PhD, CPhys, FInstP, CSci, FIPEM
Reader
- 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
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
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
The insula represents a key neurobiological pain hub in psoriatic arthritis
Sunzini, F., Stefanov, K., Al-Wasity, S., Kaplan, C., Schrepf, A., Waller, N., Harte, S., Harris, R., Clauw, D. J., McLean, J., Siebert, S., Goodyear, C. S., Waiter, G. D., Basu, N.Arthritis Research & Therapy, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 70Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-025-03526-7
FDG-PET Image Classification in Alzheimer’s Disease: from Traditional Visual Analysis to Advanced Transfer Learning
Tripathi, S., McNeil, C., Staff, R., Murray, A., Wischik, C., Schelter, B., Waiter, G.Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ImagingContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-025-00908-2
Field-Cycling Imaging yields repeatable brain R1 dispersion measurement at fields strengths below 0.2 Tesla with optimal fitting routine
Senn, N., Ross, P. J., Ayde, R., Mallikourti, V., Krishna, A., James, C., de Vries, C., Broche, L., Waiter, G., Macleod, M.Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and MedicineContributions to Journals: ArticlesDifferences in Brain Volume and Thickness between Shammah (Smokeless Tobacco) Users and Non-Users: A Cross-Sectional Study
Majrashi, N. A., Alyami, A. S., Almansour, M. A., Alyami, M. H., Almansour, M. H., Alhashlan, E., Shubayr, N., Hendi, A. M., Ageeli, W. A., Madkhali, Y., Alwadani, B., Refaee, T. A., Waiter, G. D.British Journal of Hospital Medicine, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 1-18Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMachine learning identifies routine blood tests as accurate predictive measures of pollution-dependent poor cognitive function
Johnson, H., Longden, J., Cameron, G., Waiter, G. D., Waldron, F. M., Gregory, J. M., Spence, H.Working Papers: Preprint Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.10.632396
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.
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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Automated segmentation of cerebral small vessel disease from field-cycling MRI: Proffered Conference Abstract - MIUA 2023
Senn, N., Mallikourti, V., Ross, J., Broche, L., Waiter, G., Macleod, M.Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsReply: Any Cardiac Influence of the Structural and Functional Brain Changes in Patients With Takotsubo Syndrome?
Khan, H., Waiter, G. D., Dawson, D. K.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
Campos, A. I., Van Velzen, L. S., Veltman, D. J., Pozzi, E., Ambrogi, S., Ballard, E. D., Banaj, N., Başgöze, Z., Bellow, S., Benedetti, F., Bollettini, I., Brosch, K., Canales-Rodríguez, E. J., Clarke-Rubright, E. K., Colic, L., Connolly, C. G., Courtet, P., Cullen, K. R., Dannlowski, U., Dauvermann, M. R., Davey, C. G., Deverdun, J., Dohm, K., Erwin-Grabner, T., Goya-Maldonado, R., Fani, N., Fortea, L., Fuentes-Claramonte, P., Gonul, A. S., Gotlib, I. H., Grotegerd, D., Harris, M. A., Harrison, B. J., Haswell, C. C., Hawkins, E. L., Hill, D., Hirano, Y., Ho, T. C., Jollant, F., Jovanovic, T., Kircher, T., Klimes-Dougan, B., le Bars, E., Lochner, C., McIntosh, A. M., Meinert, S., Mekawi, Y., Melloni, E., Mitchell, P., Morey, R. A., Nakagawa, A., Nenadić, I., Olié, E., Pereira, F., Phillips, R. D., Piras, F., Poletti, S., Pomarol-Clotet, E., Radua, J., Ressler, K. J., Roberts, G., Rodriguez-Cano, E., Sacchet, M. D., Salvador, R., Sandu, A., Shimizu, E., Singh, A., Spalletta, G., Steele, J. D., Stein, D. J., Stein, F., Stevens, J. S., Teresi, G. I., Uyar-Demir, A., van der Wee, N. J., van der Werff, S. J., van Rooij, S. J. H., Vecchio, D., Verdolini, N., Vieta, E., Waiter, G. D., Whalley, H., Whittle, S. L., Yang, T. T., Zarate, C. A., Thompson, P. M., Jahanshad, N., van Harmelen, A., Blumberg, H. P., Schmaal, L., Rentería, M. E.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
Khan, H., Gamble, D., Rudd, A., Mezincescu, A., Abbas, H., Noman, A., Stewart, A., Horgan, G., Krishnadas, R., Williams, C., Waiter, G., Dawson, D.JACC. Heart failure, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 307-317Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBrain mapping inflammatory arthritis related fatigue in the pursuit of novel therapeutics
Stefanov, K., al-Wasity, S., Parkinson, J. T., Waiter, G., Cavanagh, J., Basu, N.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
Madden, R. A., Atkinson, K., Shen, X., Green, C., Hillary, R. F., Hawkins, E., Såge, E., Sandu, A., Waiter, G., McNeil, C., Harris, M., Campbell, A., Porteous, D., Macfarlane, J. A., Murray, A., Steele, D., Romaniuk, L., Lawrie, S. M., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C.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
Nazlee, N., Waiter, G., Sandu-Giuraniuc, A.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)
Waiter, G. D., Gilbert, F. J., Murray, A., MacLennan, B.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
Spence, H., McNeil, C. J., Waiter, G. D.European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 6039-6054Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInvestigation of the Inter- and Intrascanner Reproducibility and Repeatability of Radiomics Features in T1-Weighted Brain MRI
Mitchell-Hay, R. N., Ahearn, T. S., Murray, A. D., Waiter, G. D.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
