About
Phoebe Imms is a neuropsychology researcher with experience studying dementia, traumatic brain injury, and mental health. Her focus is on neuroimaging biomarkers, spanning mathematical (brain networks and graph theory) and computational (machine-learning measures of brain age) approaches. She has profiled neurocognitive deficits in chronic traumatic brain injury using structural brain networks, studied the neurological basis of brain injury and dementia, and predicted cognitive impairment in healthy older adults.
At QIMR Berghofer, Dr. Imms researches the genetic architecture of neurological systemic integrity and how neuroimaging markers of brain health can improve the prognosis of age-related diseases. She has received two grants early in her research career from the Center on Biodemography and Population Health at the University of Southern California (a Pilot Project award and a T32 postdoctoral research scholarship).
Area of Interest
- Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease
- Traumatic brain injury
- Cognitive impairment
- Tractography and structural brain networks
- Neuroimaging-derived measures of brain age
- Cross-cultural comparisons of ageing
- Genetic architecture of brain systemic integrity
- Graph theory and network analysis