Dr Ngoc Jade Thai

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Education

• PhD (1999-2003) University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  PhD thesis title: Neural substrates of visual object recognition a functional MRI approach.
  

Career History

• 2004 –Present: Aston University Birmingham UK
• 2003- 2004: University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, Position: Cognitive Neuroscience Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Primary Research Interests

• Clinical Applications of Functional neuroimaging
• Applications of fMRI & EEG/MEG to understanding neurodevelopment
• Neural substrates of Language and memory function and development
• Frontal lobe function and dysfunction in developmental disorders & Mental health
• Neural dynamics of  Visual and Auditory  perception
• Multimodal imaging of the physiological relationships between EEG/MEG & fMRI measured signals

Selected Publications

• Thai N. J., Brazzo, D., Furlong, P.L., & Seri S. (2010) Neuroimaging studies of connectivity in epileptic neural networks. Frontiers Computational Neuroscience (in press)
  
  
• Thai N. J., Longe, O., Rippon G, (2009) Disconnected brains: What is the role of fMRI in connectivity research? International Journal of Psychophysiology, 73(1):27-32
  
  
• Thai, N. J., & Talcott, J, B. (2009) Considerations for paediatric neuroimaging at the translational coalface The American Journal of Bioethics 9(1):18-20.
  
  
• Seri, S, Thai, N. J., Brazzo, D, Pisani, F, Cerquiglini, A. (2009) Neurophysiology of CSWS associated cognitive dysfunction,  Epilepsia.  Vol. 50 (S) 7:33-6
  
  
• Fisher, A. E., Furlong, P. L., Seri, S., Adjamian, P., Witton, C., Baldeweg, T., Phillips, S., Walsh, R., Houghton, J.M., Thai N. J. (2008) Interhemispheric differences of spectral power in expressive language: A MEG study with clinical applications. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 68:111-122
  
  
• Parris, B. A., Thai, N. J., Benattayallah, A, Summers, I. R., & Hodgson, T.L. (2007) The role of the lateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate in stimulus-response association reversals. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(1):13-24
  
  
• Seri, S., Pisani, F, Thai N. J., Cerquiglini, A. (2007) Pre-attentive auditory sensory processing in autistic spectrum disorder. measurements telling us a coherent story? International Journal of Psychophysiology, 63 159–163