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.

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

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). Neuroimage.

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.

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

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

Veenith T.V., Carter E.L., Grossac J., Newcombe V.F.J., Outtrim J.G., Nallapareddy S., Lupson V., Correia M.M., Mada M., Williams G.B., Menon D.K., Coles J.P. (2017) Normobaric hyperoxia does not improve derangements in diffusion tensor imaging found distant from visible contusions following acute traumatic brain injury. Scientific Reports.

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. ReScience.

Savulich G., Riccelli R., Passamonti L., Correia M.M., Deakin J.F.W., Elliott R., Flechais R.S.A., Lingford-Hughes A.R., McGonigle J., Murphy A., Nutt D.J., Orban C., Paterson L.M., Reed L.J., Smith D.G., Suckling J., Tait R., Taylor E.M., Sahakian B.J., Robbins T.W., and Ersche K.D. (2017) Effects of naltrexone are influenced by childhood adversity during negative emotional processing in addiction recovery. Translational Psychiatry.

Kievit R.A., Davis S.W., Griffiths J., Correia M.M., Cam-CAN, Henson R.N.A. (2016) A watershed model of age-related differences in fluid intelligence: White matter, processing speed and fluid reasoning. Neuropsychologia.

Moseley R., Correia M.M., Mohr B., Baron-Cohen S., Shtyrov Y., Pulvermüller F. (2016) Volumetric hypoconnectivity of the arcuate fasciculus in adults with high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome. Molecular Autism.

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.

Veenith T.V., Carter E.L., Grossac J., Newcombe V.F., Outtrim J.G., Lupson V., Correia M.M., Mada M.M., Williams G.B., Menon D.K., Coles J.P. (2014) Use of diffusion tensor imaging to assess the impact of normobaric hyperoxia following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Critical Care.

Weiskopf N., Suckling J., Williams G.B., Correia M.M., Inkster B., Tait R., Ooi C., Bullmore E.T., Lutti A. (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.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.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.

Geva, S., Correia, M.M., & Warburton, E.A. (2011) Diffusion tensor imaging in the study of language and aphasia, Aphasiology, 25(5), 543-558.

Thompson, R., Correia, M.M., Cusack, R. (2011) Vascular contributions to multivariate pattern analysis at 3T, NeuroImage, 56(2), 643-650.

Correia, M.M, Carpenter, T.A, Williams, G.B. (2009) Looking for the optimal DTI acquisition scheme given a maximum scan time: are more b-values a waste of time?, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 27(2), 163-175.