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Michael Brammer is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on medicine and neuroscience, with specific interests in pharmacology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, as well as pediatrics, perinatology and child health.

The scientist's research topics include cannabis and cannabinoid research, schizophrenia research and treatment, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, bipolar disorder and treatment, advanced MRI techniques and applications, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Michael Brammer has contributed to various publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Autism
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "A single dose of cannabidiol modulates medial temporal and striatal function during fear processing in people at clinical high risk for psychosis" (2020, Translational Psychiatry)
  • "Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Connectivity Accurately Distinguishes Cases With Psychotic Disorders From Healthy Controls, Based on Cortical Features Associated With Brain Network Development" (2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging)
  • "Altered relationship between cortisol response to social stress and mediotemporal function during fear processing in people at clinical high risk for psychosis: a preliminary report" (2021, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience)
  • "Patterns of connectome variability in autism across five functional activation tasks: findings from the LEAP project" (2022, Molecular Autism)
  • "Effects of cannabidiol on symptoms in people at clinical high risk for psychosis" (2024, World Psychiatry)

Frequent collaborators with Michael Brammer include Philip McGuire, Sagnik Bhattacharyya, Jesús Pérez, Cathy Davies, and Robin Wilson. These repeated collaborations suggest ongoing research partnerships in related areas of study.

Best Publications

  • A specific neural substrate for perceiving facial expressions of disgust

    Mary Phillips;A W Young;C Senior;Michael Brammer

  • Social intelligence in the normal and autistic brain: an fMRI study.

    Simon Baron‐Cohen;Howard A. Ring;Sally Wheelwright;Edward T. Bullmore;Edward T. Bullmore

  • Society for Neuroscience Abstracts

    G A Calvert;E Bullmore;Michael Brammer;R Bilder

  • Activation of Auditory Cortex During Silent Lipreading

    Gemma A. Calvert;Edward T. Bullmore;Michael J. Brammer;Ruth Campbell

  • Hypofrontality in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder during higher-order motor control: a study with functional MRI.

    Katya Rubia;Stephan Overmeyer;Eric Taylor;Michael Brammer

  • Mapping motor inhibition: conjunctive brain activations across different versions of go/no-go and stop tasks.

    Katya Rubia;Tamara Russell;Stephan Overmeyer;Michael J. Brammer

  • Global, voxel, and cluster tests, by theory and permutation, for a difference between two groups of structural MR images of the brain

    E.T. Bullmore;J. Suckling;S. Overmeyer;S. Rabe-Hesketh

  • Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging of crossmodal binding in the human heteromodal cortex.

    Gemma A. Calvert;Ruth Campbell;Michael J. Brammer

  • Neural responses to facial and vocal expressions of fear and disgust

    Mary Phillips;A W Young;Sarah Scott;A J Calder

  • Right inferior prefrontal cortex mediates response inhibition while mesial prefrontal cortex is responsible for error detection

    Katya Rubia;Anna B Smith;Michael J Brammer;Eric Taylor

  • Distinct Neural Correlates of Washing, Checking, and Hoarding Symptom Dimensions in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

    David Mataix-Cols;Sarah Wooderson;Natalia Lawrence;Michael J. Brammer

  • Predictors of amygdala activation during the processing of emotional stimuli: A meta-analysis of 385 PET and fMRI studies.

    Sergi G. Costafreda;Michael J. Brammer;Anthony S. David;Cynthia H.Y. Fu

  • Attenuation of the neural response to sad faces in major depression by antidepressant treatment: a prospective, event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Cynthia H. Y. Fu;Steven C. R. Williams;Anthony J. Cleare;Michael J. Brammer

  • Mapping auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia using functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Sukhwinder Shergill;Michael Brammer;Steven Williams;Robin Murray

  • Statistical methods of estimation and inference for functional MR image analysis

    Edward Bullmore;Michael Brammer;Steve C. R. Williams;Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

  • The neural correlates of anhedonia in major depressive disorder.

    Paul A. Keedwell;Chris Andrew;Steven C.R. Williams;Mick J. Brammer

  • A differential pattern of neural response toward sad versus happy facial expressions in major depressive disorder.

    Simon Surguladze;Michael J. Brammer;Paul Keedwell;Vincent Giampietro

  • Progressive increase of frontostriatal brain activation from childhood to adulthood during event-related tasks of cognitive control.

    Katya Rubia;Anna B. Smith;James Woolley;Chiara Nosarti

  • Functional frontalisation with age: mapping neurodevelopmental trajectories with fMRI

    K Rubia;S Overmeyer;E Taylor;M Brammer

  • CNVs conferring risk of autism or schizophrenia affect cognition in controls

    Hreinn Stefansson;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Stacy Steinberg;Brynja Magnusdottir

  • Colored noise and computational inference in neurophysiological (fMRI) time series analysis: Resampling methods in time and wavelet domains

    Ed Bullmore;Ed Bullmore;Chris Long;John Suckling;Jalal Fadili

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Giampietro
Vincent Giampietro King's College London
Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh
Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London
Anthony S. David
Anthony S. David University College London
Katya Rubia
Katya Rubia King's College London
Steve C.R. Williams
Steve C.R. Williams King's College London
Edson Amaro
Edson Amaro Universidade de São Paulo
Janaina Mourao-Miranda
Janaina Mourao-Miranda University College London
Ruth Campbell
Ruth Campbell University College London

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