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| cassandra.sampaiobaptista@ndcn.ox.ac.uk |
Cassandra Sampaio Baptista
Postdoctoral researcher
- Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College
My research focuses on functional and structural plasticity with learning and rehabilitation.
I use a combination of MR methods and histological techniques in both human and rodents.
During my Dphil I tested whether factors such as performance level or amount of practice influence brain changes at a functional, structural and neurochemical level in humans. I have also used animal models of learning in combination with MRI and histology to investigate the underlying cellular mechanisms of white-matter structural plasticity.
Recently I have developed an interest in real-time feedback fMRI in order to investigate how intentional modulation of brain activity can lead to functional brain changes and behavioural improvements and thus be applied to rehabilitation of stroke patients.
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Increasing lateralized motor activity in younger and older adults using Real-time fMRI during executed movements.
Neyedli HF. et al, (2017), Neuroscience
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Changes in white matter microstructure in the developing brain--A longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging study of children from 4 to 11years of age.
Krogsrud SK. et al, (2016), Neuroimage, 124, 473 - 486
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Corrigendum to "Changes in functional connectivity and GABA levels with long-term motor learning" [J. Neuroimage, 106, (2015), 15-20] DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.032.
Sampaio-Baptista C. et al, (2015), NeuroImage, 116
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Changes in functional connectivity and GABA levels with long-term motor learning.
Sampaio-Baptista C. et al, (2015), Neuroimage, 106, 15 - 20
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Gray matter volume is associated with rate of subsequent skill learning after a long term training intervention.
Sampaio-Baptista C. et al, (2014), Neuroimage, 96, 158 - 166