Personal/Contact

Date of Birth: 11^th March 1976 Nationality: British

E-mail: mbwall@gmail.com

Online networks: Twitter/X Bluesky LinkedIn Linktree

Education

1999 – 2003:                Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree (Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences) at the University of Cambridge.

1994 – 1998:                1st class BSc (Hons.) degree in Experimental Psychology with North American Studies from the University of Sussex, with an exchange year (1996/1997) at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Employment/Appointments (post-PhD)

Dec ‘19 – Present:        Honorary Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.

Mar ‘16 – Present:       Senior Imaging Scientist (Head of MRI Applications) at Invicro, Hammersmith Hospital, London.

Mar ‘15 – Mar ‘18:      Honorary Research Associate; Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, Department of Psychology, University College London.

Jan ‘13 – Dec ‘19:       Honorary Research Associate; Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London.

Nov ‘12 – Mar ‘16:      Imaging Scientist at Imanova Centre for Imaging Sciences, Hammersmith Hospital, London.

Oct ‘09 – Oct ‘12:       Joint Institute of Neurology (University College London)/GlaxoSmithKline research associate, GSK Clinical Imaging Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London.

Apr ‘07 – Oct ‘09:       MRI Support Scientist in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Oct ‘03 – Mar ‘07:      Wellcome-funded post-doctoral position in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Publications

For up-to-date citation counts and indices, see my Google Scholar profile: goo.gl/MujXAm Current total = 79 published/in press.

Ertl N, Wall MB (2024) Scanning the new frontier of mental health: Psychedelic brain imaging. The Biochemist. 10.1042/bio_2023_171

Hall D, Lawn W, Ofori S, Trinci K, Borissova A, Mokrysz C, Petrilli K, Bloomfield MAP, Wall MB, Freeman TP, Curran HV. (2024) The acute effects of cannabis, with and without cannabidiol, on attentional bias to cannabis related cues: A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over experiment. Psychopharmacology. 10.1007/s00213-024-06543-7

Erritzoe D, Zafar R, Timmerman C, Godfrey K, Rodrigues P, Peill J, Carhart-Harris R, Nutt DJ, Wall MB (2024) Exploring mechanisms of psychedelic action using neuroimaging. Nature Mental Health 2, 141-153. 10.1038/s44220-023-00172-3

Wall MB. (2023) Multiband acquisition sequences for fMRI: Proceed with caution. Aperture Neuro, 3. 10.52294/001c.91292

Saleem A, Shah SIA, Mangar S, Coello C, Wall MB, Rizzo G, Jones T, Price P (2023) Cognitive dysfunction in prostate cancer patients treated with androgen deprivation therapy: amulti-modality functional imaging study to evaluate neuroinflammation. Article ID 6641707, Prostate Cancer. 10.1155/2023/6641707

Wall MB, Harding R, Zafar R, Rabiner EA, Nutt DJ, Erritzoe D (2023) Neuroimaging in psychedelic drug development: Past, present, and future. Molecular Psychiatry. 10.1038/s41380-023-02271-0

Pelgrim TAD, Ramaekers J, Wall MB, Freeman TP, Ramsey NF, Bossong MG. (2023) Acute effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on resting state connectivity networks and impact of COMT genotype: A multi-site pharmacological fMRI study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.110925

Ertl N, Lawn W, Mokrysz C, Freeman TP, Alnagger A, Borissova A, Fernandez-Vinson N, Lees R, Ofori S, Petrilli K, Trinci K, Viding E, Curran HV, Wall MB. (2023) Associations between regular cannabis use and brain resting-state functional connectivity in adolescents and adults. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 37(9), 904-919. 10.1177/02698811231189441

Shatalina E, Ashok, AH, Wall MB, Nour MM, Myers J, Reis Marques T, Rabiner EA, Howes OD. (2023) Reward processing in schizophrenia and its relation to Mu opioid receptor availability and negative symptoms: a [11C]-carfentanil PET and fMRI study. Neuroimage: Clinical. 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103481

Zafar R, Siegel M, Harding R, Barba T, Agnorelli C, Suseelan S, Roseman L, Wall MB, Nutt DJ, Erritzoe D (2023) Psychedelic therapy in the treatment of addiction: The past, present, and future. Frontiers in Psychiatry (14). 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1183740

Wall MB, Lam C, Ertl N, Kaelen M, Roseman L, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris RL. (2023) Increased low-frequency brain responses to music after psilocybin therapy for depression. Journal of Affective Disorders 333, (321-330). 10.1016/j.jad.2023.04.081

Lawn W, Trinci K, Mokrysz C, Borissova A, Ofori S, Petrilli K, Bloomfield M, Haniff Z, Hall D, Fernandez-Vinson N, Wang S, Englund A, Chesney E, Wall MB, Freeman TP, Curran HV (2023) The acute effects of cannabis with and without cannabidiol in adults and adolescents: A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study. Addiction. 118(7), 1282-1294. 10.1111/add.16154

Mills EG, Ertl N, Wall MB, Thurston L, Yang L, Suladze S, Hunjan T, Phylactou M, Patel B, Muzi B, Ettehad D, Howard J, Rabiner EA, Beck P, Abbara A, Goldmeier D, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS. (2023) Kisspeptin increases penile tumescence and sexual brain processing in men with hypoactive sexual desire disorder. JAMA Network Open. 6(2):e2254313. 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.54313

Zahid U, Onwordi EC, Hedges EP, Wall MB, Modinos G, Murray RM, Egerton A. (2023) Neurofunctional correlates of glutamate and GABA imbalance in psychosis: a systematic review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 144, 105010. 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.105010

Shukuroglou M. Roseman L, Wall MB, Nutt DJ, Kaelen M, Carhart-Harris RL. (2023) Changes in music-evoked emotion and ventral-striatal functional connectivity after psilocybin therapy for depression. Journal of Psychopharmacology 37(1), 70-79. 10.1177/02698811221125354

