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Dr Gordon Waiter

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Dr Gordon Waiter
Dr Gordon Waiter
Dr Gordon Waiter

PhD, CPhys, FInstP, CSci, FIPEM

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Email Address
g.waiter@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 438356
Office Address
F10 Lilian Sutton Building
Foresterhill Campus
Foresterhill
AB25 2ZD

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School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Personal Assistant
Personal Assistant
Mrs Dawn Younie
Personal Assistant Email Address
d.younie@abdn.ac.uk
Personal Assistant Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 438365






Biography

Dr. Waiter graduated from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, in 1989 with a BSc (Hons) in Physical Sciences majoring in Physics. He then moved to Dundee University, Department of Medical Physics as Research Assistant, to develop MR imaging test objects. He returned to Aberdeen in 1991, this time to the 51cg to undertake a PhD in Medical Physics, under the supervision of Dr. M. Foster
 

He joined the staff of Aberdeen University in 1996 as a research fellow working in collaboration with the university Department of BioMedical Physics and NHS Department of Cardiology to develop image analysis methods for the detection of hibernating myocardium.

In 2001 Dr Waiter joined the School of Psychology to help initiate functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on a new 1.5T research dedicated scanner at the 51cg.

In 2004 he joined the Department of Radiology (now part of the Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre) to continue the development of functional magnetic resonance imaging in Aberdeen. His work has included paradigm design, data analysis, data acquisition, quality control and image analysis.

Dr Waiter was appointed Reader in 2021.

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Director, Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre

Associate Director, Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science

Honorary Clinical Scientist and MR Safety Expert, NHS Grampian

Member, North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2

External Memberships

Aberdeen Lead for SINAPSE ()

Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)

Chartered Physicist (CPhys)

Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (FIPEM)

Chartered Scientist (CSci)

Latest Publications

  • Ethical Complexities and Concerns Surrounding Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Open-Access Scientific Framework in Autism Research

    Sader, M., Maloney, E., Waiter, G., Kerr-Gaffney, J., Tchanturia, K., Gillespie-Smith, K., Duffy, F.
    Autism in Adulthood, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 554-562
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Machine learning identifies routine blood tests as accurate predictive measures of pollution-dependent poor cognitive function

    Johnson, H., Longden, J., Cameron, G., Waiter, G. D., Waldron, F. M., Gregory, J. M., Spence, H.
    Scientific Reports
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Brain Perivascular Space Morphometry Reflects Shared Familial Microvascular Architecture and Neuropsychiatric Influences

    Morozova, A., Valdés Hernández, M. d. C., Duarte Coello, R., Whalley, H., McIntosh, A., Sandu Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G. D., McNeil, C. J., Steele, J. D., Macfarlane, J. A., Murray, A., Wardlaw, J. M.
    Stroke
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Assessing Cognitive Deterioration After COVID-19 Infection (The ACDC Study): An Exploratory Multimodal Neuroimaging Study

    McLaughlin, J., Waiter, G.
    Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 15, no. 11, 4241
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Conducting ethical, co-produced research with autistic individuals with an eating disorder: best practice guidelines

    Nimbley, E., Maloney, E., Gillespie-Smith, K., Sharpe, H., Buchan, K., Kettley, S., Bragg, J., Shepherd, A., Choat, B., Long, J., Whateley, I., Booth, O., Baker, J. A., Renton, N., Nuttal, E., Darley, H., Fidgin, L., Campbell, L., Suratwala, T., Temple, C., MacDonald, K., Carden, S., Lazich, B., Kerr-Gaffney, J., Sader, M., Waiter, G., Tchanturia, K., Duffy, F., The Eating Disorder and Autism Collaborative Network (EDAC)
    Eating Disorders, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 90-100
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates
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Research

Research Overview

Dr. Gordon Waiter's main areas of interest are in brain plasticity and cognition with a focus on the mechanisms of age-related cognitive decline and in particular the role of inflammation, both chronic and acute, and immunosenescence in brain ageing.

The pathology that leads to dementia begins many decades before symptoms appear. It is hoped that an improved understanding of the age-related changes in brain health and cognition, and the impact of cardiometabolic and inflammation factors, will have an impact on public health through targets for intervention, earlier diagnosis, therapy monitoring and drug development. It will bring a new understanding of common neurodegenerative diseases at a personalised level, allowing individualised treatment and new ways to diagnose the brain diseases that lead to dementia.

