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Dr Gordon Waiter
Dr Gordon Waiter
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

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

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

  • Discrimination of haematoma and peri-haematoma regions of sub-acute intracerebral haemorrhage using Field-Cycling Imaging at field strengths below 0.2 T

    Senn, N., Mallikourti, V., Ross, J., Levi, R., Oren, N., Broche, L., Waiter, G., Macleod, M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Stroke Diagnosis from Field-Cycling Imaging using Machine Learning

    Ali-Gombe, A., Senn, N., Broche, L., Mallikourti, V., Ross, J., Waiter, G., Macleod, M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Epigenetic and Structural Brain Aging and Their Associations With Major Depressive Disorder

    Xu, E. Y., Green, C., McCartney, D. L., Han, L. K., Evans, K. L., Walker, R. M., Gadd, D. A., Steele, D., Waiter, G., Campbell, A., Lawrie, S. M., Cole, J. H., McIntosh, A. M., Shen, X., Whalley, H. C.
    Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 100577
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Takotsubo syndrome: cognitive behavioural therapy, physical training, and brain function recovery in the BREAKOUT trial

    Khan, H., Gamble, D., Rudd, A., Dospinescu, C., Creaney, C., Horgan, G., Holme, A. L., Wilson, H., Newby, D. E., Gray, S., Krishnadas, R., Williams, C., Waiter, G., Dawson, D.
    European Heart Journal, vol. 46, no. 40, pp. 4127-4129
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Transdiagnostic Alterations in White Matter Microstructure Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours in the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours Consortium

    ENIGMA Consortium, Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G.
    Translational Psychiatry
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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Research

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

Programmes

Courses

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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  • Mine and me: exploring the neural basis of object ownership

    Turk, D. J., Van Bussel, K., Waiter, G. D., Macrae, C. N.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 3657-3668
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Partial recovery from amnesia following bilateral surgical fornix transection is correlated with cortical plasticity

    Mazarakis, N. K., Summers, F., Murray, A. D., Waiter, G. D., Fouyas, I. P.
    British Journal of Neurosurgery, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 658-661
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Puddles, Parties, and Professors: Linking Word Categorization to Neural Patterns of Visuospatial Coding

    Quadflieg, S., Etzel, J. A., Gazzola, V., Keysers, C., Schubert, T. W., Waiter, G. D., Macrae, C. N.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 2636-2649
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Stereotype-based modulation of person perception

    Quadflieg, S., Flannigan, N., Waiter, G. D., Rossion, B., Wig, G. S., Turk, D. J., Macrae, C. N.
    Neuroimage, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 549-557
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Expected Value and Prediction Error Abnormalities in Depression and Schizophrenia

    Gradin, V. B., Anandh Kumar, P., Waiter, G. D., Ahearn, T. S., Stickle, C., Milders, A., Reid, I. C., Hall, J., Steele, J. D.
    Brain, vol. 134, no. 6, pp. 1751-1764
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Between- and within-scanner variability in the CaliBrain study n-back cognitive task

    Gradin, V., Gountouna, V., Waiter, G., Ahearn, T. S., Brennan, D., Condon, B., Marshall, I., McGonigle, D. J., Murray, A. D., Whalley, H., Cavanagh, J., Hadley, D., Lymer, K., McIntosh, A., Moorhead, T. W., Job, D., Wardlaw, J., Lawrie, S. M., Steele, J. D.
    Psychiatry Research, vol. 184, no. 2, pp. 86-95
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Response to Mental Stress Predicts Chronic Widespread Pain Onset: Results from the SPICE Study

    Jones, G., Waiter, G. D., Beasley, M., Gkazinou, C., Macfarlane, G.
    Arthritis & Rheumatism, vol. 62, no. S10, pp. 649
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • The neural mechanisms of reciprocal communication

    Nagy, E., Liotti, M., Brown, S., Waiter, G. D., Bromiley, A., Trevethan, C. T., Bardos, G.
    Brain Research, vol. 1353, pp. 159-167
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Established donepezil treatment modulates regional brain activation in early Alzheimer's disease

