Videos
SINAPSE YouTube Channel
SINAPSE has a YouTube channel for sharing videos about Scottish imaging research produced by its members, thus far for specific projects:
IOP International Year of Light video competition
Two entries from SINAPSE were submitted in the International Year of Light video competition held in 2015 by the Institute of Physics (IOP) in Scotland, each explaining how light is used in imaging research:
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Dr James Cameron (Edinburgh) – ‘The Eye as a Window to the Brain’ |
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Tim Morgan (Glasgow) – ‘Helping to Study What’s Going Wrong in Multiple Sclerosis’ |
PhD research project 3-minute videos
SINAPSE PhD students rose to the challenge of explaining their imaging research using lay language in just 3 minutes:
| Georgia Alexandrou (Stirling) – Using mobile EEG to investigate sports performance | |
| Ellen Backhouse (Edinburgh) – Early life risk factors for stroke | |
| Simon Ladouce (Stirling) – Presentation of the mobile cognition project | |
| Maria Clara Liuzzi (Glasgow) – Target approach of brain tumours | |
| Ben Newman (St Andrews) – Investigating recollection in semantic memory | |
| Tim Morgan (Glasgow) – A brief introduction to organic chemistry [Tim’s entry for the IOP video competition, above, was about his PhD research project – so here he tackled another topic that is challenging to explain in 3 minutes!] |
2016 SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting at University of Stirling: 360 degree video [Click and drag in the video player to pan around each scene]
Lectures and Seminars
Dr Adriana Tavares (Edinburgh) – Brain scanning: A lifetime in an image [Research Insights public lecture, March 2022]
Prof David Lurie (Aberdeen) – Fast Field-Cycling: A New Frontier in MR Imaging [IPEM John Mallard Lecture at UK Imaging and Oncology Congress, June 2019]
Prof James Boardman (Edinburgh) – The Developing Human Brain [Inaugural lecture, February 2019]
Prof Joanna Wardlaw (Edinburgh) – Brain Health: A small matter of the blood vessels [Edinburgh Neuroscience annual Christmas Public Lecture, December 2018]
Dr Michael Stringer (Edinburgh) – Small Vessel Disease: Cerebrovascular Reactivity and Other Biomarkers [Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute seminar, University of Southern California, May 2018]
Prof James Boardman and Dr Sue Fletcher-Watson (Edinburgh) – The effect of being born early on children and young people [Let’s Talk About Health public lecture, February 2018]
Prof Andrew Farrall (Edinburgh) – Imaging – much more than a pretty picture [Inaugural lecture, November 2017]
Prof David Lurie (Aberdeen) – MRI scanning: A magnetic window to the body [Cafe Scientifique public lecture, October 2017]
Dr Tom MacGillivray (Edinburgh) – Eye Spy: Advances in Neuroimaging the Eye [InnovationBiotechnology public lecture, April 2016]
Brain Imaging and its Impact on Society
2010 series of three seminars held in partnership with the Scottish Universities Insight Institute
Part 1: Advances in Neuroimaging and the implications for society
- Prof Joanna Wardlaw (University of Edinburgh) – Introduction and overview of whole programme and Part 1 aims and objectives
- Prof Stephen Lawrie (University of Edinburgh) – Brain Imaging: structural and functional imaging correlates of psychosis and psychopathy
- Dr Hester Ward (Medical Director, NHS Information Services Division) – Privacy and governance implications of wider societal uses of brain imaging data
- Prof Andreas Kleinschmidt (INSERM-CEA cognitive neuroimaging unit, France) – Mind reading: can imaging tell what you are thinking?
- Dr Daniela Seixas (Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia and Porto University, Portugal) – Accuracy, reliability and limitations of functional and structural imaging data
- Prof Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, USA) – Ethical issues raised by uses of neuroscience in law
- Dr Klaus Kessler (University of Glasgow) – The strength of our claims and the strength of our data: do they always go together?
- Prof Gemma Calvert (Neurosense and University of Warwick) – The role of imaging in neuromarketing
- Prof Charles Warlow (University of Edinburgh) – Neuroimaging: a dose of realism
- Prof Christian Schwarzbauer (University of Aberdeen) – fMRI in impaired consciousness: Future diagnostic opportunities and ethical challenges
- Dr Lars Muckli (University of Glasgow) – Reading our thoughts: the future
Part 2: What is the legal view?
