Zi Hui Su
DPhil Student
Quantifying gait and eye movement in Parkinson's disease.
Current clinical assessment for movement disorders like PD is often objective and results heavily influenced by medication effect.
This lack of sensitivity prevents accurate staging of disease progression, early diagnosis, and prolongs the drug discovery process.
With advancements in mobile sensing technology, we now have the tools that can rapidly collect detailed information of movement and the computing power to analyse large volumes of data.
My DPhil project looks at how mobile sensing can be used in clinical settings and identify biomarkers sensitive to disease progression but relatively unaffected by treatment.
Participate in research
Online population study on time perception in Parkinson’s disease and aged population
Parkinson’s disease is known to affect parts of the brain that are thought to be involved in perceiving the passage of time, but the nature and degree of any actual time perception problems that result is not well understood. The aim of this research is to determine whether time perception is altered in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and whether this can be accurately quantified. If so, measures of changes in time perception could potentially be used in future as a test that could help diagnose PD.
If you would like to participate in this research, join the 20 minute online study here
Public Engagement
I have joined my Prof. Antoniades in organising a number of public engagement events under the Art and Neuroscience Project, and have enjoyed sharing science with members of the public at the Royal Society and various schools across China.
Research groups
Recent publications
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EEG microstates are correlated with brain functional networks during slow-wave sleep.
Journal article
Xu J. et al, (2020), Neuroimage, 215
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Functional MRI of arousals in nonrapid eye movement sleep.
Journal article
Zou G. et al, (2020), Sleep, 43
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Dynamic functional connectivity states characterize NREM sleep and wakefulness.
Journal article
Zhou S. et al, (2019), Hum Brain Mapp, 40, 5256 - 5268
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Brain structural basis of individual variability in dream recall frequency
Journal article
Zhou S. et al, (2019), Brain Imaging and Behavior, 13, 1474 - 1485
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Quantifying eye and gait abnormalities in Parkinson's patients after Deep brain stimulation
Conference paper
Su Z. et al, (2019), MOVEMENT DISORDERS, 34
Collaborators
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Chrystalina Antoniades
Associate Professor
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James FitzGerald
Consultant Neurosurgeon