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Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- anca.sandu-giuraniuc@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438377
- Office Address
Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre
Lilian Sutton Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Anca-Larisa Sandu is a graduate in Medical Bioengineering (1995-2001) from “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania. She received a MSc in “Nonlinearity and Self-organization in Complex Systems” from ”Al.I.Cuza” University, Faculty of Physics in the same city (2001-2003). She completed her PhD with the dissertation “MRI measures of brain volume and cortical complexity in clinical groups and during development” under the direction of Prof. Kenneth Hugdahl, Bergen fMRI Group, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway (2004-2009). Thereafter she moved to France where she continued her research, as a post-doc, on brain imaging using also VBM and fMRI approaches in Research Unit INSERM – CEA 1000, Neuroimaging & Psychiatry, Paris Sud University (2009-2012). Since 2012 she has been with the University of Aberdeen, in Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre, where she was a research fellow until December 2021 when she was promoted to lecturer.
Latest Publications
Disrupted Limbic-Prefrontal Effective Connectivity in Response to Fearful Faces in Lifetime Depression
Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 351, pp. 983-993Contributions 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: ArticlesConcurrent 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 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
- Research
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Research Overview
Structural and functional MRI, brain imaging, developing quantitative neuroimaging methods, image processing and analysis, cognitive neuropsychology, mental disorders, brain development and ageing
Supervision
I am currently lead supervisor for the PhD thesis "Brain cortical complexity and its association with life-course factors across adulthood"
Funding and Grants
PI:
2020-2022 “Brain functional connectivity networks and resilience to cognitive decline in late-midlife: The influence of biological and life-course factors.” Sandu-Giuraniuc A, Murray AD, Waiter G. Roland Sutton Academic Trust, £116,465
2020-2021 “Hippocampal subfields and cognitive decline”, Sandu-Giuraniuc A. Alzheimer’s Research UK, emergency funding award £1,000
2018-2019 “A pilot study to identify the earliest brain imaging predictors of cognitive decline” Sandu-Giuraniuc A, Waiter GD, McNeil CJ, Habota T, Murray A, McIntosh AM. TENOVUS Scotland £11,616
2017-2019 “Is cortical complexity a measure of cerebral reserve against dementia?” Sandu-Giuraniuc A, Waiter G, Murray A. Alzheimer’s Research UK junior member small grant £1,950
Co-I:
2019-2022 “PhD support costs. Brain cortical complexity: a support package for a self-funded PhD student” Waiter GD, Sandu-Giuraniuc A, Roland Sutton Academic Trust £9,000
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Dr Sandu-Giuraniuc teaches in Medical Physics and Medical Imaging MSc programmes, she is:
- the lead of Statistics module as part of BP5003 and BP5512
- the tutor of the Maths for Imaging tutorial as part of BP5011 and BP5511
- delivering a lecture Brain Metrics extracted through advanced image processing as part of BP5505 and BP5905
- Publications
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Cortical complexity predicts IQ
SINAPSE Annual Scientific MeetingContributions to Conferences: AbstractsIncreased diastolic blood pressure is associated with MRI biomarkers of dementia-related brain pathology in normative ageing
Age and Ageing, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 95-100Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAmygdala and regional volumes in treatment-resistant versus nontreatment-resistant depression patients
Depression and Anxiety, vol. 34, pp. 1065-1071Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/da.22675
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/10881/1/Manuscript_Sandu_final.pdf
Relationship between IQ at different ages and functional brain connectivity in healthy elders
SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2017Contributions to Conferences: PostersEarly Brain Development and Cognitive Ageing: A Global Challenge
Neuro CentralContributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesDopamine Transporter and Reward Anticipation in Psychiatric Patients: A Positron Emission Tomography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP), Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting, pp. S117-S118Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsSexual dimorphism in changes of cortical complexity associated with cognitive decline in late life
Alzheimer's Research UKContributions to Conferences: AbstractsA comparison of measurement methods of hippocampal atrophy rate for predicting Alzheimer's dementia in the Aberdeen Birth Cohort of 1936
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, vol. 6, pp. 31-39Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA longitudinal study of cognitive and hippocampal ageing in late life
British Neuroscience Association, 2015 Festival of NeuroscienceContributions to Conferences: AbstractsMapping the cortical complexity and cognitive decline in late life
Alzheimer's research UK 2015Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts