Memory loss accompanies many neurological syndromes. We use behavioural measures and brain imaging to understand how the normal processes underlying memory function are disrupted by disease.
Our research focuses on memory impairments as a result of Alzheimer's disease, limbic encephalitis, epilepsy, stroke and frontotemporal dementia.
Our team consists of neurologists, clinicians, neuropsychologists and cognitive neuroscientists investigating memory using a range of methods, including structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, magnetoencephalography, electroencephalography and behavioural experiments.
Participate in our research
We need volunteers of all ages for our research into memory in healthy and clinical populations.
If you would like to volunteer to take part in our research please email us on memory@ndcn.ox.ac.uk and we will send you information on the projects we are conducting.
Our team
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Christopher Butler
Associate Professor
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Samrah Ahmed
Postdoctoral research scientist, academic neuropsychologist
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Clare Loane
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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Michele Veldsman
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Cognitive Neurology
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Emily Butler
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Cognitive Neurology
Methods
- Neuropsychological assessments
- Clinical examination
- Computerised cognitive testing
- Magnetic resonance imaging at 3T and 7T
- Structural imaging for cortical thickness, voxel-based morphometry and structural covariance analysis
- Manual hippocampal subfield segmentation
- Functional MRI - task based and resting-state for analysis of functional networks associated with memory
- Diffusion tractography
- Magnetoencephalography
Collaborators
Prof Adam Zeman (Neurology, Exeter)
Prof Kim Graham (Cognitive Neuroscience, Cardiff)
Dr Clare Rathbone (Psychology, Brooke's University)
Prof Greg Savage (Macquarrie University, Sydney)
Dr Natalie Voets (FMRIB, Oxford)
Dr Anna Mitchell (Experimental Psychology, Oxford)
DPhil Students
Dr Thomas Miller
Tom is a clinical fellow currently investigating autobiographical memory in patients with focal hippocampal damage using high resolution 7T structural imaging techniques and neuropsychological evaluation.
Mr Serge Hoefeijzers
Serge is based at the University of Edinburgh, and is studying the cognitive basis of Accelerated Long-term Forgetting (ALF) in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.
Alumni
Dr Kathryn Atherton
Kathryn completed her DPhil in 2014 focussing on the effect of sleep and accelerated forgetting in patients with transient epileptic amnesia (TEA).