Skumlien M, Freeman TP, Hall D, Mokrysz C, Wall MB, Ofori S, Petrilli K, Trinci K, Borissova A, Fernandez-Vinson N, Langley C, Sahakian BJ, Curran HV, Lawn W. (2023) The effects of acute cannabis with and without cannabidiol on neural reward anticipation in adults and adolescents. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 8(2), 70-79. 10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.10.004

Skumlien M, Mokrysz C, Freeman TP, Valton V, Wall MB, Bloomfield MAP, Lees R, Borissova A, Petrilli K, Giugliano M, Cliu D, Langley C, Sahakian BJ, Curran HV, Lawn W. (2023) Anhedonia, apathy, pleasure, and effort-based decision-making in adult and adolescent cannabis users and controls. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 26(1), 9-19. 10.1093/ijnp/pyac056

Thurston L, Hunjan T, Ertl N, Wall MB, Mills EG, Suladze S, Patel B, Alexander EC, Muzi B, Rabiner EA, Beck P, Abbara A, Goldmeier D, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS. (2022) Kisspeptin restores sexual and attraction brain processing in women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder. JAMA Network Open. 5(10):e2236131 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.36131

Thurston L, Hunjan T, Mills EG, Wall MB, Ertl N, Phylactou M, Muzi B, Patel B, Alexander EC, Suladze S, Modi M, Eng PC, Bassett P, Abbara A, Goldmeier D, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS (2022) Melanocortin-4 Receptor Agonism Enhances Sexual Brain Processing in Women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 132(19):e152341. 10.1172/JCI152341

Richie-Halford A, Cieslak M, Ai L, Caffarra S, Covitz S, Franco AR, Karipidis II, Kruper J, Milham M, Avelar-Pereira B, Roy E, Sydnor VJ, Yeatman JD, The Fibr Community Science Consortium (including Wall MB), Satterthwaite TD, Rokem A (2022) An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research. Scientific Data 9, 616. 10.1038/s41597-022-01695-7

Lawn W, Mokrysz C, Lees R, Trinci K, Petrilli K, Skumlien M, Borissova A, Ofori S, Bloomfield MAP, Das RK, Wall MB, Freeman TP, Curran HV. (2022) The CannTeen study: Cannabis use disorder, depression, anxiety, and psychotic-like symptoms in adolescents and adults cannabis users and age-matched controls. Journal of Psychopharmacology 36(12), 1350-1361. 10.1177/02698811221108956

Borissova A, Soni S, Aston ER, Lees R, Petrilli K, Wall MB, Bloomfield MAP, Mertzani E, Paksina A, Freeman TP, Mokrysz C, Lawn W, Curran HV. (2022) Age differences in the behavioural economics of cannabis use: Do adults and adolescents differ on demand for cannabis and discounting of future reward? Drug and alcohol dependence, 238(1) 109531. 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109531

Wall MB, Freeman TP, Hindocha C, Demetriou L, Ertl N, Freeman AM, Jones APM, Lawn W, Pope R, Mokrysz C, Solomons D, Statton B, Walker HR, Yamamori Y, Yang Z, Yim JLL, Nutt DJ, Howes OD, Curran HV, Bloomfield MAP. (2022) Individual and combined effects of Cannabidiol (CBD) and Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on striato-cortical connectivity in the human brain. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 36(6) 732-744. 10.1177/02698811221092506

Lawn W, Fernandez-Vinson N, Mokrysz C, Hogg G, Lees R, Trinci K, Petrilli K, Borissova A, Ofori S, Waters S, Michener P, Wall MB, Freeman TP, Curran HV. (2022) The CannTeen study: Verbal episodic memory, spatial working memory, and response inhibition in adolescent and adult cannabis users and controls. Psychopharmacology 239(5), 1629-1641. 10.1007/s00213-022-06143-3

Bloomfield MAP, Yamamori Y, Hindocha C, Jones APM, Yim JLL, Walker HR, Statton B, Wall MB, Howes OD, Curran HV, Roiser JP, Freeman TP (2022) The acute effects of cannabidiol on emotional processing and anxiety: a neurocognitive imaging study. Psychopharmacology 239(5) 1539-1549. 10.1007/s00213-022-06070-3

Daws RE, Timmerman C, Giribaldi B, Sexton JD, Wall MB, Erritzoe D, Roseman L, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris R (2022). Decreased brain modularity after psilocybin therapy for depression. Nature Medicine 28(4), 844-851. 10.1038/s41591-022-01744-z

Skumlien M, Mokrysz C, Freeman TP, Wall MB, Bloomfield MAP, Lees R, Borissova A, Petrilli K, Carson J, Coughlan T, Langley C, Sahakian BJ, Curran HV, Lawn W (2022) Neural responses to reward anticipation and feedback in adult and adolescent cannabis users and controls. Neuropsychopharmacology 47, 1976-1983. 10.1038/s41386-022-01316-2

Salem V, Demetriou L, Behary P, Alexiadou K, Scholtz S, Tharakan G, Miras AD, Purkayastha S, Ahmed AR, Bloom SR, Wall MB, Dhillo WS, Tan TMM. (2021) Weight loss by low calorie diet versus gastric bypass surgery in people with diabetes results in divergent brain activation patterns – an fMRI study. Diabetes Care 44(8), 1842-1851. 10.2337/dc20-2641

Hannaway N, Lao-Kaim NP, Martín-Bastida A, Roussakis AA, Howard J, Wall MB, Loane C, Barker RA, Piccini P. (2021). Longitudinal changes in functional imaging responses to movements in Parkinson’s disease patients. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 87, 61-69. 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2021.04.025

Comninos A, Yang L, O’Callaghan J, Mills EG, Wall MB, Demetriou L, Wing VC, Thurston L, Owen BM, Abbara A, Rabiner EA, Dhillo WS (2021) Kisspeptin decreases Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid levels in the human brain. Psychoneuroendocrinology 129, 105244. 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105244