    McGeown, W. J., Shanks, M. F., Forbes-McKay, K. E., Waiter, G. D., Elrick, I., Venneri, M. G., Venneri, A.
    Current Alzheimer Research, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 415-427
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) reproducibility and variance components across visits and scanning sites with a finger tapping task

    Gountouna, V., Job, D. E., McIntosh, A. M., Moorhead, T. W. J., Lymer, G. K. L., Whalley, H. C., Hall, J., Waiter, G. D., Brennan, D., McGonigle, D. J., Ahearn, T. S., Cavanagh, J., Condon, B., Hadley, D. M., Marshall, I., Murray, A. D., Steele, D., Wardlaw, J. M., Lawrie, S. M.
    Neuroimage, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 552-560
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • ESMRMB 2009 Congress, Antalya, Turkey, 1–3 October: Abstracts, Friday: Reproducibility of hippocampus and amygdala volume measures using the FSL tool FIRST: a multi centre perspective

    Cameron, G. G., Ahearn, T., Salarirad, S., Waiter, G. D., Staff, R. T., Lymer, K., Gountouna, V., Lawrie, S., Brennan, D., Moorhead, T., Condon, B., Steele, D., Wardlaw, J., Murray, A. D.
    Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 157-158
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Exploring the Neural Correlates of Social Stereotyping

    Quadflieg, S., Turk, D. J., Waiter, G. D., Mitchell, J. P., Jenkins, A. C., Macrae, C. N.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1560-1570
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Approximate entropy fMRI differences associated with cognitive decline

    Roijals Miras, J., Staff, R., Waiter, G. D., Murray, A. D., Fox, H. C., Starr, J., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L.
    Neuroimage, vol. 47, no. Supplement 1, pp. S102
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Prospective multi-centre Voxel Based Morphometry study employing scanner specific segmentations: procedure development using CaliBrain structural MRI data

    Moorhead, T. W. J., Gountouna, V., Job, D. E., McIntosh, A. M., Romaniuk, L., Lymer, G. K. S., Whalley, H. C., Waiter, G. D., Brennan, D., Ahearn, T. S., Cavanagh, J., Condon, B., Steele, J. D., Wardlaw, J. M., Lawrie, S. M.
    BMC Medical Imaging, vol. 9, 8
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Frontal operculum temporal difference signals and social motor response learning

    Kumar, P., Waiter, G., Ahearn, T., Milders, M., Reid, I., Steele, J. D.
    Human Brain Mapping, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 1421-1430
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Abnormal temporal difference reward-learning signals in major depression

    Kumar, P., Waiter, G., Ahearn, T., Milders, M., Reid, I., Steele, J. D.
    Brain, vol. 131, no. 8, pp. 2084-2093
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) MRI: a novel technique for the assessment of myocardial ischemia as identified by nuclear imaging SPECT

    Egred, M., Waiter, G. D., Redpath, T. W., Semple, S. I. K., Al-Mohammad, A., Walton, S.
    European Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 581-586
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging in patients with dypiridamole induced ischaemia; a PET comparative study

    Egred, M., Waiter, G. D., Semple, S. I. K., Redpath, T. W., Al-Mohammad, A., Norton, M. Y., Metcalfe, M. J., Walton, S.
    International Journal of Cardiology, vol. 115, no. 1, pp. 36-41
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) MRI: A novel technique for the detection of myocardial ischemia

    Egred, M., Waiter, G. D., Al-Mohammad, A., Semple, S. I. K., Redpath, T. W., Walton, S.
    European Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 551-555
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging in patients with dypiridamole induced ischemia; a PET comparative study

    Egred, M., Waiter, G. D., Semple, S. I. K., Redpath, T. W., Al-Mohammad, A., Norton, M., Metcalfe, M. J., Walton, S.
    European Heart Journal, vol. 27, no. Suppl., pp. 415-416
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Blood oxygen level-dependent magnetic resonance imaging in patients with dypiridamole induced ischemia

    Egred, M., Waiter, G. D., Redpath, T. W., Semple, S., Al-Mahammad, A., Norton, M., Metcalfe, M., Walton, S.
    Heart, vol. 92
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Neural mechanisms of imitation and ‘mirror neuron’ functioning in autistic spectrum disorder

