MISC Lab

University of Manchester, UK

Publications


Cerebrovascular health impacts processing speed through anterior white matter alterations: a UK biobank study


Katie L. Moran, Craig J. Smith, E. McManus, Stuart M. Allan, D. Montaldi, N. Muhlert

Scientific Reports, 2025


Quantitative Grey/White Matter Myelin differences in Neurofibromatosis Type-1 using T1W/T2W ratio


Varun Arunachalam Chandran, C. Lea-Carnall, Stavros Stivaros, Grace Vassallo, Nils Muhlert, S. Garg, PhD Varun Arunachalam Chandran

medRxiv, 2025


Thalamic Network Controllability Predicts Cognitive Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis


Yuping Yang, A. Woollams, Ilona Lipp, Z. Zhuo, M. C. Litwińczuk, Valentina Tomassini, Yaou Liu, N. Trujillo-Barreto, N. Muhlert

bioRxiv, 2025


Information Shielding Through Neural Deactivation: A Fundamental Mechanism of Human Information Processing


Zhenhong He, Yifan Du, Ziqi Fu, Youcun Zheng, Nils Muhlert, Barbara Sahakian, Rebecca Elliott

bioRxiv, 2025


Dynamic Neural Deactivation Bridges Direct and Competitive Inhibition Processes.


Zhenhong He, Yifan Du, Ziqi Fu, Youcun Zheng, Nils Muhlert, Barbara Sahakian, Rebecca Elliott

Advancement of science, 2025


Hippocampal and limbic microstructure changes associated with stress across the lifespan: a UK biobank study


Elizabeth McManus, H. Haroon, Niall W Duncan, Rebecca Elliott, Nils Muhlert

Scientific Reports, 2024


Noradrenergic alterations associated with early life stress


Megan Sheppard, J. Rasgado-Toledo, Niall W Duncan, Rebecca Elliott, Eduardo A. Garza-Villarreal, Nils Muhlert

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024


Using graph theory as a common language to combine neural structure and function in models of healthy cognitive performance


Marta Czime Litwińczuk, Nils Muhlert, Nelson Trujillo‐Barreto, Anna Woollams

Human Brain Mapping, 2023


Loneliness is related to smaller gray matter volumes in ACC and right VLPFC in people with major depression: a UK biobank study.


Zhenhong He, Youcun Zheng, Jingxuan Ni, Jin Huang, Qingqing Pang, Tongtong Chen, Nils Muhlert, Rebecca Elliott

Cerebral Cortex, 2023


The effects of psychosocial stress on item, cued‐pair and emotional memory


Elizabeth McManus, Deborah Talmi, Hamied Haroon, Nils Muhlert

European Journal of Neuroscience, 2022


Psychosocial stress has weaker than expected effects on episodic memory and related cognitive abilities: A meta-analysis


Elizabeth McManus, Deborah Talmi, Hamied Haroon, Nils Muhlert

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022


The effects of stress across the lifespan on the brain, cognition and mental health: A UK biobank study


Elizabeth McManus, Hamied Haroon, Niall W. Duncan, Rebecca Elliott, Nils Muhlert

Neurobiology of Stress, 2022


Relating cognition to both brain structure and function: A systematic review of methods


Marta Czime Litwińczuk, Nelson Trujillo-Barreto, Nils Muhlert, Lauren Cloutman, Anna Woollams

Brain Connectivity, 2022


Combination of structural and functional connectivity explains unique variation in specific domains of cognitive function


Marta Czime Litwińczuk, Nils Muhlert, Lauren Cloutman, Nelson Trujillo-Barreto, Anna Woollams

NeuroImage, 2022


Relating Cognition to both Brain Structure and Function: A Systematic Review of Methods


M. C. Litwińczuk, N. Trujillo-Barreto, N. Muhlert, Lauren L. Cloutman, A. Woollams

Brain Connectivity, 2022


Mechanisms of Network Changes in Cognitive Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis


D. Jandric, I. Lipp, D. Paling, D. Rog, G. Castellazzi, H. Haroon, L. Parkes, G. Parker, V. Tomassini, N. Muhlert

Neurology, 2021