Yang L, Demetriou L, Wall MB, Mills EG, Wing VC, Thurston L, Schaufelberger CN, Owen BM, Abbara A, Rabiner EA, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS (2021) The effects of kisspeptin on brain responses to visual food stimuli and psychometric parameters of appetite in healthy men. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 106(4), e1839-e1848. 10.1210/clinem/dgaa746

Borissova A, Ferguson B, Wall MB, Morgan CJA, Carhart-Harris, RL, Bolstridge M, Bloomfield MAP, Williams TM, Fielding A, Murphy K, Tyacke R, Erritzoe D, Stewart L, Wolff K, Nutt DJ, Curran HV, Lawn W. (2021) Effects of acute MDMA on trust, cooperative behaviour and empathy: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Journal of Psychopharmacology 35(5), 547-555. 10.1177/0269881120926673

Lawn W, Hill J, Hindocha C, Yim J, Yamamori Y, Jones G, Walker H, Green SF, Wall MB, Howes O, Curran HV, Freeman TP, Bloomfield MAP. (2020) The acute effects of cannabidiol on the neural correlates of reward anticipation and feedback in healthy volunteers. Journal of Psychopharmacology 34(9), 969-980. 10.1177/0269881120944148

The NARPS (Neuroimaging Analysis Replication Prediction Study) consortium, including Demetriou L, Wall MB. (2020) Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature 582, 84-88. 10.1038/s41586-020-2314-9

Mokrysz C, Shaban N, Freeman TP, Lawn W, Pope RA, Hindocha C, Freeman A, Wall MB, Bloomfield MAP, Morgan CJA, Nutt DJ, Curran HV. (2020) Acute effects of cannabis on speech illusions and psychotic-like symptoms: two studies testing the moderating effects of cannabidiol and adolescence. Psychological Medicine 51(12), 2134-2142. 10.1017/S0033291720001038

Yang L, Demetriou L, Wall MB, Mills E, Zargaran D, Sykes M, Prague JK, Abbara A, Rabiner EA, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS. (2020) Kisspeptin enhances brain processing of olfactory and visual cues of attraction in men. JCI Insight 5(3):e133633. 10.1172/jci.insight.133633

Mertens LJ, Wall MB, Roseman L, Demetriou L, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris RL. (2020) Therapeutic mechanisms of psilocybin: Changes in amygdala and prefrontal functional connectivity during emotional processing after psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression. Journal of Psychopharmacology 34(2), 167-180. 10.1177/0269881119895520

Lawn W, Mitchener L, Freeman TP, Benattayallah A, Bisby JA, Wall MB, Dodds CM, Curran HV, Morgan CJA. (2020) Value-based decision-making of cigarette and non-drug rewards in dependent and occasional cigarette smokers: An fMRI study. Addiction Biology 25(4), e12802. 10.1111/adb.12802

Nour M, McCutcheon R, Adams RA, Dahoun T, Wall MB, Howes OD (2019) Task-induced functional brain connectivity mediates the relationship between striatal dopamine 2/3 receptor levels and working memory performance. eLife 8, e45045. 10.7554/eLife.45045

Wall MB, Pope R, Freeman T, Kowalczyk OS, Demetriou L, Mokrysz C, Hindocha C, Lawn W, Bloomfield M, Moss A, Feilding A, Nutt DJ, Curran HV (2019) Dissociable effects of different strains of cannabis on the human brain’s major resting-state networks. Journal of Psychopharmacology 33 (7), 822-830. 10.1177/0269881119841568

Wall MB (2019) Reliability starts with the experimental tools employed. Cortex 113, 352-35410.1016/j.cortex.2018.11.034

Bloomfield MAP, Hindocha C, Wall MB, Lees R, Petrilli K, Costello H, Olabisi Ogunbiyi M, Bossong MG, Freeman TP (2019) The neuropsychopharmacology of cannabis: a review of human neuroimaging studies. Pharmacology and Therapeutics 195, 132-161. 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2018.10.006

Comninos A, Demetriou L, Wall MB, Shah A, Clarke S, Narayanaswamy S, Nesbitt A, Izzi-Engbeaya C, Prague J, Abbara A, Ratnasabapathy R, Salem V, Nijher M, Tanner M, Rabiner EA, Bloom S, Dhillo W. (2018) Kisspeptin modulates resting brain activity to enhance sexual and emotional processing in humans. JCI Insight 3(20), 1-10. 10.1172/jci.insight.121958

Nour MM, Dahoun T, Schwartenbeck P, Adams RA, FitzGerald T, Coello C, Wall MB, Dolan RJ, Howes OD (2018) Dopamine modulates belief updating but not surprise in the midbrain and ventral striatum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (43), E10167-E10176. 10.1073/pnas.1809298115

Harvey JL, Demetriou L, McGonigle J, Wall MB (2018) A short, robust brain activation control task optimised for pharmacological fMRI studies. PeerJ 6:e5540. 10.7717/peerj.5540

Demetriou L, Kowalczyk OS, Tyson G, Bello T, Newbould RD, Wall MB (2018) A comprehensive evaluation of increasing temporal resolution with multiband-accelerated protocols and effects on statistical outcome measures in fMRI. NeuroImage 176, 404-416. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.05.011

Roseman L, Demetriou L, Wall MB, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris RL (2018) Increased amygdala responses to emotional faces after psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression. Neuropharmacology 142, 263-269. 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.12.041

Freeman TP, Pope RA, Wall MB, Bisby J, Luijten M, Hindocha C, Mokrysz C, Lawn W, Moss A, Bloomfield MAP, Morgan CJA, Nutt DJ, Curran HV (2018) Cannabis dampens the effects of music in brain regions sensitive to reward and emotion. International Journal of Psychopharmacology 21(1), 21-32. 10.1093/ijnp/pyx082

Carhart-Harris RL, Roseman L, Bolstridge M, Demetriou L, Pannekoek N, Wall MB, Tanner M, Kaelen M, Murphy K, Leech R, Curran HV, Nutt DJ (2017) Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression: fMRI-measured brain mechanisms. Scientific Reports 7(1), 13187. 10.1038/s41598-017-13282-7

