Sharna D Jamadar

Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health; Monash Biomedical Imaging

Monash University

Sharna D Jamadar
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Dr Sharna Jamadar is a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. She is a cognitive neuroscientist who specialises in using multiple neuroimaging techniques to understand cognition in health and disease. Sharna specialises in fusing data between behavioural, psychophysiological (electroencephalography [EEG], oculomotor recordings) and neuroimaging (magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], positron emission tomography [PET]) techniques, to provide converging insight into cognition in ageing, neurodegenerative illnesses, and psychiatric disorders. Her recent work has focused on the development of simultaneous blood oxygenation level dependent functional MRI / [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose PET (BOLD-fMRI/FDG-PET) protocols to measure brain function in response to a task. Her ultimate goal is to apply these new methods to understand cognitive reserve in ageing.

Dr Jamadar has received numerous Australian and international distinctions for the quality of her work, including Science & Technology Australia's Superstars of STEM program (2019-2020), the Society for Psychophysiological Research Distinguished Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology (2016), and awards from the US Society for Neuroscience and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Publications

Radiotracer toediening voor hoge temporele resolutie positron emissie tomografie van het menselijk brein: toepassing op FDG-fPET

1Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, 2Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, 3Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, 4Department of Medical Imaging, Monash Health, 5Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University

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