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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
Eating Disorder and Autism Collaborative project outline:: Promoting eating disorder research embedded in a neurodiversity-affirming culture
BJPsych bulletinContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2024.61
Eating Disorder and Autism Collaborative project outline: promoting eating disorder research embedded in a neurodiversity-affirming culture
BJPsych bulletin, pp. 1-6Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2024.61
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Associations between sex, systemic iron and inflammatory status and subcortical brain iron
European Journal of NeuroscienceContributions to Journals: ArticlesDisrupted Limbic-Prefrontal Effective Connectivity in Response to Fearful Faces in Lifetime Depression
Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 351, pp. 983-993Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCharacterizing the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Action of Exercise and Cognitive–Behavioral Interventions for Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue: a magnetic resonance imaging brain study
Arthritis & Rheumatology, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 522-530Contributions to Journals: Articles
- 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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Eating Disorder and Autism Collaborative project outline:: Promoting eating disorder research embedded in a neurodiversity-affirming culture
BJPsych bulletinContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2024.61
Eating Disorder and Autism Collaborative project outline: promoting eating disorder research embedded in a neurodiversity-affirming culture
BJPsych bulletin, pp. 1-6Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2024.61
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Associations between sex, systemic iron and inflammatory status and subcortical brain iron
European Journal of NeuroscienceContributions to Journals: ArticlesDisrupted Limbic-Prefrontal Effective Connectivity in Response to Fearful Faces in Lifetime Depression
Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 351, pp. 983-993Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCharacterizing the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Action of Exercise and Cognitive–Behavioral Interventions for Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue: a magnetic resonance imaging brain study
Arthritis & Rheumatology, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 522-530Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGeneral and specific patterns of cortical gene expression as spatial correlates of complex cognitive functioning
Human Brain Mapping, vol. 45, no. 4, e26641Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPhantom study investigating the repeatability of radiomic features with alteration of image acquisition parameters in magnetic resonance imaging
Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 19-28Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmir.2023.10.003
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Spectral peak areas do not vary according to spectral averaging scheme used in functional MRS experiments at 3 T with interleaved visual stimulation
Physical Sciences Reviews, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1287-1302Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/psr-2022-0301
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Eating Disorder and Autism Collaborative (EDAC) Project Outline:: Promoting eating disorder research embedded in a neurodiversity-affirming culture.
Working Papers: Preprint Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/yfpjn
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 articlesAssessing severity of cerebral small vessel disease using field-cycling MRI and automated segmentation: Proffered Conference Abstract - World Stroke Congress 2023
International Journal of Stroke, vol. 18, no. 3_suppl, EP201Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17474930231192010
Detection of haematoma and peri-haematomal regions of intracerebral haemorrhage using lowfield field-cycling imaging – preliminary study results
8th World Intracranial Hemorrhage Conference (WICH 2023), OP-10Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000534450
Detection of cerebral small vessel disease using denoised field-cycling MRI: Book of Abstracts ESMRMB 2023
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, vol. 36, no. Suppl 1, pp. s297Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-023-01130-x
Prevalence and Characterization of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder in a Paediatric Population
JAACAP Open, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 116-127Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssociations between sex, systemic iron and inflammatory status and subcortical brain iron
Working Papers: Preprint Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.22.554249
Automated segmentation of cerebral small vessel disease from field-cycling MRI: Proffered Conference Abstract - MIUA 2023
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsReply: Any Cardiac Influence of the Structural and Functional Brain Changes in Patients With Takotsubo Syndrome?
JACC. Heart failure, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 618Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2023.03.005
Concurrent validity and reliability of suicide risk assessment instruments: A meta-analysis of 20 instruments across 27 international cohorts
Neuropsychology, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 315-329Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://europepmc.org/article/MED/37011159
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000850
Structural and functional brain changes in acute Takotsubo Syndrome
JACC. Heart failure, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 307-317Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBrain mapping inflammatory arthritis related fatigue in the pursuit of novel therapeutics
The Lancet Rheumatology, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. e99-e109Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStructural brain correlates of childhood trauma with replication across two large, independent community-based samples
European Psychiatry, vol. 66, no. 1, e19Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAge-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
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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