Charlotte Rae

Interests

In my PhD, supervised by James Rowe, I am investigating the selection and inhibition of voluntary action. The process of initiating voluntary movements, and then stopping or changing your actions, relies on the prefrontal cortex. I use DTI (diffusion tensor imaging) and fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), including Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM), to investigate how the prefrontal cortex carries out these functions in healthy subjects. I also use these methods to investigate how prefrontal networks may become abnormal in Parkinson's disease, a movement disorder characterised by deficits in voluntary action.

"Marylin's Brain" MRI art
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Research Focus

Equipment

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)