PhD, CPhys, FInstP, CSci, FIPEM
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- About
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- Email Address
- g.waiter@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438356
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Personal Assistant- Personal Assistant
- Mrs Dawn Younie
- Personal Assistant Email Address
- d.younie@abdn.ac.uk
- Personal Assistant Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438365
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
Characterizing the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Action of Exercise and Cognitive–Behavioral Interventions for Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue: a magnetic resonance imaging brain study
Arthritis & RheumatologyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/art.42755
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Disrupted Limbic-Prefrontal Effective Connectivity in Response to Fearful Faces in Lifetime Depression
Journal of Affective DisordersContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.18.23292846
Preface: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48593-0
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The cerebellum plays more than one role in the dysregulation of appetite: Review of structural evidence from typical and eating disorder populations
Brain and Behavior, vol. 13, no. 2, e3286Contributions to Journals: Review articlesPhantom study investigating the repeatability of radiomic features with alteration of image acquisition parameters in magnetic resonance imaging
Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation SciencesContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmir.2023.10.003
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- Research
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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.
- Teaching
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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).
- Publications
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Spectral Clustering Based on Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging and its Relationship with Major Depressive Disorder and Cognitive Ability
European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 6281-6303Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEarly life predictors of late life cerebral small vessel disease in four prospective cohort studies
Brain, vol. 144, no. 12, pp. 3769–3778Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIdentification of plasma proteins relating to brain neurodegeneration and vascular pathology in cognitively normal individuals
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, vol. 13, no. 1, e12240Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA cross-cohort study: sexual dimorphism in the relationship between brain complexity & intelligence
Organization for Human Brain Mapping meetingContributions to Conferences: AbstractsMicrostructural differences in white matter tracts across middle to late adulthood: a diffusion MRI study on 7167 UK Biobank participants
Neurobiology of Aging, vol. 98, pp. 160-172Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStructural brain correlates of serum and epigenetic markers of inflammation in major depressive disorder
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, vol. 92, pp. 39-48Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCohort profile for the STratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally (STRADL) study: A depression-focused investigation of Generation Scotland, using detailed clinical, cognitive, and neuroimaging assessments
Wellcome open research, vol. 4, 185Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe impact of brain iron accumulation on cognition: A systematic review
PloS ONE, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. e0240697Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBlunted medial prefrontal cortico-limbic reward-related effective connectivity and depression
Brain, vol. 143, no. 6, pp. 1946-1956Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa106
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14354/2/awaa106.pdf
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Sex differences in the association of photoperiod with hippocampal subfield volumes in older adults: A crosssectional study in the UK Biobank cohort
Brain and Behavior, vol. 10, no. 6, 01593Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1593
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14549/1/Majrashi_etal_brb3_sex_differences_VOR.pdf
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