Fitzroy "Pablo" Wickham
B.A. in Neuroscience
DPHIL STUDENT
RESEARCH SUMMARY
My present research focuses on the functional role of the brain’s white matter (WM) in human decision-making. To investigate the underlying mechanisms of this cognitive process in both the healthy ageing population and cerebrovascular small vessel disease (SVD) patients, I use computational modelling approaches in combination with decision-making paradigms, self-reported clinical measures, and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).
BIOGRAPHY
I received a B.A. in Neuroscience from the Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA. During my undergraduate studies I conducted research in the Naegele Lab, using stem cell therapies to treat temporal lobe epilepsy using a mouse model. In the summer after my sophomore year, I was a neuroscience intern at Voyager Therapeutics in Boston, M.A., USA where I conducted Alzheimer’s research in mice using gene therapy as a treatment method. Currently, I am a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) student at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience and New College, University of Oxford, supervised by Prof. Masud Husain and Prof. Sanjay Manohar.
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