PhD Theses

The following are PhD theses from the UCL Epilepsy Imaging Group with links to the full text in UCL Discovery where available:

2020

• Vakharia, Vejay Niranjan; (2020) Computer-Assisted Planning and Robotics in Epilepsy Surgery. 
• De Blasi, Bianca; (2020) Multi-parametric Imaging Using Hybrid PET/MR to Investigate the Epileptogenic Brain

2019

• Lorenzo Caciagli - Neuroimaging of epilepsy: disease severity, cognitive comorbidities and endophenotypes

2016

• Mark Nowell - Novel multimodality imaging in the planning and surgical treatment of epilepsy
• Christian Vollmar - Neuroimaging of functional and structural alterations in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and frontal lobe epilepsy
• Britta Wandschneider - The effects of genes, antiepileptic drugs and risk of death on functional anatomy and cognitive networks in epilepsy

2015

• Maria Feldmann - Imaging p-glycoprotein function: prediction of treatment response in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

• Meneka Sidhu - Episodic memory in temporal lobe epilepsy

2014

• Silvia Bonelli-Nauer - Cognitive functional MRI in temporal lobe epilepsy
• Helmut Laufs - EEG-fMRI signatures of spontaneous brain activity in healthy volunteers and epilepsy patients
• Rachel Thornton - Imaging brain networks in focal epilepsy : a prospective study of the clinical application of simultaneous EEG-fMRI in pre-surgical evaluation
• Gavin Winston - Translation of novel imaging techniques into clinical use for patients with epilepsy
• Mahinda Yogarajah - Imaging structural connections of the brain in epilepsy

2013

• Umair Chaudhary - Haemodynamic correlates of interictal and ictal epileptic discharges and ictal semiology using simultaneous scalp video-EEG-fMRI and intracranial EEG-fMRI

2012

• Robert Simister - Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as applied to epilepsy
• Serge Vulliemoz - Imaging functional and structural networks in the human epileptic brain

2011

• Beate Diehl - Imaging correlates of the epileptogenic zone and functional deficit zone using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)

2008

• Khalid Hamandi - Functional MRI of focal and generalised interictal epileptiform discharges
• Afraim Salek-Haddadi - EEG-correlated functional MRI in epilepsy

2007

• Rebecca Samson - Optimisation of quantitative magnetisation transfer (qMT) MRI to study restricted protons in the living human brain

2006

• Robert Powell - Investigating brain structure and function in temporal lobe epilepsy

2005

• Karsten Krakow - Imaging of epileptic activity using EEG-correlated functional MRI

2004

• Rebecca Liu - Investigation of secondary cerebral damage in epilepsy
• Tejal Mitchell - Quantitative MRI in cerebral development disorders and epilepsy
• Fergus Rugg-Gunn - Imaging the neocortex in epilepsy with advanced MRI techniques

2003

• Alex Everitt - The structural basis of the epilepsies: MRI and epidemiological studies

2002

• Alexander Hammers - PET investigations in focal epilepsy

2000

• Udo Wieshmann - New MR imaging techniques in epilepsy

1999

• Matthias Koepp - Central benzodiazepine receptors in hippocampal sclerosis and idiopathic generalised epilepsies and opioid receptors in reading epilepsy
• Mark Richardson - Positron emission tomography investigation of cortical malformations causing epilepsy

1997

• Wim van Paesschen - Quantitative MRI and hippocampal neuropathology of temporal lobe epilepsy
• Mark Richardson - Positron emission tomography investigation of cortical malformations causing epilepsy

1996

• Sanjay Sisodiya - Qualitative and quantitative analysis of MRI data from patients with epilepsy