Alex Leow, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Mentor, Biophysics, Bioinformatics and Computational Science
Department of Psychiatry
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Dr. Leow earned a doctoral degree in applied mathematics and a medical board certification in adult psychiatry. Her research efforts have included both the development of computational neuroimaging methods as well as their translational applications. In addition, clinically she has personally evaluated, diagnosed, treated, and followed thousands of individuals with complex neuropsychiatric conditions. Research at her lab pursues innovative brain imaging in Alzheimer's disease patients and mouse models, continuing her pioneering work within the Collaborative Neuroimaging Environment for Connectomics (CoNECt). To this end, Dr. Leow collaborates with data scientists to further develop novel methods to mine and visualize meaningful spatiotemporal patterns of multimodal brain connectomes in normal ageing vs. neurodegenerative disorders. For visualization, Dr. Leow plans to further develop her BRAINtrinsic technology, a publicly available web-based portable virtual reality environment that enables scientists to explore complex dynamic multi-modal connectome data. Currently, BRAINtrinsic is already fully compatible with Head Mounted Displays such as Oculus Rift (both DK1 and DK2 as well as the latest consumer release).