Wall MB, Mentink A, Lyons G, Kowalczyk OS, Demetriou L, Newbould RN. (2017) Investigating the neural correlates of smoking: Feasibility and results of combining electronic cigarettes with fMRI. Scientific Reports,7(1), 11352. 10.1038/s41598-017-11872-z

Quelch DR, Mick I, McGonigle J, Ramos AC, Flechais RSA, Bolstridge M, Rabiner EA, Wall MB, Newbould RN, Steiniger-Brach B, van den Berg F, Boyce M, Østergaard Nilausen D, Breuning Sluth L, Meulien D, von der Goltz C, Nutt DJ, Lingford-Hughes A. (2017) Nalmefene reduces reward anticipation in alcohol dependence – An experimental fMRI study. Biological Psychiatry 81(11), 941-948. 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.12.029.

Comninos A, Wall MB, Demetriou L, Shah AJ, Clarke S, Narayanaswamy S, Nesbitt A, Izzi-Engbeaya I, Prague JK, Abbara A, Ratnasabapathy R, Salem V, Nijher GM, Jayasena CN, Tanner M, Bassett P, Mehta A, Rabiner EA, Hönigsperger C, Ribeiro Silva M, Brandtzaeg OK, Lundanes E, Wilson SR, Brown RC, Thomas SA, Bloom SR, Dhillo WS (2017) Kisspeptin modulates sexual and emotional brain processing in humans. Journal of Clinical Investigation 127(2), 709-719. 10.1172/JCI89519.

Lawn W, Freeman TP, Pope R, Joye A, Harvey, L, Hindocha C, Mokrysz C, Moss A, Wall MB, Bloomfield MAP, Morgan CJA, Das RK, Nutt DJ, Curran HV. (2016) Acute and chronic effects of cannabinoids on effort-related decision-making and reinforcement learning: an evaluation of the cannabis ‘amotivational’ hypotheses. Psychopharmacology 233(19-20), 3537-52. 10.1007/s00213-016-4383-x

Kaelen M, Roseman L, Kahan J, Santos-Ribeiro A, Orban C, Lorenz R, Barrett FS, Bolstridge M, Williams T, Wall MB, Feilding A, Muthukumaraswamy S, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris R, (2016) LSD enhances music-induced imagery via changes in parahippocampal connectivity. European Neuropsychopharmacology 26(7), 1099-109. 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2016.03.018

Bishop C, Johnson S, Wall MB, Janiczek R, Shanga G, Wise R, Newbould RD, Murphy P. (2016) MRI reveals complementary effect of decongestant and nasal dilator strips on nasal anatomy. The Laryngoscope, 126(10), 2205-11. 10.1002/lary.25906

Wall MB, Birch D, Yong M (2016) Opportunities and considerations for visualising neuroimaging data on very large displays. F1000Research 5, 2157. 10.12688/f1000research.9522.1

Colasanti A, Guo Q, Giannetti P, Wall MB, Newbould RD, Bishop C, Onega M, Nicholas R, Ciccarelli O, Muraro PA, Malik O, Owen D, Young AH, Gunn RN, Piccini P, Matthews PM, Rabiner EA. (2016) Hippocampal inflammation, functional connectivity, and depressive symptoms in multiple sclerosis. Biological Psychiatry 80(1), 62-72. 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.11.022

Maron E, Wall M, Norbury R, Godlewska B, Terbeck S, Cowen P, Matthew P, Nutt DJ. (2016) Effect of short-term escitalopram treatment on neural activation during emotional processing. Journal of Psychopharmacology 30(1), 33-39. 10.1177/0269881115620462

Bourke JH, Wall MB (2015) phMRI: methodological considerations for mitigating potential confounding factors. Frontiers in Neuroscience 9, 167. 10.3389/fnins.2015.00167

Wall, MB. (2015) The expanding role of fMRI in the pharmaceutical industry. International Pharmaceutical Industry 6(4), 38-42.

Carhart-Harris RL, Murphy K, Leech R, Erritzoe D, Wall MB, Ferguson B, Williams L, Brugger S, De Meer I, Tanner M, Tyacke R, Wolff K, Sethi A, Bloomfield M, Williams TM, Bolstridge M, Stewart L, Morgan C, Newbould RD, Feilding A, Curran HV, Nutt DJ (2015) The effects of acutely administered MDMA on spontaneous brain function measured with arterial spin labelling and BOLD resting-state functional connectivity. Biological Psychiatry 78(8), 554-62. 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.12.015

Stewart LH, Ferguson B, Morgan CJA, Swaboda N, Jones L, Fenton R, Wall MB, Curran HV (2014) Effects of ecstasy on cooperative behaviour and perception of trustworthiness: A naturalistic study. Journal of Psychopharmacology 28(11), 1001-8. 10.1177/0269881114544775

Carhart-Harris RL, Wall MB, Erritzoe D, Kaelen M, Ferguson B, De Meer I, Tanner M, Bloomfield M, Williams TM, Bolstridge M, Stewart L, Morgan C, Newbould RD, Feilding A, Curran HV, Nutt DJ. (2014) The effect of acutely administered MDMA on subjective and BOLD fMRI responses to favourite and worst autobiographical memories. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 17(4), 527-540. 10.1017/S1461145713001405

Hammett ST, Smith AT, Wall MB & Larsson J. (2013) Implicit representation of speed and luminance in multiple regions of human visual cortex revealed by multivariate pattern classification analysis. Journal of Neurophysiology 110(3), 688-99. 10.1152/jn.00359.2012

Glover S, Wall MB & Smith AT. (2012) Distinct cortical networks support the planning and online control of reaching-to-grasp in humans. European Journal of Neuroscience 35, 909-915. 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08018.x

Smith AT, Wall MB & Thilo KT. (2012) Vestibular inputs to human motion-sensitive visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex 22, 1068-1077. 10.1093/cercor/bhr179

