| E-mail: | ricarda.menke@ndcn.ox.ac.uk |
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| Address: | FMRIB, University of Oxford, JR Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK |
| Telephone: | +44 1865 222738 |
| Switchboard: | +44 1865 222729 |
I am a postdoctoral research fellow in the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford. I graduated from the University of Muenster (Germany) in 2004 with a diploma in Particle Physics. I then moved on to neuroimaging to study the training-induced reorganization of the language system in patients who suffered from aphasia after stroke by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging, and voxel-based morphometry during my PhD (2004-2008, Department of Neurology, University of Muenster).
In December 2007, I moved to Oxford where I started working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Clinical Neurology, searching for diagnostic and progression markers for different neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, ALS) employing imaging techniques like MRI volumetry, quantitative T1/T2/T2* imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, and resting state fMRI.
From 2010-2013 I was running an imaging project that was part of the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC) clinical research theme. My work focused on the detection of structural and functional MRI correlates of early (pre-symptomatic) neuropathological changes and genotype differences in Parkinson's Disease investigating living patients, controls and at-risk subjects, as well as post-mortem brains with high-resolution, high-field MRI (3T and 7T).
Since November 2013 I have been working with Dr Martin Turner on an MRC-funded project that focuses on establishing biomarkers for motor neuron disease (MND), particularly using advanced structural and functional neuroimaging in patients and carriers of genetic forms of MND.
The Oxford MND Centre
FMRIB
OPDC
Last updated: Mon May 17 17:15:00 GMT 2010