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Overview
My current research focuses on understanding the microstructural properties of white matter in the human brain. More broadly, I am interested in both structural and functional connectivity in the brain and how this may differ in psychiatric disorders or as a result of treatment resistance or pharmacological intervention.
Publication
2025
- Cai, Q. et al. 2025. Decoding brain structure-function dynamics in health and in psychosis via an autoencoder. Scientific Reports 15 40052. (10.1038/s41598-025-24232-z)
- Cicimen, A. G. et al., 2025. Image quality transfer of diffusion MRI guided By high-resolution structural MRI. Presented at: CDMRI 2024 Marrakesh, Morocco 06 October 2024. Published in: Chamberland, M. et al., Computational Diffusion MRI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer Nature Switzerland. , pp.106-118. (10.1007/978-3-031-86920-4_10)
- Ioakeimidis, V. et al. 2025. In vivo mapping of striatal microstructure in Huntington's disease with Soma and Neurite Density Imaging. [Online].MedRxiv: MedRxiv. Available at: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.17.25324107v1.
- Ioakeimidis, V. et al. 2025. In vivo mapping of striatal neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease with Soma and Neurite Density Imaging. eLife 14 RP107661. (10.7554/eLife.107661.1)
- McCloskey, H. et al. 2025. Quantified head-ball impacts in soccer: a preliminary, prospective study. Neurotrauma Reports 6 (1), pp.928-943. (10.1177/2689288x251380145)
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2025. WAND: A multi-modal dataset integrating advanced MRI, MEG, and TMS for multi-scale brain analysis. Scientific Data 12 220. (10.1038/s41597-024-04154-7)
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2025. Controlled antenatal thyroid screening study III: effects of gestational thyroid status on brain microstructure. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 110 (12), pp.3322-3330. (10.1210/clinem/dgaf277)
- Urbini, N. et al., 2025. The cognitive cerebellum: linking microstructure to cognitive functions in a healthy population. NeuroImage 317 121356. (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121356)
2024
- Scholz, A. et al. 2024. Controlled antenatal thyroid screening study III: Effects of gestational thyroid status on adolescent brain morphology. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (10.1210/clinem/dgae338)
2023
- Williams, B. et al., 2023. Inter-rater reliability of functional MRI data quality control assessments: A standardised protocol and practical guide using pyfMRIqc. Frontiers in Neuroscience 17 1070413. (10.3389/fnins.2023.1070413)
2022
- Francis, K. B. and McNabb, C. B. 2022. Moral decision-making during COVID-19: Moral judgments, moralisation, and everyday behaviour. [Online].OSF Preprints. (10.31219/osf.io/jvfds)Available at: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/jvfds.
2021
- McNabb, C. B. and Murayama, K. 2021. Unnecessary reliance on multilevel modelling to analyse nested data in neuroscience: When a traditional summary-statistics approach suffices. Current Research in Neurobiology 2 100024. (10.1016/j.crneur.2021.100024)
2020
- Burgess, L. et al., 2020. Friendship networks and academic motivation: A longitudinal investigation examining selection and influence processes in adolescents. [Online].OSF Preprints. (10.31219/osf.io/ck9y4)Available at: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/ck9y4.
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2020. No evidence for a relationship between social closeness and similarity in resting-state functional brain connectivity in schoolchildren. Scientific Reports 10 (1) 10710. (10.1038/s41598-020-67718-8)
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2020. Inter-slice leakage and intra-slice aliasing in simultaneous multi-slice echo-planar images. Brain Structure and Function 225 (3), pp.1153-1158. (10.1007/s00429-020-02053-2)
2019
- Curley, L. E. et al., 2019. Pharmacy student perspectives of interprofessional learning in a simulated ward environment course. American journal of pharmaceutical education 83 (6) 6848. (10.5688/ajpe6848)
- McNabb, C. , Smith, E. R. and Russell, B. R. 2019. Management of mental health disorders and the pharmacist's role: schizophrenia. In: Babar, Z. ed. Encyclopedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy. Elsevier. , pp.686-698. (10.1016/B978-0-12-812735-3.00550-1)
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2019. Disrupted white matter integrity in treatment-resistant schizophrenia. [Online].medRxiv. (10.1101/19010777)Available at: https://doi.org/10.1101/19010777.