Dr. Waiter has developed a multisystem approach based on a combination of novel and established computational neuroimaging, biochemistry, and statistical modelling methods and is applying them to disorders reporting common symptoms like cognitive decline, brain fog and Long COVID.

Teaching

Programmes

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Dr Waiter is Programme Co-ordinator for the MSc in Medical Imaging

Dr Waiter is the course co-ordinator for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging deeper study (BP5503) of the BioMedical Physics/Medical Imaging MSc, where he teaches fMRI theory and image analysis techniques as well as cardaic MR imaging. He also teaches Statistical Paramagnetic Mapping (SPM) on the Medical Image Processing and Analysis deeper study (BP5505).

Publications

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  • Brain structural complexity and life course cognitive change

    Mustafa, N., Ahearn, T. S., Waiter, G. D., Murray, A. D., Whalley, L. J., Staff, R. T.
    Neuroimage, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 694-701
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Large-scale digital image data gathering framework for the TOMMY trial

    Cameron, G. G., Waiter, G. D., Gillan, M. G. C., Mungutroy, E. H. L., Tate, C., McInally, F., Iqbal, A., Murphy, J., Gilbert, F. J.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Inter-individual differences in fMRI entropy measurements in old age

    Sokunbi, M. O., Staff, R. T., Waiter, G. D., Ahearn, T. S., Fox, H. C., Deary, I. J., Starr, J. M., Whalley, L. J., Murray, A. D.
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 3206-3214
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Mine and me: exploring the neural basis of object ownership

    Turk, D. J., Van Bussel, K., Waiter, G. D., Macrae, C. N.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 3657-3668
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Partial recovery from amnesia following bilateral surgical fornix transection is correlated with cortical plasticity

    Mazarakis, N. K., Summers, F., Murray, A. D., Waiter, G. D., Fouyas, I. P.
    British Journal of Neurosurgery, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 658-661
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Puddles, Parties, and Professors: Linking Word Categorization to Neural Patterns of Visuospatial Coding

    Quadflieg, S., Etzel, J. A., Gazzola, V., Keysers, C., Schubert, T. W., Waiter, G. D., Macrae, C. N.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 2636-2649
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Stereotype-based modulation of person perception

    Quadflieg, S., Flannigan, N., Waiter, G. D., Rossion, B., Wig, G. S., Turk, D. J., Macrae, C. N.
    Neuroimage, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 549-557
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Expected Value and Prediction Error Abnormalities in Depression and Schizophrenia

    Gradin, V. B., Anandh Kumar, P., Waiter, G. D., Ahearn, T. S., Stickle, C., Milders, A., Reid, I. C., Hall, J., Steele, J. D.
    Brain, vol. 134, no. 6, pp. 1751-1764
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Between- and within-scanner variability in the CaliBrain study n-back cognitive task

    Gradin, V., Gountouna, V., Waiter, G., Ahearn, T. S., Brennan, D., Condon, B., Marshall, I., McGonigle, D. J., Murray, A. D., Whalley, H., Cavanagh, J., Hadley, D., Lymer, K., McIntosh, A., Moorhead, T. W., Job, D., Wardlaw, J., Lawrie, S. M., Steele, J. D.
    Psychiatry Research, vol. 184, no. 2, pp. 86-95
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Response to Mental Stress Predicts Chronic Widespread Pain Onset: Results from the SPICE Study

    Jones, G., Waiter, G. D., Beasley, M., Gkazinou, C., Macfarlane, G.
    Arthritis & Rheumatism, vol. 62, no. S10, pp. 649
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
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  • The neural mechanisms of reciprocal communication

    Nagy, E., Liotti, M., Brown, S., Waiter, G. D., Bromiley, A., Trevethan, C. T., Bardos, G.
    Brain Research, vol. 1353, pp. 159-167
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Established donepezil treatment modulates regional brain activation in early Alzheimer's disease

    McGeown, W. J., Shanks, M. F., Forbes-McKay, K. E., Waiter, G. D., Elrick, I., Venneri, M. G., Venneri, A.
    Current Alzheimer Research, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 415-427
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) reproducibility and variance components across visits and scanning sites with a finger tapping task

