Leighton Barnden

Dr. Leighton Barnden works at Griffith University in Australia, serving as a medical scientist at the National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Disease in Griffith's Menzies Health Institute Queensland. He began his career in nuclear medicine, but has specialised in medical image processing over the last 25 years.

Talks and interviews

 * 13 Mar 2019, Brain Stem Myelination & MRI Changes in ME/CFS given at the International Research Symposium, Geelong, Australia, sponsored by Emerge Australia

Notable studies

 * 2015, Evidence in chronic fatigue syndrome for severity-dependent upregulation of prefrontal myelination that is independent of anxiety and depression
 * 2016, Progressive Brain Changes in Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Longitudinal MRI Study
 * 2016, Autonomic correlations with MRI are abnormal in the brainstem vasomotor centre in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * 2017, Medial prefrontal cortex deficits correlate with unrefreshing sleep in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome
 * 2018, Decreased Connectivity and Increased Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Complexity in the Default Mode Network in Individuals with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * 2018, Brain function characteristics of chronic fatigue syndrome: A task fMRI study