Mike Modo, PhD

Dr Mike Modo graduated in psychology from Royal Holloway, University of London and spent 1 year as an exchange student at McGill University. He furthered his interests in the brain during an MSc in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College London, where he also completed a PhD in Neuroscience. Prior to his faculty appointment at the IoP, he completed his post-doctoral training in neuroimaging at the IoP. Dr Modo’s main research interest is to develop novel imaging methods that afford the analysis of neurodegeneration and regeneration in animal models using MR imaging. A more recent research interest focusses on mesoscale connectivity in human brain tissue using ex vivo MRI. To further advance our capabilities to analyze complex images, a growing interest is on the use of computational methods to integrate large data sets, as well as to determine signal changes that are not readily visualized using traditional region-of-interest analysis (e.g. deformation-based morphometry).