2022.11.001
Age-associated sex and asymmetry differentiation in hemispheric and lobar cortical ribbon complexity across adulthood: A UK BioBank Imaging Study
Human Brain Mapping, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 49-65Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26076
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/19942/2/Nazlee_etal_HBM_Age_Associated_Sex_VoR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Francis William Smith, MD, FRCR, FRCS, FRCP, FFSEM (UK) (1943-2022)
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 324-325Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.28552
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Cognition and brain iron deposition in whole grey matter regions and hippocampal subfields
European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 6039-6054Contributions to Journals: Articles
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Research Overview
Dr. Gordon Waiter's main areas of interest are in brain plasticity and cognition with a focus on the mechanisms of age-related cognitive decline and in particular the role of inflammation, both chronic and acute, and immunosenescence in brain ageing.
The pathology that leads to dementia begins many decades before symptoms appear. It is hoped that an improved understanding of the age-related changes in brain health and cognition, and the impact of cardiometabolic and inflammation factors, will have an impact on public health through targets for intervention, earlier diagnosis, therapy monitoring and drug development. It will bring a new understanding of common neurodegenerative diseases at a personalised level, allowing individualised treatment and new ways to diagnose the brain diseases that lead to dementia.
Dr. Waiter has developed a multisystem approach based on a combination of novel and established computational neuroimaging, biochemistry, and statistical modelling methods and is applying them to disorders reporting common symptoms like cognitive decline, brain fog and Long COVID.
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Programmes
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, January start
Teaching Responsibilities
Dr Waiter is Programme Co-ordinator for the MSc in Medical Imaging
Dr Waiter is the course co-ordinator for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging deeper study (BP5503) of the BioMedical Physics/Medical Imaging MSc, where he teaches fMRI theory and image analysis techniques as well as cardaic MR imaging. He also teaches Statistical Paramagnetic Mapping (SPM) on the Medical Image Processing and Analysis deeper study (BP5505).
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Structural brain correlates of childhood trauma with replication across two large, independent community-based samples
European Psychiatry, vol. 66, no. 1, e19Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStructural and functional brain changes in acute Takotsubo Syndrome
JACC. Heart failureContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2022.11.001
Age-associated sex and asymmetry differentiation in hemispheric and lobar cortical ribbon complexity across adulthood: A UK BioBank Imaging Study
Human Brain Mapping, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 49-65Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26076
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/19942/2/Nazlee_etal_HBM_Age_Associated_Sex_VoR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Francis William Smith, MD, FRCR, FRCS, FRCP, FFSEM (UK) (1943-2022)
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 324-325Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.28552
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Cognition and brain iron deposition in whole grey matter regions and hippocampal subfields
European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 6039-6054Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBrain mapping inflammatory arthritis related fatigue in the pursuit of novel therapeutics
The Lancet RheumatologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesInvestigation of the Inter- and Intrascanner Reproducibility and Repeatability of Radiomics Features in T1-Weighted Brain MRI
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 1559-1568Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLocal CpG density affects the trajectory and variance of age-associated DNA methylation changes
Genome Biology, vol. 23, no. 1, 216Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssociations of negative affective biases and depressive symptoms in a community-based sample
Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-10Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Meta-Analytic Investigation of Grey Matter Differences in Anorexia Nervosa and Autism Spectrum Disorder
European Eating Disorders Review, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 560-579Contributions to Journals: Articles