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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
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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Association of Inflammation With Pronociceptive Brain Connections in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients With Concomitant Fibromyalgia
Arthritis & Rheumatology, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 41-46Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMetabolic and structural skeletal muscle health in systemic lupus erythematosus related fatigue: a multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging study
Arthritis Care & Research, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 1640-1646Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.23833
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15421/1/revision_lupus_proof.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
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Functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging correlates of fatigue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatology, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 1822-1830Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kez132
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14184/1/RA_fatigue_MRI_rheum_revisions_1.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
P2-410: A RISK FACTOR PROFILE OF INCREASED WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY BURDEN IN THE ABERDEEN CHILDREN OF THE NINETEEN FIFTIES COHORT
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2019.06.2817
Differences in brain functional connectivity networks between cognitive decliners and sustainers
SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2019Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsThe Neurobiology of Personal Control During Reward Learning and Its Relationship to Mood
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 190-199Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNeurobiologic Features of Fibromyalgia Are Also Present Among Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Arthritis & Rheumatology, vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 1000-1007Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/art.40451
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12254/1/FMness_A_R_clean_revision.pdf
- [ONLINE] https://pure.abdn.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/neurobiological-features-of-fibromyalgia-are-also-present-among-rheumatoid-arthritis-patients(b584da22-0266-4883-b27c-f0279d2aed50).html
Cortical complexity predicts IQ
SINAPSE Annual Scientific MeetingContributions to Conferences: AbstractsA multi-modal MRI study of the central response to inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis
Nature Communications, vol. 9, 2243Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCerebrovascular reactivity measurement in cerebral small vessel disease: Rationale and reproducibility of a protocol for MRI acquisition and image processing
International Journal of Stroke, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 195-206Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1747493017730740
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