Melanie Morrison, PhD, is an assistant professor in residence in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF, and a core member of the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint PhD Program in Bioengineering. With her team in the new Neuromodulation Lab, she researches imaging techniques with the potential to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Dr. Morrison and her collaborators use MRI and other advanced imaging techniques to improve neuromodulation therapies for patients with neuropsychiatric conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This neuromodulation technique called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) uses an implant that delivers electrical current to targeted brain areas to restore function. Dr. Morrison and her colleagues extract quantitative information from brain MRI images to study and predict patients’ neural and clinical…
