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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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Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Response to Mental Stress Predicts Chronic Widespread Pain Onset: Results from the SPICE Study
Arthritis & Rheumatism, vol. 62, no. S10, pp. 649Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/art.30166
The neural mechanisms of reciprocal communication
Brain Research, vol. 1353, pp. 159-167Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2010.07.066
Established donepezil treatment modulates regional brain activation in early Alzheimer's disease
Current Alzheimer Research, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 415-427Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFunctional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) reproducibility and variance components across visits and scanning sites with a finger tapping task
Neuroimage, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 552-560Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.026
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
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 157-158Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-009-0176-0
Exploring the Neural Correlates of Social Stereotyping
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1560-1570Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21091
Approximate entropy fMRI differences associated with cognitive decline
Neuroimage, vol. 47, no. Supplement 1, pp. S102Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1053-8119(09)70883-3
Prospective multi-centre Voxel Based Morphometry study employing scanner specific segmentations: procedure development using CaliBrain structural MRI data
BMC Medical Imaging, vol. 9, 8Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2342-9-8
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/1129/1/moorhead2009.pdf
Frontal operculum temporal difference signals and social motor response learning
Human Brain Mapping, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 1421-1430Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.20611
Abnormal temporal difference reward-learning signals in major depression
Brain, vol. 131, no. 8, pp. 2084-2093Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awn136