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Louise Emsell

Email Tel. +353 (0)91 492838 / 495465

Following initial training in Medicine, at the University of Manchester, UK, (Bachelor of Medical Science (B.Med.Sci) in Medical Sciences), Louise pursued postgraduate study with The Open University, UK gaining both a Masters of Science (MSc) with Distinction, in Medicinal Chemistry, Science Education and Imaging in Medicine; and a Masters degree in Education (M.Ed) specialising in child development. She joined NUI Galway in 2006 after securing a departmental scholarship with the School of Medicine, Division of Psychiatry to pursue her PhD in Neuroimaging. For the past 3 years, alongside her doctoral research and contributions to the development of the Clinical Neuroimaging Lab, she has also provided teaching support for the Division of Anatomy, as both a neuroanatomy demonstrator and since April 2009 in an academic lecturing position. She teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, primarily on the topics of neuroanatomy and neuroimaging.

Research Interests:

Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) changes in psychiatric illness, primarily Bipolar Disorder.
Diffusion-weighted (DW-)MRI / white matter changes in psychiatric illness using diffusion tensor (DTI) and high-angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) techniques.

Research Techniques:

MRI acquisition and analysis, voxel-based morphometry (VBM), region-of-interest (ROI), diffusion MRI: DTI, HARDI (CSD), tractography.

Selected Publications:

Emsell, L & McDonald C (2009) “The Structural Neuroimaging of Bipolar Disorder”, International Review of Psychiatry, 1:4,297-313

Emsell,L,. Holleran, L. Leemans, A., Langan, C., Barker, G., van der Putten, W., McCarthy, P., Skinner,R., McDonald, C., & Cannon, D. (2009) “White matter abnormalities in euthymic bipolar I disorder: A DTI study of the cingulum bundle and uncinate fasciculus”. Irish Journal of Medical Science (forthcoming)

Langan, C., Doyle, K., Kelly, J., Emsell, L., Skinner, R., McDonald, C. “Serum BDNF levels in Euthymic Bipolar Disorder: Preliminary Results from the Galway Bipolar Study”, International Society for Bipolar Disorders Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA, June 2009 (abstract)

Emsell,L,. Leemans, A., Langan, C., Barker, G., van der Putten, W., McCarthy, P., Skinner,R., McDonald, C., & Cannon, D. A DTI tractography study of the cingulum in euthymic bipolar I disorder, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 17 ^th Scientific Meeting, Honolulu, Hawai’i, April 2009 (abstract)

Membership of professional associations:

Institute of Physics (IOP), Associate Member, including BRSG: The Magnetic Resonance Group

Department of Anatomy
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)91 492180; Fax: +353 (0)91 494520
E-mail: Anatomy
This page was last updated Tuesday, September 29, 2009