Title: Novel neuroimaging methods in Lewy body dementia
Abstract: Lewy body dementia (LBD) includes both Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD). Conventional neuroimaging methods such as structural MRI have had limited utility because they mostly focus on measures of loss of volume and cortical thickness, which is heterogeneous in Lewy body disorders. Therefore, there is an urgent need to identify useful neuroimaging markers in LBD. In this talk, I will discuss findings from studies that used Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM), neuroanatomical normative modelling, brain ageing and Fixel based analysis (FBA) in patients with Lewy body disorders, to shed light on underlying disease mechanisms and determine whether neuroimaging metrics derived from these techniques have clinical promise.
Biography: Rohan is a consultant psychiatrist working in both an old age mental health crisis team in Essex Partnership University Trust and as a neuropsychiatrist at UCLH. He recently completed his PhD at the Institute of Neurology, UCL, where his thesis used novel neuroimaging methods to better understand disease mechanisms in Lewy body dementia and further explored their clinical potential. His current interest is in low field MRI.
Zoom details:
https://zoom.us/j/93711378882?pwd=ONUDhocbW7ucS5dRak0RGdZBC27ynz.1
Meeting ID: 937 1137 8882
Passcode: 845614
Posted on 20/05/2026
