Overview
Background
Dr. Nasrallah is a neuroscientist with a background in magnetic resonance and interdisciplinary brain research. She graduated with a PhD in neurochemistry and NMR from the Neuroscience Research Australia Institute (NeurRA) at the University of New South Wales in 2009. In April 2009, She spent 3 years at the Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (A*STAR) where she pioneered the use of magnetic resonance imaging as a tool in cognitive brain research in the rodent. In 2013, she was appointed as senior research fellow at the Clinical Imaging Research Center where she delved into the clinical realms of human imaging. In late 2015, she returned to Australia as a Motor Accident and Injury Commission fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at the University of Queensland (UQ) where she independently heads her own group. Her research spans basic and clinical brain research with the the overall aim of understanding how the brain functions in health and injury, specifically, developing methods for early diagnosis of primary biomarkers following injury and translating these findings.
Availability
- Associate Professor Fatima Nasrallah is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Research interests
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Traumatic Brain Injury
The development of translational imaging methods for the early diagnosis of brain function and prediction of patient outcome.
Research impacts
Through her work, she has established herself as one of the world experts in the area of functional brain imaging in rodent models. Her most significant contribution was made in 2014 when she demonstrated for the first time, imaging resting state functional connectivity in the mouse brain using MRI. This has made a major impact to the field especially the potential to translate such a technique in human to mouse models. This work was published in the prestigious Neuroimage journal. More impactful was the discovery that these resting state networks could detect cognition in the rat brain after a spatial learning memory task, which was also published in Neuroimage. A major contribution to the field is applying these MRI methods for clinical applications of injury and stroke. She is now leading a nationwide multicenter trial in patients with traumatic brain injury with the hope of using advanced neuroimaging methods to improve patient outcomes.
Works
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2019
Conference Publication
Quantitative susceptibility mapping for routine clinical use – an inline automated QSM reconstruction pipeline
Stewart, Ashley, O'Brien, Kieran, Kim, Jinsuh, Maréchal, Bénédicte, Nasrallah, Fatima, Kean, Michael, Barth, Markus and Bollmann, Steffen (2019). Quantitative susceptibility mapping for routine clinical use – an inline automated QSM reconstruction pipeline. ISMRM 2019, Montreal, Canada, 11-16 May 2019. Concord, CA United States: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
2019
Journal Article
Response to the letter concerning the publication: Amyloid pathology fingerprint differentiates post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. Mohamed AZ, et al. NeuroImage Clinical 2018 June 5;19:716–726
Mohamed, Abdalla Z., Cumming, Paul and Nasrallah, Fatima (2019). Response to the letter concerning the publication: Amyloid pathology fingerprint differentiates post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. Mohamed AZ, et al. NeuroImage Clinical 2018 June 5;19:716–726. NeuroImage: Clinical, 23 101867, 101867. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101867
2019
Journal Article
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging unveils the spatiotemporal microstructural gray matter changes following injury in the rodent brain
Soni, Neha, Mohamed, Abdalla Z., Kurniawan, Nyoman D., Borges, Karin and Nasrallah, Fatima (2019). Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging unveils the spatiotemporal microstructural gray matter changes following injury in the rodent brain. Journal of Neurotrauma, 36 (8), 1306-1317. doi: 10.1089/neu.2018.5972
2019
Journal Article
Editorial: Neuroscientific research for management of dementia
Kamal, Mohammad A. and Nasrallah, Fatima A. (2019). Editorial: Neuroscientific research for management of dementia. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 11 31, 31. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2019.00031
2019
Journal Article
Evaluation of nuisance removal for functional MRI of rodent brain
Chuang, Kai-Hsiang, Lee, Hsu-Lei, Li, Zengmin, Chang, Wei-Tang, Nasrallah, Fatima A., Yeow, Ling Yun and Singh, Kavita Kaur D./O.Ranjit (2019). Evaluation of nuisance removal for functional MRI of rodent brain. NeuroImage, 188, 694-709. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.048
2019
Conference Publication
Fluorinated benzimidazole sulfones as candidate radioligands for CB2 PET-imaging
Kallinen, Annukka, Boyd, Rochelle, Lane, Samuel, Bhalla, Rajiv, Mardon, Karine, Stimson, Damion, Cowin, Gary, Nasrallah, Fatima, Werry, Eryn, Connor, Mark and Kassiou, Michael (2019). Fluorinated benzimidazole sulfones as candidate radioligands for CB2 PET-imaging. 23rd International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences (ISRS 2019), Beijing, China, 26-31 May 2019. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons.
