Leighton Barnden

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Dr. Leighton R. Barnden works at Griffith University in Australia,[1] serving as a medical scientist at the National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Disease in Griffith's Menzies Health Institute Queensland.[2] He began his career in nuclear medicine, but has specialized in medical image processing over the last 25 years.[2]

Talks and interviews[edit | edit source]

Notable studies[edit | edit source]

  • 2015, Evidence in chronic fatigue syndrome for severity-dependent upregulation of prefrontal myelination that is independent of anxiety and depression[3]
  • 2016, Progressive Brain Changes in Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Longitudinal MRI Study[4]
  • 2016, Autonomic correlations with MRI are abnormal in the brainstem vasomotor centre in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome[5] - (Full text)
  • 2017, Medial prefrontal cortex deficits correlate with unrefreshing sleep in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome[6]
  • 2018, Decreased Connectivity and Increased Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Complexity in the Default Mode Network in Individuals with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome[7]
  • 2018, Brain function characteristics of chronic fatigue syndrome: A task fMRI study[8]
  • 2019, Intra brainstem connectivity is impaired in chronic fatigue syndrome[9] - (Full text)
  • 2020, Mapping of pathological change in chronic fatigue syndrome using the ratio of T1- and T2-weighted MRI scans[10] - (Full text)

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Leighton Barnden". Griffith Experts. Griffith University. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases". griffith.edu.au. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  3. Barnden, Leighton R.; Crouch, Benjamin; Kwiatek, Richard; Burnet, Richard; Fante, Peter Del (2015). "Evidence in chronic fatigue syndrome for severity-dependent upregulation of prefrontal myelination that is independent of anxiety and depression". NMR in Biomedicine. 28 (3): 404–413. doi:10.1002/nbm.3261. ISSN 1099-1492. PMC 4369127. PMID 25702943.
  4. Shan, Zack Y.; Kwiatek, Richard; Burnet, Richard; Fante, Peter Del; Staines, Donald R.; Marshall‐Gradisnik, Sonya M.; Barnden, Leighton R. (2016). "Progressive brain changes in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: A longitudinal MRI study". Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 44 (5): 1301–1311. doi:10.1002/jmri.25283. ISSN 1522-2586. PMC 5111735. PMID 27123773.
  5. Barnden, Leighton R.; Kwiatek, Richard; Crouch, Benjamin; Burnet, Richard; Del Fante, Peter (January 1, 2016). "Autonomic correlations with MRI are abnormal in the brainstem vasomotor centre in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". NeuroImage: Clinical. 11: 530–537. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2016.03.017. ISSN 2213-1582.
  6. Shan, Zack Y.; Kwiatek, Richard; Burnet, Richard; Fante, Peter Del; Staines, Donald R.; Marshall‐Gradisnik, Sonya M.; Barnden, Leighton R. (2017). "Medial prefrontal cortex deficits correlate with unrefreshing sleep in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome". NMR in Biomedicine. 30 (10): e3757. doi:10.1002/nbm.3757. ISSN 1099-1492.
  7. Shan, Zack Y.; Finegan, Kevin; Bhuta, Sandeep; Ireland, Timothy; Staines, Donald R.; Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya M.; Barnden, Leighton R. (February 2018). "Decreased Connectivity and Increased Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Complexity in the Default Mode Network in Individuals with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". Brain Connectivity. 8 (1): 33–39. doi:10.1089/brain.2017.0549. ISSN 2158-0022. PMID 29152994.
  8. Shan, Zack Y.; Finegan, Kevin; Bhuta, Sandeep; Ireland, Timothy; Staines, Donald R.; Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya M.; Barnden, Leighton R. (January 1, 2018). "Brain function characteristics of chronic fatigue syndrome: A task fMRI study". NeuroImage: Clinical. 19: 279–286. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2018.04.025. ISSN 2213-1582.
  9. Barnden, Leighton R; Shan, Zack Y; Staines, Donald R; Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya; Finegan, Kevin; Ireland, Timothy; Bhuta, Sandeep (2019). "Intra brainstem connectivity is impaired in chronic fatigue syndrome". NeuroImage: Clinical. 24: 102045. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2019.102045.
  10. Thapaliya, Kiran; Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya; Staines, Don; Barnden, Leighton (2020). "Mapping of pathological change in chronic fatigue syndrome using the ratio of T1- and T2-weighted MRI scans". NeuroImage: Clinical. 28: 102366. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102366. PMC 7417892. PMID 32777701.