Durant SD, Wall MB & Zanker J. (2011) Manipulating the content of dynamic natural scenes to characterize responses in human MT/MST. Journal of Vision 11(10), 5. 10.1167/11.10.5

Hammett ST, Wall MB, Edwards T & Smith AT. (2010) Dietary supplementation of creatine monohydrate reduces the human fMRI BOLD signal. Neuroscience Letters 479, 201-205. 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.054

Wall MB, Walker R & Smith AT. (2009) Functional imaging of the human superior colliculus: An optimised approach. Neuroimage 47(4), 1620-7. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.094

Lingnau A, Ashida H, Wall MB, & Smith AT (2009). Speed encoding in human visual cortex revealed by fMRI adaptation. Journal of Vision 9, 1–14. 10.1167/9.13.3

Smith AT & Wall MB. (2008) Sensitivity of human visual cortical areas to the stereoscopic depth of a moving stimulus. Journal of Vision 8(10), 1-12. 10.1167/8.10.1

Wall MB & Smith AT. (2008) The representation of egomotion in the human brain. Current Biology 18, 191-194. 10.1016/j.cub.2007.12.053

Wall MB, Ashida H, Lingnau A, & Smith AT (2008) Selective visual responses to expansion and rotation in the human MT complex revealed by fMRI adaptation. European Journal of Neuroscience 27, 2747-2757. 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06249.x

Ashida H, Lingnau A, Wall MB & Smith AT. (2007) FMRI adaptation reveals separate mechanisms for first-order and second-order motion. Journal of Neurophysiology 97(2), 1319-25. 10.1152/jn.00723.2006

Livesey AC, Wall MB & Smith AT. (2007) Time perception: manipulation of task difficulty dissociates clock functions from other cognitive demands. Neuropsychologia 45, 321-331. 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.06.033

Begliomini C, Wall MB, Smith AT & Castiello U. (2007) Differential cortical activity for precision and whole-hand visually guided grasping in humans. European Journal of Neuroscience 25(4), 1245-52. 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05365.x

Smith AT, Wall MB, Williams AL, & Singh, KD. (2006) Sensitivity to optic flow in human cortical areas MT and MST. European Journal of Neuroscience 23(2), 561-9. 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04526.x

Pierno AC, Becchio C, Wall MB, Smith AT, & Castiello U. (2006) Transfer of interfered motor patterns to self from others. European Journal of Neuroscience 23(7), 1949-55. 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04706.x

Pierno AC, Becchio C, Wall MB, Smith AT, Turella L & Castiello U. (2006) When gaze turns into grasp. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18(12), 2130-7. 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.2130

Books/Book Chapters

Wall MB and Mehta M (Editors) Pharmacological fMRI: Methods and Applications (forthcoming: 2024).Elsevier.

Wall MB (2022) Interview with Matt Wall. In Madan CR (Ed) Academia and the World Beyond – Navigating Life after a PhD. London: Springer Nature.

Bluhm R, Raczek G, Broome MR, & Wall MB. (2015) Ethical Issues in Brain Imaging in Psychiatry. In Sadler JZ et al. (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pre-prints

 Wall MB, Demetriou L, Giribaldi B, Roseman L, Ertl N, Watts R, Baker-Jones M, Murphy-Beiner A, Murphy R, Martell J, Blemings A, Erritzoe D, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris R. (2023) Reduced brain responsiveness to emotional stimuli with escitalopram but not psilocybin therapy for depression. MedRxiv. 10.1101/2023.05.29.23290667

Ertl N, Lawn W, Mokrysz C, Freeman TP, Alnagger A, Borissova A, Fernandez-Vinson N, Lees R, Ofori S, Petrilli K, Trinci K, Viding E, Curran HV, Wall MB. (2022) Associations between regular cannabis use and brain resting-state functional connectivity in adolescents and adults. BioRxiv. 10.1101/2022.08.24.505069 Subsequently published in Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Wall MB, Harding R, Zafar R, Rabiner EA, Erritzoe D, Nutt DJ (2022) Neuroimaging in psychedelic drug development: Past, present, and future. PsyArXiv. 10.31234/osf.io/xwu4j

Richie-Halford A, Cieslak M, Ai L, Caffarra S, Covitz S, Franco AR, Karipidis II, Kruper J, Milham M, Avelar-Pereira B, Roy E, Sydnor VJ, Yeatman J, The Fibr Community Science Consortium, Satterthwaite TD, Rokem A. (2022) An open, analysis-ready, and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research. BioRxiv. 10.1101/2022.02.24.481303

Lawn W, Fernandez-Vinson N, Mokrysz C, Hogg G, Lees R, Trinci K, Petrilli K, Borissova A, Ofori S, Waters S, Michener P, Wall MB, Freeman TP, Curran HV. (2022) The CannTeen study: Verbal episodic memory, spatial working memory, and response inhibition in adolescent and adult cannabis users and age-matched controls. PsyArXiv. 10.31234/osf.io/zw24a

Lawn W, Mokrysz C, Lees R, Trinci K, Petrilli K, Skumlien M, Borissova A, Ofori S, Bloomfield MAP, Das RK, Wall MB, Freeman TP, Curran HV. (2022) The CannTeen study: Cannabis use disorder, depression, anxiety, and psychotic-like symptoms in adolescent and adult cannabis users and age-matched controls. PsyArXiv. 10.31234/osf.io/c7x95 Subsequently published in Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Wall MB, Lam C, Ertl N, Kaelen M, Roseman L, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris R. (2022) Increased low-frequency brain responses to music after psilocybin therapy for depression. BioRxiv. 10.1101/2022.02.13.480302 Subsequently published in Journal of Affective Disorders.

Daws RE, Timmerman C, Giribaldi B, Sexton JD, Wall MB, Erritzoe D, Roseman L, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris R (2021). Decreased brain modularity after psilocybin therapy for depression. Research Square. 10.21203/rs.3.rs-513323/v1. Subsequently published in Nature Medicine.

