2024 BNA Scholars announced
15th March 2024
ENIGMA is an international collaborative effort that brings together researchers to better understand brain structure, function, and disease, based on meta-analyses of brain imaging and genetic data. There are currently over 30 active ENIGMA working groups covering various fields within psychiatry and neuroscience. We have recently set-up the ENIGMA Antisocial Behaviour working groupon which the student will work.
Despite notable advances in recent years, the overall impact and replicability of work in this field has been limited by small sample sizes and heterogeneous participant characteristics, imaging acquisition methods, and data analysis techniques. The harmonized meta-analytical approach of ENIGMA allows one to address these challenges more adequately, gain deeper insights into underlying pathophysiology, and generate more reproducible and generalizable findings.
The ENIGMA Antisocial Behavior initiative will focus on data covering the entire lifespan; this includes structural and functional MRI data on Conduct Problems/Disorder in youths, as well as Antisocial Personality Disorder/Psychopathy in adults. Analyses will not only be focused on disorders and categorical approaches, but also dimensional approaches where neuroimaging/genetics data that can be linked to dimensional measures indexing antisocial and externalizing behaviors in both clinical/forensic and community samples. The student working on this project will have the opportunity to liaise and network with researchers across the globe.The project will combine and train the student in methods from psychology, neuroimaging, and computer/data science, which together will put this project at the forefront of research on antisocial behaviour.
This studentship is competition funded by the BBSRC MIBTP scheme: View Website and View Website
Please read the eligibility criteria: View Website
Deadline: January 6, 2019
Number of Studentships available at UOB: 18
***IMPORTANT*** Prior to submitting a PhD application to the University of Birmingham, all interested candidates should first contact Dr De Brito at s.a.debrito@bham.ac.uk. Following this, only applicants with the most competitive CV will be requested to submit a PhD application using the University of Birmingham on-line application system. Candidates should submit a personal statement, CV, 2 references, and transcript of grades.
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Dr De Brito: s.a.debrito@bham.ac.uk