My research focuses on the use of quantitative MRI methods to understand the brain in health and pathology. I have a particular interested in diffusion MRI, an imaging modality which has been shown to provide useful information about the microstructural architecture of the brain. I have used this technique to study a number of brain disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury, as well as healthy ageing. I am also interested in developing methods for high resolution fMRI acquisition, in particular methods for motion correction.  

Alongside my research work I run the MRI facility at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Selected publications in peer-reviewed journals:

Richter S., Winzeck S. Correia M.M., Kornaropoulos E.N., Manktelow A., Outtrim J., Chatfield D, Posti J.P., Tenovuo O., Williams G.B., Menon D.K., Newcombe V.F.J. (2022) Validation of cross-sectional and longitudinal ComBat harmonization methods for magnetic resonance imaging data on a travelling subject cohort.

Ding B., Dragonu I., Rua C., Carlin J.D., Halai A.D., Liebig P., Heidemann R., Correia M.M., Rodgers C.T. (2022) Parallel transmit (pTx) with online pulse design for task-based fMRI at 7T. MRI

NewcombeF.J., Ashton N.J., Posti J.P., Glocker B., Manktelow A., Chatfield D.A., Winzeck S., Needham E., Correia M.M., Williams G.B., Simrén J., Takala R.S.K., Katila A.J., Maanpää H-R., Tallus J., Frantzén J., Blennow K., Tenovuo O., Zetterberg H., Menon D.K. (2022) Post-acute blood biomarkers and disease progression in traumatic brain injury. Brain.

Huang P., Correia M.M., Rua C., Rodgers C.T., Henson R.N.A., Carlin J.D. (2021) Correcting for Superficial Bias in 7Tgradient Echo fMRI. Front Neurosci.

Henriques R.N., Correia M.M., Marrale M., Huber E., Kruper J., Koudoro S., Yeatman J.D., Garyfallidis E., Rokem A. (2021) Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging in the Diffusion Imaging in Python Project. Front Hum Neurosci.

Correia M.M., Rittman T., Barnes C.L., Coyle-Gilchrist I.T., Ghosh B., Hughes L.E., Rowe J.B. (2020) Towards accurate and unbiased imaging based differentiation of Parkinson’s Disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Syndrome. Brain Communications.

Huang P., Carlin J., Henson R.N.A., Correia M.M. (2020) Improved motion correction of submillimetre 7T fMRI time series with boundary-based registration (BBR).

Huang P., Carlin J., Alink A., Kriegeskorte N., Henson R.N.A., Correia M.M. (2018) Prospective Motion correction improves the sensitivity of fMRI pattern decoding. Human Brain Mapping.

Frangou P., Correia M.M., Kourtzi Z. (2018) GABA, not BOLD, reveals dissociable learning-dependent plasticity mechanisms in the human brain.

Schmitz W., Correia M.M., Ferreira C., Prescott A., Anderson M.C. (2017) Hippocampal GABA enables inhibitory controls over unwanted thoughts. Nature Communications.

Neto-Henriques R., Rokem A., Garyfallidis E., St-Jean S., Peterson E.T., Correia M.M. (2017) [Re] Optimization of a free water elimination two-compartment model for diffusion tensor imaging.

Geva S.*, Correia M.M.*, Warburton, E. (2015) Contributions of bilateral white matter to chronic aphasia symptoms as assessed by diffusion tensor MRI. Brain and Language. (* Joint first authors)

Newcombe V.F.J., Correia M.M., Williams G.B., Abate M.G., Outtrim J.G., Chatfield D., Geeraerts T., Manktelow A., Garyfallidis E., Pickard J.D., Sahakian B.J., Hutchinson P.J., Coles J.P., Menon D.K. (2015) Dynamic evolution of temporal changes in traumatic brain injury. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.

Henriques R.N., Correia M.M., Nunes R. G., Ferreira H.A. (2015) Exploring the 3D Geometry of the Diffusion Kurtosis Tensor - Impacts on the Development of Robust Tractography Procedures and Novel Biomarkers. Neuroimage.

Weiskopf N., Suckling J., Williams G.B., Correia M.M., Inkster B., Tait R., Ooi C., Bullmore E.T., Lutti (2013) Quantitative multi-parameter mapping of R1, PD*, MT and R2* at 3T: a multi-center validation. Frontiers in Brain Imaging Methods.

Garyfallidis E., Brett M., Correia M.M., Williams G.B., Nimmo-Smith I. (2012) QuickByndkes, a method for tractography simplification. Frontiers in Neuroscience, Volume 6, Article 175.

Rae C.L., Correia M., Altena E., Hughes L.E., Barker R.A., Rowe J.B. (2012) White matter pathology in Parkinson's disease: The effect of imaging protocol differences and relevance to executive function. NeuroImage, 62(3), 1675-84.

Correia, M., Newcombe,V., Williams, G.B. (2011) Contrast-to-noise ratios for indices of anisotropy obtained from diffusion MRI: A study with standard clinical b-values at 3T. NeuroImage, 57(3), 1103-1115.