Michael AP. Bloomfield MAP, Yamamori Y, Hindocha C, Jones APM, Yim JLL, Walker HR, Statton B, Wall MB, Howes OD, Curran HV, Roiser JP, Freeman TP (2020) The acute effects of cannabidiol on emotional processing and anxiety: a neurocognitive imaging study. BioRxiv. 10.1101/2020.12.11.421776. Subsequently published in Psychopharmacology.

Wall MB, Freeman TP, Hindocha C, Demetriou L, Ertl N, Freeman AM, Jones APM, Lawn W, Pope R, Mokrysz C, Solomons D, Statton B, Walker HR, Yamamori Y, Yang Z, Yim JLL, Nutt DJ, Howes OD, Curran HV, Bloomfield M. (2020) Individual and combined effects of Cannabidiol (CBD) and Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on striato-cortical connectivity in the human brain. BioRxiv: 10.1101/2020.11.20.391805. Subsequently published in Journal of Psychopharmacology.

The NARPS (Neuroimaging Analysis Replication Prediction Study) consortium, including Demetriou L, Wall MB. (2019) Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. BioRxiv. 10.1101/843193 Subsequently published in Nature.

Wall, MB. (2018). Reliability starts with the experimental tools employed. PsyArXiv. 10.31234/osf.io/upynr. Subsequently published in Cortex.

Harvey JL, Demetriou L, McGonigle J, Wall MB (2017) A short, robust brain activation control task optimised for pharmacological fMRI studies. bioRxiv. 10.1101/233783. Subsequently published in PeerJ.

Kaelen M, Lorenz R, Barrett FS, Roseman L, Orban C, Santos-Ribeiro A, Wall MB, Feilding A, Nutt DJ, Muthukumaraswamy S, Carhart-Harris R, Leech R. (2017) Effects of LSD on music-evoked brain activity. bioRxiv. 10.1101/153031 Submitted to NeuroImage.

Wall MB, Mentink A, Lyons G, Kowalczyk OS, Demetriou L, Newbould RN. (2017) The effect of smoking on the brain revealed by using electronic cigarettes with concurrent fMRI. bioRxiv. 10.1101/107771 Subsequently published in Scientific Reports.

Demetriou L, Kowalczyk OS, Tyson G, Bello T, Newbould RD, Wall MB. (2016) A comprehensive evaluation of multiband-accelerated sequences and their effects on statistical outcome measures in fMRI. bioRxiv. 10.1101/076307 Subsequently published in NeuroImage.

Conference Abstracts/Talks (last three years only)

* = Oral presentation/Invited talk           † = Prize-winning

*Wall MB (2023) Exploring the applications of neuroimaging and fMRI. NeuroTech 2023, London, UK.

*Wall MB (2023) Neuroimaging and psychedelics: Past, present, and future. COMPASS Pathways seminar series, online.

*Wall MB (2023) Psychedelics, depression, emotion, and music: Explorations with pharmacological fMRI. Psychedelics society, University of Cambridge, UK.

*Wall MB (2023) Neural and clinical effects of psychedelics. Imperial College Pharmacology Conference, London, UK.

Zafar R, Siegel M, Susseleen S, Wall MB, Nutt DJ, Erritzoe D. (2023) Validation of novel fMRI paradigms in Gambling Disorder. British Association for Psychopharmacology, Manchester, UK.

Ertl N, Cottam M, Wall MB, Giribaldi B, Roseman L, Erritzoe D, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris RL (2023) SSRI treatment reduces brain response to music while psychedelic therapy does not. British Association for Psychopharmacology, Manchester, UK.

Wall MB, Ertl N, Fernandez-Vinson N, Freeman TP, Mokrysz C, Curran HV, Lawn W. (2023) Effects of acute cannabis with and without cannabidiol on adult and adolescent resting-state brain networks. British Association for Psychopharmacology, Manchester, UK.

*Wall MB, Panel discussion on ‘Neuroimaging and Psychedelics’ Psych Symposium, 2023, London, UK. https://youtu.be/3YzS34sgHXE?si=G_sAXGi6lRUlgsvy

Ertl N, Wall MB, Mills EG, Thurston L, Yang L, Suladze S, Hunjan T, Phylactou M, Patel B, Muzi B, Ettehad D, Howard J, Rabiner EA, Beck P, Abbara A, Goldmeier D, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS. (2023) Reliability and reproducibility of sexual arousal fMRI paradigms in female and male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD) patients. British Neuroscience Association Festival of Neuroscience, Brighton, UK.

*Wall MB (2022) Psychedelics, depression, emotion, and music: Explorations with pharmacological fMRI. Invited talk to the University College London society for the application of psychedelics, UK.

*Wall MB, Demetriou L, Giribaldi B, Roseman L, Ertl N, Watts R, Baker-Jones M, Murphy-Beiner A, Murphy R, Martell J, Blemings A, Erritzoe D, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris RL. (2022) Reduced brain responsiveness to emotional stimuli with escitalopram but not psilocybin therapy for depression. Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Ertl N, Wall MB, Lam C, Kaelen M, Roseman L, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris RC. (2022) The effect of psilocybin therapy for depression on low-frequency brain activity in response to music. Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Zafar R, Siegel M, Wall MB, Nutt DJ, Erritzoe D (2022) Looking through the doors of perception: the past, present and future of psychedelics to treat addiction. Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

*Wall MB. (2022) Psychedelics, depression, emotion, and music: Explorations with pharmacological fMRI. Invited talk to the Medical school of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

*Wall MB. (2022) Psychedelics, depression, emotion, and music: Explorations with pharmacological fMRI. Invited talk to the Cardiff University Postgraduate Neuroscience Society.

