2013 Young Investigator Grant
Vanessa L. Cropley, Ph.D.
Vanessa L. Cropley, Ph.D.
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Vanessa L. Cropley, Ph.D.
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University of Melbourne, Australia
BBRF Awards & Recognition
2013 Young Investigator Grant
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Dr. Vanessa Cropley completed her Honours and PhD at the Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University. Her PhD thesis investigated the striatal and extrastriatal dopamine system and its association with frontostriatal cognitive function in healthy subjects and individuals with Parkinson’s disease using the molecular imaging technique, positron emission tomography (PET). She conducted these studies at the Molecular Imaging Branch within the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, NIH). Dr Cropley joined Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre in 2011 as an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow and head of the Translational Neurobiology group within the Psychosis Studies stream. Her research focuses on investigating neuroimaging and neurobiological markers associated with clinical, functional and cognitive outcomes in schizophrenia and psychosis using a multi-modal and longitudinal approach. To do this she uses brain imaging (for structure, function and molecular processes), cognitive and clinical assessment, and measures derived from blood and cerebrospinal fluid (e.g. immune factors) across a broad spectrum of disease risk, including subclinical psychosis, and individuals at the early and established stages of psychotic illness.
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