2019
Journal Article
Altered motor and motor perceptual cognitive imagery task-related activation in diabetic peripheral neuropathy: insights from functional MRI
Venkataraman, Kavita, Pun, Vivian, Mohamed, Abdalla Z., Luo, Miyang, Wong, Caroline, Zong, Fangrong, Khoo, Eric Y.H., Tai, E. Shyong and Nasrallah, Fatima (2019). Altered motor and motor perceptual cognitive imagery task-related activation in diabetic peripheral neuropathy: insights from functional MRI. Diabetes Care, 42 (10), 2004-2007. doi: 10.2337/dc19-0746
2019
Conference Publication
Altered motor and motor imagery task related activation in diabetic peripheral neuropathy: insights from functional magnetic resonance imaging
Venkataraman, K., Pun, V., Mohamed, A. Z., Luo, M., Wong, C., Zong, F., Khoo, E. Y. H., Tai, E. S. and Nasrallah, F. (2019). Altered motor and motor imagery task related activation in diabetic peripheral neuropathy: insights from functional magnetic resonance imaging. 55th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), Barcelona, Spain, 16-20 September, 2019. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
2019
Journal Article
Tauopathy in veterans with long-term posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury
Mohamed, Abdalla Z., Cumming, Paul, Götz, Jürgen and Nasrallah, Fatima (2019). Tauopathy in veterans with long-term posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 46 (5), 1139-1151. doi: 10.1007/s00259-018-4241-7
2019
Journal Article
Corrigendum to ‘Amyloid pathology fingerprint differentiates post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury’ NeuroImage: CLINICAL. 19 (2018) 716–726 (NeuroImage: Clinical (2018) 19 (716–726), (S2213158218301621), (10.1016/j.nicl.2018.05.016))
Mohamed, Abdalla Z., Cumming, Paul, Srour, Hussein, Gunasena, Tamara, Uchida, Aya, Haller, Courtney Nicole and Nasrallah, Fatima (2019). Corrigendum to ‘Amyloid pathology fingerprint differentiates post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury’ NeuroImage: CLINICAL. 19 (2018) 716–726 (NeuroImage: Clinical (2018) 19 (716–726), (S2213158218301621), (10.1016/j.nicl.2018.05.016)). NeuroImage: Clinical, 22 101829, 101829. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101829
2018
Journal Article
Amyloid pathology fingerprint differentiates post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury
Mohamed, Abdalla Z., Cumming, Paul, Srour, Hussein, Gunasena, Tamara, Uchida, Aya, Haller, Courtney Nicole, Nasrallah, Fatima and Department of Defense Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (2018). Amyloid pathology fingerprint differentiates post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. NeuroImage: Clinical, 19 101829, 716-726. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.05.016
2018
Journal Article
Correction: Design and preliminary feasibility study of a soft robotic glove for hand function assistance in stroke survivors
Yap, Hong Kai, Lim, Jeong Hoon, Nasrallah, Fatima and Yeow, Chen-Hua (2018). Correction: Design and preliminary feasibility study of a soft robotic glove for hand function assistance in stroke survivors. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12 (MAY) 323, 323. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00323
2018
Conference Publication
Differential amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in brain networks after BCI training with and without tDCS in stroke
Hu, Mengjiao, Ji, Fang, Lu, Zhongkang, Huang, Weimin, Khosrowabadi, Reza, Zhao, Ling, Ang, Kai Keng, Phua, Kok Soon, Nasrallah, Fatima Ali, Chuang, Kai-Hsiang, Stephenson, Mary C, Totman, John, Jiang, Xudong, Chew, Effie, Guan, Cuntai and Zhou, Juan (2018). Differential amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in brain networks after BCI training with and without tDCS in stroke. 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, HI, United States, 18-21 July 2018. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512395
2018
Journal Article
Multimodal analysis of aged wild-type mice exposed to repeated scanning ultrasound treatments demonstrates long-term safety
Blackmore, Daniel G., Turpin, Fabrice, Mohamed, Abdalla Z., Zong, Fangrong, Pandit, Rucha, Pelekanos, Matthew, Nasrallah, Fatima, Sah, Pankaj, Bartlett, Perry F. and Gotz, Juergen (2018). Multimodal analysis of aged wild-type mice exposed to repeated scanning ultrasound treatments demonstrates long-term safety. Theranostics, 8 (22), 6233-6247. doi: 10.7150/thno.27941
2017
Journal Article
Design and Preliminary Feasibility Study of a Soft Robotic Glove for Hand Function Assistance in Stroke Survivors