Thurston L, Hunjan T, Ertl N, Wall MB, Mills EG, Patel B, Alexander EC, Muzi B, Rabiner EA, Beck P, Abbara A, Goldmeier D, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS. (2022) Kisspeptin Restores Sexual and Attraction Brain Processing in Women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. ENDO, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Mills EG, Ertl N, Wall MB, Thurston L, Yang L, Suladze S, Hunjan T, Phylactou M, Patel B, Muzi B, Ettehad D, Howard J, Rabiner EA, Beck P, Abbara A, Goldmeier D, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS. (2022) Kisspeptin Increases Penile Tumescence and Sexual Brain Processing in Men with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. ENDO, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Thurston L, Hunjan T, Ertl N, Wall MB, Mills EG, Patel B, Alexander EC, Muzi B, Rabiner EA, Beck P, Abbara A, Goldmeier D, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS. (2022) Sexual Brain Processing is Enhanced by Melanocortin-4 Receptor Agonism. European Congress of Endocrinology, Milan, Italy.

Mills EG, Ertl N, Wall MB, Thurston L, Yang L, Suladze S, Hunjan T, Phylactou M, Patel B, Muzi B, Ettehad D, Howard J, Rabiner EA, Beck P, Abbara A, Goldmeier D, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS. (2022) Kisspeptin Administration has Therapeutic Potential for Men with Low Sexual Desire by Increasing Penile Tumescence and Sexual Brain Processing. European Congress of Endocrinology, Milan, Italy.

Wall MB, Demetriou L, Giribaldi B, Roseman L, Ertl N, Watts R, Baker-Jones M, Murphy-Beiner A, Murphy R, Martell J, Blemings A, Erritzoe D, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris RL. (2022) Reduced brain responsiveness to emotional stimuli with escitalopram but not psilocybin therapy for depression. From Research to Reality (Global summit on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Medicine). Toronto, Canada.

Ertl N, Wall MB, Lam C, Kaelen M, Roseman L, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris RC. (2022) The effect of psilocybin therapy for depression on low-frequency brain activity in response to music. From Research to Reality (Global summit on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Medicine). Toronto, Canada.

Ertl N, Lawn W, Mokrysz C, Freeman TP, Alnagger N, Trinci K, Lees R, Borissova A, Petrilli K, Ofori S, Curran HV, Wall MB. (2022) Effects of cannabis use on striatal and cortical resting-state functional connectivity: Data from adolescents and adults. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Glasgow, UK.

Ertl N, Lawn W, Mokrysz C, Freeman TP, Alnagger N, Trinci K, Lees R, Borissova A, Petrilli K, Ofori S, Curran HV, Wall MB. (2022) Effects of cannabis use on striatal and cortical resting-state functional connectivity: Data from adolescents and adults. CT-CANN, London, UK.

Wall MB, Ertl N, Cottam M, Demetriou L, Lee J, Yang Z, Solomons D (2022) Effect of denoising methods on reliability and reproducibility of task and resting-state fMRI. Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Glasgow, UK.

Zafar R, Erritzoe D, Wall MB, Nutt DJ (2022) Dopamine D3 Receptor antagonism in Alcohol Dependence: A case-control functional Imaging study. Global Summit on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Medicine, Toronto, Canada.

*†Shatalina E, Rizzo G, Comely R, Tsukada H, Howes OD, Rabiner EA, Wall MB (2021). Multimodal investigation of the synaptic and metabolic basis of low-frequency oscillations in the human brain: a [11C]UCB-J, [18F]BCPP-EF and resting state fMRI study. Neuroreceptor mapping conference, online.

Shatalina E, Ashok A, Wall MB, Myers J, Reis Marques T, Rabiner EA, Howes OD. (2021) Disrupted association between Mu- opioid receptor level and resting state activity in patients with schizophrenia: Multimodal imaging study with PET and resting state fMRI. Neuroreceptor mapping conference, online.

*Wall MB (2021). Psychedelics, music, and the brain: Explorations with functional MRI. Invited talk to the Department of Psychology, University of Westminster.

*†Thurston L, Hunjan T, Mills EG, Wall MB, Ertl N, Phylactou M, Muzi B, Patel B, Alexander EC, Suladze S, Modi M, Eng PC, Bassett P, Abbara A, Goldmeier D, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS. (2021) Melanocortin-4 receptor agonism improves sexual brain processing in women with low sexual desire. Society for Endocrinology BES conference, Edinburgh, UK.

*Hunjan T, Thurston L, Mills EG, Wall MB, Ertl N, Phylactou M, Muzi B, Patel B, Alexander EC, Suladze S, Modi M, Eng PC, Bassett P, Abbara A, Goldmeier D, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS. (2021) Melanocortin-4 receptor agonism enhances sexual brain processing in women with low sexual desire. British Society for Neuroendocrinology Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, UK.

Hunjan T, Thurston L, Mills EG, Wall MB, Ertl N, Phylactou M, Muzi B, Patel B, Alexander EC, Suladze S, Modi M, Eng PC, Bassett P, Abbara A, Goldmeier D, Comninos AN, Dhillo WS. (2021) The effect of melanocortin-4 receptor agonism on sexual brain processing in women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. British Association for Sexual Health & HIV conference, online.

Zaffar R, Erritzoe D, Wall MB, Myers J, Nutt DJ. (2021) Dopamine D3 Receptor antagonism in Alcohol Dependence: A case-control functional Imaging study. ECNP congress, Lisbon, Portugal.

Wall MB, Lam C, Ertl N, Kaelen M, Roseman L, Nutt DJ, Carhart-Harris R. (2021) The effect of psilocybin therapy for depression on low-frequency brain activity in response to music. ECNP congress, Lisbon, Portugal.

Ertl N, Wall MB, Freeman TP, Hindocha C, Demetriou L, Freeman AM, Jones APM, Lawn W, Pope R, Mokrysz C, Solomons D, Statton B, Walker HR, Yamamori Y, Yang Z, Yim JLL, Nutt DJ, Howes OD, Curran HV, Bloomfield MAP. (2021) Effects of strains of cannabis with and without cannabidiol or Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol on functional connectivity of the pain-matrix. ECNP congress, Lisbon, Portugal.