2018
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2018. Increased sensorimotor network connectivity associated with clozapine eligibility in people with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 275 , pp.36-42. (10.1016/j.pscychresns.2018.02.008)
- Sengupta, N. et al., 2018. Integrating space, time, and orientation in spiking neural networks: a case study on multimodal brain data modeling. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 29 (11)(10.1109/tnnls.2018.2796023)
2017
- Howes, O. D. et al., 2017. Treatment-resistant schizophrenia: treatment response and resistance in psychosis (TRRIP) working group consensus guidelines on diagnosis and terminology. The American Journal of Psychiatry 174 (3), pp.216-229. (10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16050503)
2015
- Caprioli, D. et al., 2015. Dissociable rate-dependent effects of oral methylphenidate on impulsivity and D2/3 receptor availability in the striatum. The Journal of Neuroscience 36 (9), pp.3747-3755. (10.1523/jneurosci.3890-14.2015)
2012
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2012. Single chemical entity legal highs: assessing the risk for long term harm. Current Drug Abuse Reviews 5 (4), pp.304-319. (10.2174/1874473711205040005)
Articles
- Cai, Q. et al. 2025. Decoding brain structure-function dynamics in health and in psychosis via an autoencoder. Scientific Reports 15 40052. (10.1038/s41598-025-24232-z)
- Caprioli, D. et al., 2015. Dissociable rate-dependent effects of oral methylphenidate on impulsivity and D2/3 receptor availability in the striatum. The Journal of Neuroscience 36 (9), pp.3747-3755. (10.1523/jneurosci.3890-14.2015)
- Curley, L. E. et al., 2019. Pharmacy student perspectives of interprofessional learning in a simulated ward environment course. American journal of pharmaceutical education 83 (6) 6848. (10.5688/ajpe6848)
- Howes, O. D. et al., 2017. Treatment-resistant schizophrenia: treatment response and resistance in psychosis (TRRIP) working group consensus guidelines on diagnosis and terminology. The American Journal of Psychiatry 174 (3), pp.216-229. (10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16050503)
- Ioakeimidis, V. et al. 2025. In vivo mapping of striatal neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease with Soma and Neurite Density Imaging. eLife 14 RP107661. (10.7554/eLife.107661.1)
- McCloskey, H. et al. 2025. Quantified head-ball impacts in soccer: a preliminary, prospective study. Neurotrauma Reports 6 (1), pp.928-943. (10.1177/2689288x251380145)
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2025. WAND: A multi-modal dataset integrating advanced MRI, MEG, and TMS for multi-scale brain analysis. Scientific Data 12 220. (10.1038/s41597-024-04154-7)
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2012. Single chemical entity legal highs: assessing the risk for long term harm. Current Drug Abuse Reviews 5 (4), pp.304-319. (10.2174/1874473711205040005)
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2025. Controlled antenatal thyroid screening study III: effects of gestational thyroid status on brain microstructure. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 110 (12), pp.3322-3330. (10.1210/clinem/dgaf277)
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2020. No evidence for a relationship between social closeness and similarity in resting-state functional brain connectivity in schoolchildren. Scientific Reports 10 (1) 10710. (10.1038/s41598-020-67718-8)
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2020. Inter-slice leakage and intra-slice aliasing in simultaneous multi-slice echo-planar images. Brain Structure and Function 225 (3), pp.1153-1158. (10.1007/s00429-020-02053-2)
- McNabb, C. B. and Murayama, K. 2021. Unnecessary reliance on multilevel modelling to analyse nested data in neuroscience: When a traditional summary-statistics approach suffices. Current Research in Neurobiology 2 100024. (10.1016/j.crneur.2021.100024)
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2018. Increased sensorimotor network connectivity associated with clozapine eligibility in people with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 275 , pp.36-42. (10.1016/j.pscychresns.2018.02.008)
- Scholz, A. et al. 2024. Controlled antenatal thyroid screening study III: Effects of gestational thyroid status on adolescent brain morphology. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (10.1210/clinem/dgae338)
- Sengupta, N. et al., 2018. Integrating space, time, and orientation in spiking neural networks: a case study on multimodal brain data modeling. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 29 (11)(10.1109/tnnls.2018.2796023)
- Urbini, N. et al., 2025. The cognitive cerebellum: linking microstructure to cognitive functions in a healthy population. NeuroImage 317 121356. (10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121356)
- Williams, B. et al., 2023. Inter-rater reliability of functional MRI data quality control assessments: A standardised protocol and practical guide using pyfMRIqc. Frontiers in Neuroscience 17 1070413. (10.3389/fnins.2023.1070413)
Book sections
- McNabb, C. , Smith, E. R. and Russell, B. R. 2019. Management of mental health disorders and the pharmacist's role: schizophrenia. In: Babar, Z. ed. Encyclopedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy. Elsevier. , pp.686-698. (10.1016/B978-0-12-812735-3.00550-1)
Conferences
- Cicimen, A. G. et al., 2025. Image quality transfer of diffusion MRI guided By high-resolution structural MRI. Presented at: CDMRI 2024 Marrakesh, Morocco 06 October 2024. Published in: Chamberland, M. et al., Computational Diffusion MRI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer Nature Switzerland. , pp.106-118. (10.1007/978-3-031-86920-4_10)
Websites
- Burgess, L. et al., 2020. Friendship networks and academic motivation: A longitudinal investigation examining selection and influence processes in adolescents. [Online].OSF Preprints. (10.31219/osf.io/ck9y4)Available at: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/ck9y4.
- Francis, K. B. and McNabb, C. B. 2022. Moral decision-making during COVID-19: Moral judgments, moralisation, and everyday behaviour. [Online].OSF Preprints. (10.31219/osf.io/jvfds)Available at: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/jvfds.
- Ioakeimidis, V. et al. 2025. In vivo mapping of striatal microstructure in Huntington's disease with Soma and Neurite Density Imaging. [Online].MedRxiv: MedRxiv. Available at: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.17.25324107v1.
- McNabb, C. B. et al. 2019. Disrupted white matter integrity in treatment-resistant schizophrenia. [Online].medRxiv. (10.1101/19010777)Available at: https://doi.org/10.1101/19010777.
Biography
Academic Positions
2023 - present: Lecturer, Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University United Kingdom.
2022 - 2023: Research Fellow, Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University United Kingdom.
2017 - 2022: Research Associate/Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, United Kingdom.
2017 - 2017: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Postgraduate Education
2017: PhD (Pharmacy), "Brain dysconnectivity as a biomarker of treatment resistance in schizophrenia". University of Auckland, New Zealand.
2012: MHSc (Experimental Psychology) - "A structural and pharmacological analysis of high impulsivity in the five-choice serial reaction time task investigating the effects of chronic cocaine and methylphenidate administration on D2/3 receptor availability and premature responding". University of Auckland, New Zealand & University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2010: Post-graduate diploma in Science (Pharmacology and Physiology; Distinction). University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Undergraduate Education
2006: BSc (Pharmacology and Physiology). University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Awards
2020: British Science Association Margaret Mead Award Lecture
Contact Details
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+44 29225 10259
Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Maindy Road, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ
+44 29225 10259
Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Maindy Road, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