Yap, Hong Kai, Lim, Jeong Noon, Nasrallah, Fatima and Yeow, Chen-Hua (2017). Design and Preliminary Feasibility Study of a Soft Robotic Glove for Hand Function Assistance in Stroke Survivors. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11 (OCT) 547, 547. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00547
2017
Journal Article
Functional networks and network perturbations in rodents
Chuang, Kai-Hsiang and Nasrallah, Fatima A. (2017). Functional networks and network perturbations in rodents. Neuroimage, 163, 419-436. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.09.038
2017
Journal Article
Brain plasticity following MI-BCI training combined with tDCS in a randomized trial in chronic subcortical stroke subjects: a preliminary study
Hong, Xin, Lu, Zhong Kang , Teh, Irvin , Nasrallah, Fatima Ali , Teo, Wei Peng , Ang, Kai Keng , Phua, Kok Soon , Guan, Cuntai , Chew, Efe and Chuang, Kai-Hsiang (2017). Brain plasticity following MI-BCI training combined with tDCS in a randomized trial in chronic subcortical stroke subjects: a preliminary study. Scientific Reports, 7 (1) 9222, 9222. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-08928-5
2017
Journal Article
GABAergic effect on resting-state functional connectivity: dynamics under pharmacological antagonism
Nasrallah, Fatima A., Singh, Kavita Kaur D./O. Ranjit, Yeow, Ling Yun and Chuang, Kai-Hsiang (2017). GABAergic effect on resting-state functional connectivity: dynamics under pharmacological antagonism. NeuroImage, 149, 53-62. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.040
2016
Journal Article
Toluene inhalation in adolescent rats reduces flexible behaviour in adulthood and alters glutamatergic and GABAergic signalling
Furlong, Teri M., Duncan, Jhodie R., Corbit, Laura H., Rae, Caroline D., Rowlands, Benjamin D., Maher, Anthony D., Nasrallah, Fatima A., Milligan, Carol J., Petrou, Steven, Lawrence, Andrew J. and Balleine, Bernard W. (2016). Toluene inhalation in adolescent rats reduces flexible behaviour in adulthood and alters glutamatergic and GABAergic signalling. Journal of Neurochemistry, 139 (5), 806-822. doi: 10.1111/jnc.13858
2016
Journal Article
A magnetic resonance compatible soft wearable robotic glove for hand rehabilitation and brain imaging
Yap, Hong, Kamaldin, Nazir, Lim, Jeong, Nasrallah, Fatima, Goh, James Cho Hong and Yeow, Chen-Hua (2016). A magnetic resonance compatible soft wearable robotic glove for hand rehabilitation and brain imaging. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25 (99), 782-793. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2602941
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Development of a model for prognostication of patient outcome following traumatic brain injury
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Shakes Chandra
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Doctor Philosophy
The development of precision medical care for the use of ketamine as a treatment for Australian Veterans with TRD and PTSD
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Susannah Tye
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Doctor Philosophy
Structural and Functional changes in aged hippocampus following exercise as detected by MRI
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Investigating therapeutic interventions following concussion
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Karen Barlow
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Doctor Philosophy
Development of precision medicine biomarkers for ketamine as a treatment for TRD and PTSD
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Susannah Tye
Completed supervision
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Neuroimaging of Traumatic Brain Injury and Dementia: Bridging the link
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Peter Nestor
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Application of Magnetic Resonance methods for the in vivo imaging of a mouse model of concussion
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Viktor Vegh
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Magnetic Resonance Imaging reveals underlying pathology associated with traumatic brain injury in a tau transgenic mouse model
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Karin Borges
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2018
Master Philosophy
Defining key structural and functional changes in the adult brain in a mouse model of depression
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dhanisha Jhaveri
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