Higham, J., Kerr, L., Zhang, Q., Walker, R. M., Harris, S. E., Howard, D. M., Hawkins, E. L., Sandu, A., Steele, J. D., Waiter, G. D., Murray, A. D., Evans, K. L., McIntosh, A. M., Visscher, P. M., Deary, I. J., Cox, S. R., Sproul, D.Genome Biology, vol. 23, no. 1, 216Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssociations of negative affective biases and depressive symptoms in a community-based sample
de Nooij, L., Adams, M. J., Hawkins, E. L., Romaniuk, L., Munafò, M. R., Penton-Voak, I. S., Elliott, R., Bland, A. R., Waiter, G. D., Sandu, A., Habota, T., Steele, J. D., Murray, A. D., Campbell, A., Porteous, D. J., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C., Generation ScotlandPsychological Medicine, pp. 1-10Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Meta-Analytic Investigation of Grey Matter Differences in Anorexia Nervosa and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Sader, M., Williams, J., Waiter, G.European Eating Disorders Review, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 560-579Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBlunted neuroeconomic loss aversion in schizophrenia
Currie, J., Waiter, G. D., Johnston, B., Feltovich, N., Douglas Steele, J.Brain Research, vol. 1789, 147957Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2022.147957
Sexual dimorphism in the relationship between brain complexity, volume and general intelligence (g): a cross-cohort study
Sandu, A., Waiter, G. D., Staff, R. T., Nazlee, N., Habota, T., McNeil, C. J., Chapko, D., Williams, J. H., Fall, C. H. D., Chandak, G. R., Pene, S., Krishna, M., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C., Kumaran, K., Krishnaveni, G. V., Murray, A. D.Scientific Reports, vol. 12, 11025Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBrain predictors of fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis: A machine learning study
Goñi, M., Basu, N., Murray, A. D., Waiter, G. D.PloS ONE, vol. 17, no. 6, e0269952Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAmygdala and subregion volume are associated with photoperiod and seasonal depressive symptoms: A cross sectional study in the UK Biobank cohort
Majrashi, N., Alyami, A. S., Shubayr, N. A., Alenez, M. M., Waiter, G.European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 1388-1404Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEpigenome-wide association study of global cortical volumes in Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study
Barbu, M. C., Harris, M., Shen, X., Aleks, S., Green, C., Amador, C., Walker, R., Morris, S., Adams, M., Sandu, A., McNeil, C., Waiter, G., Evans, K., Campbell, A., Wardlaw, J., Steele, D., Murray, A., Porteous, D., McIntosh, A., Whalley, H.Epigenetics, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 1143–1158Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEven a little sleepiness influences neural activation and clinical reasoning in novices
Cleland, J., Gates, L. J., Waiter, G. D., Ho, V. B., Schuwirth, L., Durning, S.Health Science Reports, vol. 4, no. 4, e406Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.406
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21276/1/Cleland_etal_HSR_Even_A_Little_VoR.pdf
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Hair glucocorticoids are associated with childhood adversity, depressive symptoms and reduced global and lobar grey matter in Generation Scotland
Green, C., Stolicyn, A., Harris, M. A., Shen, X., Romaniuk, L., Barbu, M. C., Hawkins, E. L., Wardlaw, J. M., Steele, J. D., Waiter, G. D., Sandu, A., Campbell, A., Porteous, D. J., Seckl, J. R., Lawrie, S. M., Reynolds, R. M., Cavanagh, J., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C.Translational Psychiatry, vol. 11, no. 1, 523Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSpectral Clustering Based on Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging and its Relationship with Major Depressive Disorder and Cognitive Ability
Yeung, H. W., Shen, X., Stolicyn, A., De Nooij, L., Harris, M. A., Romaniuk, L., Buchanan, C. R., Waiter, G. D., Sandu, A., McNeil, C. J., Murray, A., Steele, J. D., Campbell, A., Porteous, D., Lawrie, S. M., McIntosh, A. M., Cox, S. R., Smith, K. M., Whalley, H. C.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
Backhouse, E. V., Shenkin, S. D., McIntosh, A. M., Bastin, M. E., Whalley, H. C., Valdez Hernandez, M., Muñoz Maniega, S., Harris, M. A., Stolicyn, A., Campbell, A., Steele, D., Steele, D., Waiter, G., Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waymont, J. M. J., Murray, A., Cox, S. R., de Rooij, S., Roseboom, T. J., Wardlaw, J. M.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
Shi, L., Buchanan, C. R., Cox, S. R., Hillary, R. F., Marioni, R. E., Campbell, A., Hayward, C., Stolicyn, A., Whalley, H. C., Harris, M. A., Waymont, J. M., Waiter, G., Backhouse, E. V., Wardlaw, J. M., Steele, D., McIntosh, A. M., Lovestone, S., Buckley, N., Nevado-Holgado, A. J.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
Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G., Nazlee, N., Habota, T., McNeil, C., Chapko, D., Williams, J. H., Fall, C., Chandak, G., Pene, S., Krishna, M., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C., Kumaran, K., Krishnaveni, G., Murray, A.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
Tseng, W., Hsu, Y., Chen, C., Kang, Y., Kao, T., Chen, P., Waiter, G.Neurobiology of Aging, vol. 98, pp. 160-172Contributions to Journals: Articles