    Williams, J. H. G., Waiter, G. D., Gilchrist, A., Perrett, D. I., Murray, A. D., Whiten, A.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 610-621
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • An fMRI study of joint attention experience

    Williams, J. H. G., Waiter, G. D., Perra, O., Perrett, D. I., Whiten, A.
    Neuroimage, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 133-140
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Structural white matter deficits in high-functioning individuals with autistic spectrum disorder: a voxel-based investigation

    Waiter, G. D., Williams, J. H. G., Murray, A. D., Gilchrist, A., Perrett, D. I., Whiten, A.
    Neuroimage, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 455-461
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A voxel-based investigation of brain structure in male adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder

    Waiter, G. D., Williams, J. H. G., Murray, A. D., Gilchrist, A., Perrett, D. I., Whiten, A.
    Neuroimage, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 619-625
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Examination of the long term health impact of diving

    Ross, J. A. S., Macdiarmid, J. I., Murray, A. D., Waiter, G. D., Taylor, C. L., Watt, S. J., Osman, L. M., Crawford, J. R., Adie, W., Lawson, A.
    European Journal of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 24-25
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Detection of scarred and viable myocardium using a new magnetic resonance imaging technique: Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) MRI

    Egred, M., Al-Mohammad, A., Waiter, G. D., Redpath, T. W., Semple, S. I. K., Norton, M. Y., Welch, A., Walton, S.
    Heart, vol. 89, no. 7, pp. 738-744
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Novel T*2-weighted contrast preparation scheme for segmented k-space myocardial imaging

    Redpath, T. W., Semple, S. I. K., Waiter, G. D., Frisch, L., Norton, M. Y., Morris, D., Egred, M.
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 776-780
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) MRI for the detection of scarred and viable myocardium, a PET comparative study

    Egred, M., Al-Mohammad, A., Waiter, G. D., Redpath, T. W., Semple, S., Welch, A., Norton, M., Walton, S.
    European Heart Journal, vol. 23, pp. 305
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Regional myocardial wall thickening assessed at rest by ECG gated 18F-FDG positron emission tomography and by magnetic resonance imaging

    Waiter, G. D., Al-Mohammad, A., Norton, M. Y., Redpath, T. W., Welch, A., Walton, S.
    Heart, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 332-333
    Contributions to Journals: Letters

  • Dobutamine magnetic resonance imaging as a predictor of myocardial functional recovery after revascularisation

    Trent, R. J., Waiter, G. D., Hillis, G. S., McKiddie, F. I., Redpath, T. W., Walton, S.
    Heart, vol. 83, pp. 40-46
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Regional myocardial wall thickening assessed at rest by ECG gated F-18-FDG positron emission tomography and by magnetic resonance imaging

    Waiter, G. D., Al-Mohammad, A., Norton, M. Y., Redpath, T. W., Welch, A., Walton, S.
    Heart, vol. 84, pp. 332-333
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Determination of normal regional left ventricular function from cine-MR images using a semi-automated edge detection method

    Waiter, G. D., McKiddie, F. I., Redpath, T. W., Semple, S. I. K., Trent, R. J.
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 17, pp. 99-107
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Comparison of four magnetization preparation schemes to improve blood-wall contrast in cine short-axis cardiac imaging

    Semple, S. I. K., Redpath, T. W., McKiddie, F., Waiter, G. D.
    Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 291-299
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Dobutamine stress MRI as a pre operative predictor of myocardial viability in areas of regional wall motion abnormality

    Trent, R. J., Hillis, G. S., McKiddie, F., Waiter, G., Redpath, T., Walton, S.
    Heart, vol. 77, no. SUPPL. 1
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Lanthanide-EDTA doped agarose gels for use in NMR imaging phantoms

    Waiter, G. D., Foster, M. A.
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 929-938
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The variation of proton density in agarose gels used as NMR test substances through the use of glass beads

    Waiter, G. D., Lerski, R. A.
    Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 541-546
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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