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<div><font size="2" face="Verdana">please forward the email below to anyone that might be interested.</font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><i><font size="2" face="Verdana">Investigating oscillatory behaviour in Alzheimer’s disease to establish biomarkers: an EEG and computational modelling programme of PhD study<o:p></o:p></font></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Applications are invited for a 3-year PhD studentship within the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Business Law and Social Sciences, Birmingham City University. Applicants need to demonstrate ability and
commitment, including excellent communications skills in written and spoken English.<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Verdana">Project Synopsis:<o:p></o:p></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">This proposed PhD work follows high profile research by the University of Birmingham team (Prof. Kim Shapiro, Prof. Howard Bowman and Mr Ali Mazaheri). The project is collaborative
work between Birmingham City University (Dr Eirini Mavritsak) and University of Birmingham (Prof. Kim Shapiro and Prof. Howard Bowman). The University of Birmingham team has access to ERP data of a semantic anomaly and word repetition task (Olichney et al,
2002). In the original analysis of the data Olichney and colleagues, the N400 component was analysed, which is related to semantic manipulation. Olichney and colleagues found evidence of N400 abnormalities in mild cognitive impairment patients, which predicted
later progression to Alzhemier’s. We plan to simulate this data and the changes observed in this data by developing a computational model that is based on the sSoTS (Mavritsaki, Heinke, Humphreys and Deco, 2011) model. The synaptic currents that sSoTS contains
will allow us to extract the ERP profile and simulate the above described experiment. In addition to that sSoTS model has already successfully simulated visual search outcomes for patients with Alzheimer’s (Mavritsaki and Humphreys, 2013).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">The project is separated into two phases: in phase 1, we plan to develop the computational model to simulate controls and mild cognitive impairment patients and in phase 2 we are
planning to extend the model to allow us to predict the development of the disease based on identified biomarkers.<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">The successful applicant will join the Centre for Applied Psychological Research (CAP Research) within the Department of Psychology at Birmingham City University. CAP Research is part of a vibrant and rapidly
expanding research community, which offers applicants with an excellent opportunity to develop their research career. The applicant has the opportunity to have teaching experience, to participate in research seminars and to co-supervise undergraduate projects.<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">The successful candidate will also be expected to attend the weekly meetings of the University of Birmingham research team.<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">For more information please contact Dr Eirini Mavritsaki (<a href="mailto:Eirini.mavritsaki@bcu.ac.uk">Eirini.mavritsaki@bcu.ac.uk</a>) or Prof. Howard Bowman (H.Bowman@bham.ac.uk).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Verdana">Candidate Qualification and Specifications:<o:p></o:p></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><font size="2" face="Verdana">Essential<o:p></o:p></font></u></p>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The applicant should hold a good undergraduate honours degree (First or 2:1) in psychology or related area.<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The applicant should have experience of computational modelling, evidenced by previous work or masters degree.<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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</span><!--[endif]-->A demonstrated understanding of research methods is essential (as evidenced by degree transcript grades for research methods and dissertation modules).<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Experience in C++ and Matlab.<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><font size="2" face="Verdana">Desirable<o:p></o:p></font></u></p>
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</span><!--[endif]-->A Masters’ degree in research methods, psychology or computational modelling<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Experience in EEG analysis<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Kind regards,</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Eirini</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="2">Eirini Mavritsaki, Ph.D., CPsychol <br>
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<div style="margin:0"><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Birmingham City University</span></font><font face="Calibri" size="2"><br>
The Curzon Building<br>
4 Cardigan Street<br>
Birmingham <br>
B4 7BD</font><font face="Calibri" size="2"><br>
<a href="mailto:eirini.mavritsaki@bcu.ac.uk" tabindex="0">eirini.mavritsaki@bcu.ac.uk</a>
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