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Role Senior Research Fellow
Research area Clinical Sciences

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Studying brain development from the time of birth, through childhood and into adolescence.

Dr Ball's research combines Magnetic Resonance Imaging, bioinformatics and state-of-the-art machine learning models to discover the patterns that underlie typical brain development and identify the mechanisms that can lead to common neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism or ADHD. He is particularly interested in the impact of preterm birth on early brain development, and the long-term effects of early life adversity on a child's cognitive and functional outcomes.

Other aspects of Dr Ball's research program focus on the application of machine learning to identify abnormal movement patterns in infants at risk of developing cerebral palsy, the characterisation of pathological tissue types in paediatric brain tumour and modelling of structural connectivity networks in the brain.

Available projects include:
- Mapping cortical networks in the developing brain
- Modelling infant movements using video capture
- Combining neuroimaging and transcriptomics to model cortical development
Studying brain development from the time of birth, through childhood and into adolescence.

Dr Ball's research combines Magnetic Resonance Imaging, bioinformatics and state-of-the-art machine learning models to discover the patterns that underlie...
Studying brain development from the time of birth, through childhood and into adolescence.

Dr Ball's research combines Magnetic Resonance Imaging, bioinformatics and state-of-the-art machine learning models to discover the patterns that underlie typical brain development and identify the mechanisms that can lead to common neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism or ADHD. He is particularly interested in the impact of preterm birth on early brain development, and the long-term effects of early life adversity on a child's cognitive and functional outcomes.

Other aspects of Dr Ball's research program focus on the application of machine learning to identify abnormal movement patterns in infants at risk of developing cerebral palsy, the characterisation of pathological tissue types in paediatric brain tumour and modelling of structural connectivity networks in the brain.

Available projects include:
- Mapping cortical networks in the developing brain
- Modelling infant movements using video capture
- Combining neuroimaging and transcriptomics to model cortical development

Top Publications

  • Dehestani, N, Vijayakumar, N, Ball, G, Mansour L, S, Whittle, S, Silk, TJ. “Puberty age gap”: new method of assessing pubertal timing and its association with mental health problems. Molecular Psychiatry 1 -8 2023
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  • Seidlitz, J, Mallard, TT, Vogel, JW, Lee, YH, Warrier, V, Ball, G, Hansson, O, Hernandez, LM, Mandal, AS, Wagstyl, K, et al. The molecular genetic landscape of human brain size variation. Cell Reports 42(11) : 113439 2023
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  • Kelly, CE, Thompson, DK, Adamson, CL, Ball, G, Dhollander, T, Beare, R, Matthews, LG, Alexander, B, Cheong, JLY, Doyle, LW, et al. Cortical growth from infancy to adolescence in preterm and term-born children. Brain awad348 2023
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  • Soman, SM, Vijayakumar, N, Thomson, P, Ball, G, Hyde, C, Silk, TJ. Functional and structural brain network development in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Human Brain Mapping 44(8) : 3394 -3409 2023
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  • Soman, SM, Vijayakumar, N, Ball, G, Hyde, C, Silk, TJ. Longitudinal Changes of Resting-State Networks in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Typically Developing Children. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 8(5) : 514 -521 2023
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