I am a Research Associate in Preclinical Neuroimaging at the Wellcome Centre for Intergrative Neuroimaging (WIN) in Oxford. My research uses brain technologies - such as neuroimaging and brain stimulation - to generate basic and translational knowledge relevant to brain health.
My research interests revolve around myelination, multimodal microstructural MRI, and cross-species approaches to neuroimaging. At the moment, I am running a project funded by a WIN Seed Grant and focussed on cross-species homologies in the motor system.
Previous to this, I completed a Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD in the Plasticity Group at WIN. My doctoral work has investigated a recently discovered mechanism of plasticity in the adult brain - myelin plasticity. To this end, I used a variety of techniques including multimodal microstructural imaging, resting-state fMRI, non-invasive brain stimulation (TMS), invasive electrophysiology and transgenic knock-out models.
- Myelin & White Matter
- Multimodal Neuroimaging
- Brain Stimulation
- Cross-species MRI
- Methods & Open Science
PhD in Neuroscience, 2020
University of Oxford
BSc in Neuroscience, 2015
University College London
Key Publications
Lazari, A., Salvan, P., Cottaar, M., Papp, D., van der Werf, O. J., Johnstone, A., … & Johansen-Berg, H. (2020). Heterogeneous relationships between white matter and behaviour. bioRxiv. Link PDF
Lazari, A., & Lipp, I. (2020). Can MRI measure myelin? Systematic review, qualitative assessment, and meta-analysis of studies validating microstructural imaging with myelin histology. bioRxiv. Link PDF Resource
Lazari, A., Koudelka, S., & Sampaio-Baptista, C. (2018). Experience-related reductions of myelin and axon diameter in adulthood. Journal of neurophysiology, 120(4), 1772-1775. Link PDF