Dr. Richard Bethlehem
Director of Neuroimaging - Autism Research Centre
Assistant Professor in Neuroinformatics - Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Richard is an Assistant Professor in Neuroinformatics in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and the director of neuroimaging at the Autism Research Centre, where he works on integrated Neuroimaging and Transcriptomics in order to gain better understanding of genetic underpinnings of atypical neurodevelopment.
His work focuses on understanding lifespan changes in brain development and ageing from big data neuroimaging. In addition, his group develops tools to integrate large scale neuroimaging data with genetics and transcriptomics in an effort to better understand the biological mechanisms driving brain maturation.
His research focuses on three broad fields:
- Investigating the trajectories of brain development in typical and atypical neurodevelopment.
- Integrating multi-modal imaging and genetic information into parsing neurodevelopmental trajectories.
- Influence of neuromodulatory hormones on brain function in developmental psychopathology
He conducted his PhD in Cambridge between 2013 and 2017, funded by the MRC, Pinsent Darwin Trust, and CHESS (Cambridge Home and EU Scholarship Scheme) studying the effects of oxytocin and testosterone administration on resting state and task neural activation in the typical and autistic brain. He maintains close collaborations with the BCG and Gandal labs at UPENN, the MICA lab at the MNI and the Cognitive Neurogenetics group at the MPI.
Recent papers include:
