The UEA Wellcome-Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre (UWWBIC) is an interdisciplinary centre for neuroimaging excellence.

We provide crucial brain imaging research facilities that significantly boost research capacity and quality at UEA and across the Anglian region.

Our research-dedicated MRI facilities and integrated imaging technologies are used by over 70 scientists from the UEA Schools of Psychology, Medicine and Health Sciences, and external researchers from across the region.

UEA’s research projects are split across these five themes:

• Methods and Modelling
• Developmental Dynamics
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Brain Plasticity
• Healthy Ageing and Dementia

Our research profile across this range of disciplines places the UEA in a unique position to answer fundamental questions about how the human brain works and how it is affected by disease.

Left to right: Jon Brooks (Head of MRI) Guest speakers: Professor Neil Burgess, (UCL) Dr Tom Okell (University of Oxford), Dr Marta Correia (University of Cambridge) and Will Penny (UWWBIC Director)

The UWWBIC Symposium took place on 13th September 2022.

It was attended by visiting academics from the University of Essex and guests from the Norfolk and Norwich Univesity Hospital, as well as many UEA staff. ​

Guest speakers were:

Dr Tom Okell, Oxford University.

Talk title: Measuring Blood Flow in the Human Brain: Methods and Applications

Dr Marta Correia, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

Talk title: Prospective motion correction for high resolution fMRI at 3T and 7T

Professor Neil Burgess, UCL.

Talk title: Space in the brain: how the hippocampal formation supports spatial cognition

Will Penny and Jon Brooks gave tours of the centre before and after the talks