- Burkhard Schafer (SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP law, and Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics) – The view from the start: Best of Part 1, a PowerPoint medley
- Jed Rakoff (United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York) – The view from the Bench
- Murdo MacDonald (Church of Scotland; Church and Society Council) – The view from the pulpit
- Prof Hank Greely (Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford University, USA) – Mind reading
- Prof Mike Nellis (Professor of Criminal and Community Justice, University of Glasgow) – The truth machine
- Public Lecture: Prof Hank Greely (Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Stanford University and Co-Director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project, USA) – Neuroscience, Law, and Society: The Coming Revolution
- Michael Bromby (Glasgow Caledonian University) – Brain Imaging: Consent Issues, and Licensing of Storage and Analysis
- Gerard Porter (SCRIPT, University of Edinburgh) – Brain imaging and Insurance law
Part 3: Influencing Policy
- Prof Joanna Wardlaw (University of Edinburgh) – Summary of debate 1: Neuroimaging in Society
- Burkhard Schafer (SCRIPT and University of Edinburgh) – Summary of debate 2: What is the Legal View?
- Dr Jane Haley (University of Edinburgh) – Seeking opinions on the use of brain imaging technology in society: Report of results of the public and expert online surveys
- Prof Jonathan Moreno (Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania and Center for American Progress, USA) – Society and the Reception of Technology: the American Experience
- Prof Anne Glover (Chief Scientific Advisor, Scotland) – Reflections on the implications for Scottish policymakers
Ethics in Research Imaging Management
2010 meeting at the Wellcome Trust to discuss and highlight the magnitude and potential implications of incidental findings detected during research imaging (resultant report published by SINAPSE and the Royal College of Radiologists can be found here)
- Dr Rustam Al Shahi Salman (Edinburgh) – Frequency and type of incidental findings in neuroimaging [Q&A]
- Prof David Lomas (Cambridge) – Frequency and type of incidental findings in body imaging [Q&A]
- Dr Thomas Booth (Cambridge) – Results of The Royal College of Radiologists’ survey of ethical aspects of research imaging [Q&A]
- Prof Rüdiger von Kummer (Dresden, Germany) and Prof Frank Hentschel (Heidelberg, Germany) – Ethics of Research Imaging in Germany: Expectations of Researchers and Patients [Q&A]
- Prof Graeme Laurie (Edinburgh) – Current UK legal and regulatory framework for research imaging [Q&A]
- Dr Hugh Davies (National Research Ethics Committee, UK) – Expectations of research participants and patients: The Ethics Committee perspective on how imaging should be handled in research [Q&A]
Videos from SINAPSE partner Universities
University of Aberdeen
- Mark-1: The world’s first whole body MRI scanner (extended version)
50-min documentary on the pioneering contributions of physicists and technical staff in the University of Aberdeen Medical Physics department who designed and built the world’s first clinically-used whole-body MRI scanner
Short video on the Fast Field-Cycling (FFC) MRI technology being developed at the University of Aberdeen
University of Edinburgh
- Edinburgh Imaging Opening Symposium: 30 June 2017
Lectures are available to view from a day-long scientific symposium celebrating the opening of new Edinburgh Imaging facilities:
- Welcome and Morning Session on Metabolic Imaging (with keynote speaker: Prof Chris Boesch)
- Pre-lunch session on Cardiovascular Imaging (with keynote speaker: Prof Zahi Fayad)
- Afternoon session on Neurological Disease (with keynote speaker: Prof Steve Williams)
- Late-afternoon session on Translational Highlights
View ‘Research in a Nutshell’ videos from Edinburgh Imaging academics here
Visit the Edinburgh Imaging YouTube channel here
University of Glasgow
- The University of Glasgow Imaging Centre of Excellence (September 2017)
- Arrival of Scotland’s first 7T clinical MRI scanner (November 2016)
European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) Academy
EPAD is a major Alzheimer’s Dementia research study which takes place across Europe, and is led from the University of Edinburgh. The project includes EPAD Academy webinars, held by world-class senior researchers on current topics in Alzheimer’s Dementia research for young researchers. Webinar presentations on imaging in dementia research include the following:
- Prof Frederik Barkhof, VU University Medical Centre (VUmc) – Imaging in AD: Latest developments
Royal Society of Edinburgh Quiz-A-Whiz
This YouTube series invites school pupils to submit questions to speakers, academics, and professionals in an ‘Ask the Expert’ style project. The following episodes have featured SINAPSE members: