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Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh

Dr Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh

Reader in Developmental Neuroimaging

Research interests

  • Imaging sciences
  • Neuroscience
  • Child & Family

Contact details

Biography

Dr O’Muircheartaigh is a Reader at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and the Centre for the Developing Brain.

Early life adversity, environmental and neurological, can have long lasting consequences for the brain, altering what is considered to be “typical” neurodevelopment. Dr O’Muircheartaigh’s research focus on how the human brain develops in vivo from fetal life in utero to late adolescence, focusing on the effect of preterm birth, childhood epilepsy and clinical exposures on the trajectory of brain development.

His lab is highly multi-disciplinary and the team includes neuroscientists, physicists, psychologists, computer scientists and paediatricians. He collaborates directly with clinical teams within King’s Health Partners as well as across the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, aiming to translate findings forward to practical clinical use and back for mechanistic pre-clinical validation.

Research Interests

  • MRI in the foetus and neonatal brain
  • Brain networks in childhood epilepsy
  • Novel analytic approaches to diffusion MRI
  • Statistically modelling of brain development

Research Groups

  • MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Centre for the Developing Brain
  • AIMs-2
  • LEAP
  • BIBs

    Research

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    Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP)

    The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP)

    Project status: Ongoing

    BIBS-Baby-Picture
    Brain Imaging in Babies (BIBS)

    The Brain Imaging in Babies Study (BIBS) aims to improve understanding of how a baby's brain develops from before birth up until 3-4 years of age.

    EU-AIMS (European Autism Interventions)

    One of the largest ever research projects finding new ways to develop drugs for autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

    Dr O’Muircheartaigh delivers teaching on the following courses:

    • MSc Clinical and Neurodevelopmental Sciences
    • MSc Neuroscience
    • MSc Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology
    • MRes Biomedical Imaging
    • BSc Psychology

     

      Research

      Happy-child-with-autism
      Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP)

      The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP)

      Project status: Ongoing

      BIBS-Baby-Picture
      Brain Imaging in Babies (BIBS)

      The Brain Imaging in Babies Study (BIBS) aims to improve understanding of how a baby's brain develops from before birth up until 3-4 years of age.

      EU-AIMS (European Autism Interventions)

      One of the largest ever research projects finding new ways to develop drugs for autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

      Dr O’Muircheartaigh delivers teaching on the following courses:

      • MSc Clinical and Neurodevelopmental Sciences
      • MSc Neuroscience
      • MSc Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology
      • MRes Biomedical Imaging
      • BSc Psychology