Miss Lena Dorfschmidt

University position

PhD student
Supervised by Professor Ed Bullmore, Dr Petra Vertes

Departments

Department of Psychiatry

Institutes

Brain Mapping Unit

Email

ld548@cam.ac.uk

Research Themes

Systems and Computational Neuroscience

Developmental Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

I am interested in the principles of whole-brain network organization in health and disease. I work on resting state MRI data in order to model trajectories of adolescent cortical development and identify disruptions in functional connectomics during psychiatric disorders, in particular in mood disorders.

Research Focus

Keywords

graph theory

connectome

mood disorders

neuroimaging

adolescence

Clinical conditions

Depressive disorders

Equipment

Computational modelling

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Collaborators

Cambridge

Richard Bethlehem

International

Jakob Seidlitz

Associated News Items

Publications

2018

Waller L, Brovkin A, Dorfschmidt L, Bzdok D, Walter H, Kruschwitz JD (2018), “GraphVar 2.0: A user-friendly toolbox for machine learning on functional connectivity measures” J Neurosci Methods 308:21-33