16/09/25- I have been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, worth over £1.5 million, to use brain connectivity and speech data to predict illness trajectories for patients with psychotic symptoms. I will be recruiting new group members over the next year (from research assistant to postdoc level)- please get in contact if you’re interested! You can read about the award here

30/06/25- Congratulations to Shrankhla Pandey and Ben Chidiac who have both recently passed their first year PhD vivas!

16/05/25- New paper! “Disrupted functional brain network associated with presence of hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease”– Here we identify a replicable subnetwork of functional brain connectivity associated with the presence of hallucinations in Parkinson’s, using Network Based Statistics. Feedback very welcome!

12/02/25- Congratulations to Dr Isaac Sebenius on successfully passing his PhD thesis!

11/02/25- Welcome to Zimo Zheng, Yuanting Yang and Yongze Chen who are joining our group for their MSc research projects this term

21/12/24- New preprint! “The genetic architecture of cortical similarity networks”– Here we investigate common genetic effects on Morphometric INverse Divergence (MIND) and identify two gradients of genetically-determined cortical similarity, aligned with Dual Origins theory. Feedback very welcome!

01/10/24- Welcome Ashleigh! We are delighted to welcome Ashleigh Davies as a new PhD student. Ashleigh will be working on brain network connectivity changes during early life development, co-supervised by Prof. Tomoki Arichi from the King’s Early Life Imaging Department.

22/04/24- We are moving! We are moving to the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King’s College London, where Sarah has been awarded a Senior Lectureship.

02/10/23- Welcome Ben! We are delighted to welcome Ben Chidiac as a new PhD student. Ben will be working on brain network connectivity in psychosis, co-supervised by Prof Petra Vertes from the Cambridge Psychiatry Department.

17/07/23- New publication! “Robust estimation of cortical similarity networks from brain MRI”– In this paper we propose a new method to construct structural brain networks, from T1w images, called MIND. You can find code to apply MIND to your own data here. Feedback very welcome!

10/05/23- Welcome Shrankhla! We are delighted to welcome Shrankhla Pandey as a new PhD student. Shrankhla will be working on NLP approaches to mental health research, co-supervised by Dr Graham Murray from the Cambridge Psychiatry Department.

10/05/23- Welcome Zhiyuan! We are delighted to welcome Zhiyuan Song as a new PhD student. Zhiyuan is primarily supervised by Dr Shahid Zaman from the Cambridge Psychiatry Department and is interested in developing machine learning tools to predict outcome for Alzheimer’s disease.

22/03/23- New publication! “Semantic Speech Networks Linked to Formal Thought Disorder in Early Psychosis”– In this paper we propose netts, a new method to construct a semantic speech network from a text. We then use netts to study Formal Thought Disorder. You can read a blogpost about the paper here, and install netts to use with your own data here. The work was led by Dr Caroline Nettekoven.