*Wall MB (2021) Introduction to resting-state fMRI. Invited talk to the RIOT Science club, King’s College London. https://youtu.be/K4tZxrv3iiE

*Wall MB (2021) Using neuroimaging in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. Webinar for the Royal College of Psychiatrists. https://youtu.be/ix4SJBIVLug

Mass Media/Non-Peer-Reviewed/Other

MB Wall (2023, Feb. 3rd) Shaking the kaleidoscope of the mind. The Psychologist. https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/shaking-kaleidoscope-mind

MB Wall (2016, March 26th) What do we currently know about electronic cigarettes? British Association for Psychopharmacology. goo.gl/jUDhVd

MB Wall, R Pope, T Freeman and C Mokrysz. (2015, March 11th) Cannabis, neuroscience and TV, a ‘joint’ enterprise. The Guardian, UK. goo.gl/66EoT3

MB Wall. (2014, August 26th) How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education. The Conversation, UK. goo.gl/kPr8T

MB Wall. (2014, March 25th) You can’t dismiss brain imaging as just an academic gimmick. The Conversation, UK. goo.gl/pG0TH7

Also re-posted by The Guardian (26th March): goo.gl/6Hfmtk and Scientific American (27th March): goo.gl/94WUoe

MB Wall. (2013, July 16th) What are neuromarketers really selling? The poor data and shoddy logic behind a hyped business boom. Slate. goo.gl/SJEJyP

Contributions to Drugs Live Channel Four documentary programs. Drugs Live : MDMA (September, 2012) and Drugs Live: Cannabis (March, 2015). Various other media work with BBC Radio, BBC Television, Channel 4 Television, podcasts, various publications, etc.

Teaching/Supervision Experience

Personal tutor for first year undergraduates (Royal Holloway, and University of Southampton). Leader of practical (SPSS) classes on Research Methods course (Southampton). Lecturer on Biological Psychology, Advanced Cognitive Neuroscience, and Brain and Behaviour undergraduate courses (Royal Holloway). Lecturer on MSc Human Neuroscience course (Royal Holloway). Supervision of undergraduate student projects (Southampton, and Royal Holloway). Lecturer on Translational Neuroscience MSc course (Imperial). Teacher of various courses for several years at the Cambridge College Program summer school.

Supervision of Imperial College MRes Experimental Neuroscience, and MSc Translational Neuroscience students (1-3 per year, 2016-present).

Currently (co-)supervising one PhD student: Martin Osugo (King’s College London).

Five previous (successfully completed) PhD students: Lysia Demetriou (Imperial College London, 2018), Lisa Yang (Imperial, 2020), Ekaterina Shatalina, (Imperial, 2023), Natalie Ertl (Imperial, 2023), and Rayyan Zafar (Imperial College London, 2023).

Grants and Awards

• Co-investigator on PsilOST: Psilocybin therapy for Opioid Use Disorder; a proof-of concept mechanistic study to investigate its impact on heroin use during opioid substitution Submission to Wellcome Leap call for ‘Untangling Addiction’, £3.24 million, December, 2023.
• Co-investigator on UKRI grant PSP405: “Multimodal neuroimaging and clinical study to investigate the effects of psilocybin therapy in gambling disorder: Proof of concept study”. £148,000 (2023).
• Named collaborator on MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship (Dr Edouard Mills): £295,000 (2019).
• ‘Outstanding Teacher Award’ for an educational talk delivered at the ISMRM annual meeting (Paris, 2018).

• Named collaborator on Starter Grant for Clinical Lecturers scheme from the Academy of Medical Sciences (Dr David Erritzoe): £30,000 (2018).
• Named collaborator on MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship (Dr Lisa Yang): £280,000 (2017).
• Named collaborator on MRC grant MR/P012728/1: How does cannabis use affect teenagers’ brains, cognitive functions and psychological well-being? (CANN-TEEN) awarded to Val Curran (UCL), £1.98 million (2016).
• Poster prize at the British Association for Psychopharmacology conference (Bristol, 2015).
• Named collaborator on the Gut Hormone in Addiction grant (MRC Experimental Medicine Challenge) awarded to Dr Anthony Goldstone); 1.8 million (2015).
• Research Award from the charity BackCare for an MRI project: £12,000 (2008).
• PhD funded by a Wellcome Trust Prize
• Prize for best undergraduate project; University of Sussex, (1998).

Professional Activities

Member of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), the Society for Neuroscience (SFN), and the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP).

Ad-hoc journal reviewing for: Neuroimage, Journal of Vision, Cerebral Cortex, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Experimental Brain Research, F1000, Psychopharmacology, Scientific Reports, Neuroimage: Clinical, Neuroendocrinology, Journal of Smoking Cessation, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Psychopharmacology, British Journal of Psychiatry, Cortex, Human Brain Mapping, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuropsychopharmacology, Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry, New Ideas in Psychology, Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Obesity, Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, Journal of Neuroradiology, Journal of Cannabis Research, Biological Psychiatry, Brain Imaging and Behavior, Trends in Neuroscience and Education, Imaging Neuroscience, Nature Mental Health, iScience.

Member of editorial board: Scientific Reports (2022-present).

Editor of special collection at Scientific Reports (2023): Underlying mechanisms of psychedelics and their use in therapy. https://www.nature.com/collections/chafaeiigj

Grant reviewing: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC; UK); Health Research Board (HRB; Republic of Ireland), Swiss National Science Foundation, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

External examiner for three PhD theses: Tess Verneuil (King’s College London, March 2022); Sonia Medina Hernandez (King’s College London, December 2022); Peter Kirk (University College London, July 2023).

Additional Information

• Fully trained on GCP and clinical trial
• Experience with a great many commonly-used applications and operating systems (Windows, OS X, Linux).
• Advanced user of specialist neuroimaging software (FSL, SPM, BrainVoyager, AFNI, others).
• Extensive scripting and programming experience (C/C++, OpenGL, Matlab, Python, Bash).
• I play several instruments (mostly badly) and record parody songs for release on my YouTube channel.