M Rushworth
Research Areas
Medical Sciences Division Themes
- Neuroscience
Neuroscience Sub-Themes
Neuroscience Keywords
- Affective Neuroscience
- Associative Learning
- Attention
- Autism
- Behaviour
- Brain
- Cognition
- fMRI
- Executive Function
- Frontal Lobe
- Prefrontal Cortex
Techniques and Equipment
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Department of Experimental Psychology
Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain |
The control of action, planning, and decision making. The spatial organization of limb movement. Functional organization of the parietal cortex in human and other primates. Functional organization of the medial frontal and cingulate cortices in rat, monkey, and human brain. Neuropsychological investigation of the effects of central nervous system lesions. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and tractography. Some published work using event related potential (ERP) recording.
Biography
My first degree was in Experimental Psychology at Oxford (1987-1990). I decided to stay in Oxford in order to study for a doctoral degree with Dick Passingham (1990-1994) on the parietal cortex and a neurological movement disorder called apraxia. Afterwards I carried on working in the same lab as a post-doctoral researcher. I was involved in a number of collaborative projects using positron emission tomography to investigate parietal and Broca’s area cortices at the Functional Imaging Laboratory, London, looking at the premotor cortex with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) at the Radcliffe Infirmary and at the Human Movement and Balance Unit in London (with Kerry Mills and John Rothwell), and event related potential (ERP) recording (with Kia Nobre in Oxford). I then worked on a project with Tomas Paus at the Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University in Canada in which we tried to combine TMS and functional magnetic resonace imaging (fMRI) to investigate the role of the medial frontal cortex in task switching. I now spend most of my working week at the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB) in Oxford. My main research interests are the parietal, frontal, and cingulate regions of the brain and the role that they play in making decisions and controlling movement.
Awards Training and Qualifications
- 1987- 1990 BA, University of Oxford
- 1990- 1994 DPhil, University of Oxford
Selected Publications
- Rudebeck P H, Buckley M J, Walton M E, and Rushworth M FS (2006) A role for the macaque anterior cingulate gyrus in social valuation. Science, 313(5791):1310-2.
- Croxson Paula L, Johansen-Berg Heidi, Behrens Timothy EJ, Robson Matthew D, Pinsk Mark A, Gross Charles G, Richter Wolfgang, Richter Marlene C, Kastner Sabine, and Rushworth Matthew FS (2005) Quantitative investigation of connections of the prefrontal cortex in the human and macaque using probabilistic diffusion tractography. J Neurosci, 25(39):8854-66.
- Rushworth M F, Ellison A, and Walsh V (2001) Complementary localization and lateralization of orienting and motor attention. Nat Neurosci, 4(6):656-61.
- Rushworth M F, Paus T, and Sipila P K (2001) Attention systems and the organization of the human parietal cortex. J Neurosci, 21(14):5262-71.
