Marnie Shaw,
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Affiliation(s):
The Australian National University
Areas of Interest:
MRI, ageing, dementia, risk factors
Biography & Research:
Marnie Shaw is Research Fellow at the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University. She obtained her PhD at the University of Melbourne jointly through the School of Physics and the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. Shaw’s background is highly interdisciplinary, covering physics, engineering, computer science, biomedical science, data analytics, psychology and neuroscience.
In the field of human brain imaging, Shaw has developed and implemented new methods for gaining insight into the structure and function of the human brain. She was one of the early researchers in the field to use multivariate analyses and machine learning techniques, methods that have brought particular insight into the functional connectivity of the human brain (e.g. Shaw et al., 2002).
Recent work has focused on longitudinal analysis of structural MRI investigate brain ageing, and how structural correlates of ageing are related to particular risk factors. One goal is to identify modifiable risk factors associated with dementia. A particular interest is in the structural correlates underlying the association between body mass index and increased dementia risk.
