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PhD, CPhys, FInstP, CSci, FIPEM
Reader
- 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
Associations between sex, systemic iron and inflammatory status and subcortical brain iron
European Journal of NeuroscienceContributions to Journals: ArticlesEating Disorder and Autism Collaborative (EDAC) project outline: Promoting eating disorder research embedded in a neurodiversity-affirming culture
BJPsych bulletinContributions 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: 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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Microstructural 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
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
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
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Brainstem volume mediates seasonal variation in depressive symptoms: A cross sectional study in the UK Biobank cohort
Scientific Reports, vol. 10, 3592Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60620-3
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13835/1/Majrashi_SciRep_Brainstem_Volume_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Klotho gene polymorphism, brain structure and cognition in early-life development
Brain Imaging and Behavior, vol. 14, pp. 213-225Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMotion during Acquisition is Associated with fMRI Brain Entropy
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 586-593Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2019.2907189
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13672/1/deVries_etal_IEEE_Motion_During_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
- [ONLINE] https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/motion-during-acquisition-is-associated-with-fmri-brain-entropy(29372db1-d432-4fbd-a73a-468872424e30).html
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Validation and comparison of two automated methods to quantify brain white matter hyperintensities of presumed vascular origin
Journal of International Medical Research, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 1-12Contributions to Journals: Articles