    Gountouna, V., Job, D. E., McIntosh, A. M., Moorhead, T. W. J., Lymer, G. K. L., Whalley, H. C., Hall, J., Waiter, G. D., Brennan, D., McGonigle, D. J., Ahearn, T. S., Cavanagh, J., Condon, B., Hadley, D. M., Marshall, I., Murray, A. D., Steele, D., Wardlaw, J. M., Lawrie, S. M.
    Neuroimage, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 552-560
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • ESMRMB 2009 Congress, Antalya, Turkey, 1–3 October: Abstracts, Friday: Reproducibility of hippocampus and amygdala volume measures using the FSL tool FIRST: a multi centre perspective

    Cameron, G. G., Ahearn, T., Salarirad, S., Waiter, G. D., Staff, R. T., Lymer, K., Gountouna, V., Lawrie, S., Brennan, D., Moorhead, T., Condon, B., Steele, D., Wardlaw, J., Murray, A. D.
    Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 157-158
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Exploring the Neural Correlates of Social Stereotyping

    Quadflieg, S., Turk, D. J., Waiter, G. D., Mitchell, J. P., Jenkins, A. C., Macrae, C. N.
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1560-1570
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Approximate entropy fMRI differences associated with cognitive decline

    Roijals Miras, J., Staff, R., Waiter, G. D., Murray, A. D., Fox, H. C., Starr, J., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L.
    Neuroimage, vol. 47, no. Supplement 1, pp. S102
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
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  • Prospective multi-centre Voxel Based Morphometry study employing scanner specific segmentations: procedure development using CaliBrain structural MRI data

    Moorhead, T. W. J., Gountouna, V., Job, D. E., McIntosh, A. M., Romaniuk, L., Lymer, G. K. S., Whalley, H. C., Waiter, G. D., Brennan, D., Ahearn, T. S., Cavanagh, J., Condon, B., Steele, J. D., Wardlaw, J. M., Lawrie, S. M.
    BMC Medical Imaging, vol. 9, 8
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Frontal operculum temporal difference signals and social motor response learning

    Kumar, P., Waiter, G., Ahearn, T., Milders, M., Reid, I., Steele, J. D.
    Human Brain Mapping, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 1421-1430
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Abnormal temporal difference reward-learning signals in major depression

    Kumar, P., Waiter, G., Ahearn, T., Milders, M., Reid, I., Steele, J. D.
    Brain, vol. 131, no. 8, pp. 2084-2093
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) MRI: a novel technique for the assessment of myocardial ischemia as identified by nuclear imaging SPECT

    Egred, M., Waiter, G. D., Redpath, T. W., Semple, S. I. K., Al-Mohammad, A., Walton, S.
    European Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 581-586
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging in patients with dypiridamole induced ischaemia; a PET comparative study

    Egred, M., Waiter, G. D., Semple, S. I. K., Redpath, T. W., Al-Mohammad, A., Norton, M. Y., Metcalfe, M. J., Walton, S.
    International Journal of Cardiology, vol. 115, no. 1, pp. 36-41
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) MRI: A novel technique for the detection of myocardial ischemia

    Egred, M., Waiter, G. D., Al-Mohammad, A., Semple, S. I. K., Redpath, T. W., Walton, S.
    European Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 551-555
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging in patients with dypiridamole induced ischemia; a PET comparative study

    Egred, M., Waiter, G. D., Semple, S. I. K., Redpath, T. W., Al-Mohammad, A., Norton, M., Metcalfe, M. J., Walton, S.
    European Heart Journal, vol. 27, no. Suppl., pp. 415-416
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Blood oxygen level-dependent magnetic resonance imaging in patients with dypiridamole induced ischemia

    Egred, M., Waiter, G. D., Redpath, T. W., Semple, S., Al-Mahammad, A., Norton, M., Metcalfe, M., Walton, S.
    Heart, vol. 92
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Neural mechanisms of imitation and ‘mirror neuron’ functioning in autistic spectrum disorder

    Williams, J. H. G., Waiter, G. D., Gilchrist, A., Perrett, D. I., Murray, A. D., Whiten, A.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 610-621
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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