Facilities and collaborations
Core facilities
NARU houses some core facilities including:
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and eye-tracking labs
- Testing rooms
- Aphasia and older control participant databases
- Test library
- Computer networks for intensive computational modelling and neuroimaging analyses
- Two bed sleep lab complete with two full N7000 polysomnography (PSG) systems from Embla and a number of dedicated sleep-monitoring computers with full licenses to the latest Somnologica software
Benefits
NARU benefits from:
- EEG, MRI (1.5T and 3T) and PET (high resolution scanner) research-dedicated facilities in the School and Faculty
- Key methods research collaborators (namely Dr Geoff Parker and Professor Karl Herholz)
Affiliations and collaborations
- NARU is closely affiliated with the University's Neuroscience Research Institute (which is directed by Professor Matt Lambon Ralph)
- It benefits from some of the richest clinical links available in the UK, thus supporting access to large populations of key patient groups including patients with aphasia after stroke (NARU has its own dedicated NHS specialist aphasia clinic run by Dr Karen Sage, Dr Diana Caine and Professor Matt Lambon Ralph)
- In addition to the formal links with Professor Jay McClelland and Professor Karalyn Patterson, the group also has key collaborations with other international researchers including:
- Cathy Price (UCL)
- Richard Wise (Imperial)
- Myrna Schwartz (Philadelphia)
- David Plaut (Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh)
- Tim Rogers, Mark Seidenberg and Maryellen MacDonald (Madison, Wisconsin)
- Satoru Saito (Kyoto)
- Marcelo Berthier (Malaga)
- Jose Luis Molinuevo (Barcelona)
