Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
The Centre supports a wide range of research activities reflecting the diversity of functions the brain performs, from sensory processing to higher cognitive functioning such as decision making. Researchers at the Centre have produced cumulative evidence demonstrating the brain’s remarkable plasticity and ability to recover. This has had an important cultural impact on clinicians and patients, creating added emphasis on rehabilitation and hope for recovery following serious brain injury.
Listen to Professor Ray Dolan, Director of the Centre, provide a brief introduction to the history the Centre and the technologies that have led to the visualisation of the brain in action.
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An introduction to some of the Centre's many findings.
Principal investigators and their teams.
Related films
Watch our selection of films about the work of the Centre.
Talking heads (rebuilding language after stroke)
Featuring Tess and Michael, who have each had a stroke affecting language in very different ways, and Professor Cathy Price and Dr Alex Leff of the Centre's Language Group, who are using fMRI to better understand how language works in the brains of both healthy volunteers and stroke patients.
Laughing in the face of reality (the science of optimism)
Dr Tali Sharot discusses the neurological correlates of what we call optimism.
Steve gets a brain scan
Without the thousands of people who volunteer to have their brains scanned each year, many areas of modern neuroscience research would not be possible. But what is it like to have your brain scanned?
MRI : Deciphering inner space
Dr Nikolaus Weiskopf, Head of Physics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, explains magnetic resonance imaging.