Prof David Reutens - Director

Prof David Reutens
Prof David Reutens

Contact Details

Centre for Advanced Imaging
Building 60
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD, 4072
Email: pa@cai.uq.edu.au (Personal Assistant)
Telephone: (+61) 7 3365 4237 (Personal Assistant)
Fax: (+61) 7 3365 3833
 

David Reutens' Research Group

  •  Group leader

    Prof David Reutens, MBBS, MD, FRACP

     
  • Research Fellows
  • Research Assistants

Professor Reutens was appointed as the inaugural director of the CAI in 2008. Prior to that he was the Professor of Neuroscience at Monash University and Director of Neurology at Southern Health. He is also a clinical neurologist specializing in epilepsy and is a senior staff specialist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. He directs the Australian Mouse Brain Mapping Consortium.
Professor Reutens’ research involves the combination of imaging techniques such as MRI, EEG, transcranial magnetic stimulation and PET to study functions such as memory in the healthy brain, the mechanisms behind diseases such as epilepsy and stroke and how the brain responds to overcome injury. Some of the research studies involve patients with injuries or genetic mutations that affect brain function – these studies are able to provide privileged insights into how the brain works. With his collaborators, he uses imaging to study animal models of disease. Members of his group are working on ways of improving imaging technology such as the development of new diagnostic agents and new mapping methods that may improve the safety of brain surgery.
 

Recent major grants

  • 2007-2011 NHMRC Enabling Grant, Grant No: 436673. “Australian Mouse Brain Mapping Consortium”
  • 2011-2015 NHMRC Program Grant, Grant No: 628952, “Neurobiology of human epilepsy: Genes, cellular mechanisms, networks and whole brain”
  • 2010 ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities, Grant No: LE100100074. “Facilities for automated high-throughput slide scanning and stereology“
  • 2010-2014 NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship Grant No: 631352

Potential PhD Projects

There are several opportunities for prospective PhD and post-doctoral students in this laboratory. Please contact Professor Reutens for details.

Key Publications

  • Phan TG, Chen J, Donnan G, Srikanth V, Wood A, Reutens DC. Development of a new tool to correlate stroke outcome with infarct topography: a proof of concept study. Neuroimage 2010 Jan 1;49(1):127-33.
  • Srikanth V, Phan TG, Chen J, Beare R, Stapleton JM, Reutens DC. The location of white matter lesions and gait– a voxel-based study. Ann Neurol 2010 Feb;67(2):265-9.
  • Weintrob DL, Saling MM, Berkovic SF, Berlangieri SU, Reutens DC. Verbal memory in left temporal lobe epilepsy: Evidence for task-related localization. Ann Neurol 2002; 51: 442-447.
  • Glikmann-Johnston Y, Saling MM, Chen J, Cooper KA, Beare RJ, Reutens DC. Structural and functional correlates of unilateral mesial temporal lobe spatial memory impairment. Brain 2008 Nov;131(Pt 11):3006-18.
  • Fedi M, Berkovic SF, Marini C, Mulligan R, Tochon-Danguy H, Reutens DC. GABAA receptor mutation causing generalized epilepsy reduces benzodiazepine receptor binding. Neuroimage. 2006 Sep;32(3):995-1000.
  • Weintrob DL, Saling MM, Berkovic SF, Reutens DC. Impaired verbal associative learning after resection of left perirhinal cortex. Brain 2007;130(Pt 5):1423-31.
  • Fedi M, Berkovic SF, Macdonell RAL, Curatolo JM, Marini C, Reutens DC. Intracortical hyperexcitability in humans with a GABAA receptor mutation. Cereb Cortex 2008;18:664-9.
  • Reutens DC, Berkovic SF, Macdonell RA, Bladin PF. Magnetic stimulation of the brain in generalized epilepsy: reversal of cortical hyperexcitability by anticonvulsants. Ann Neurol 1993;34:351-5.
  • Martens MA, Wilson SJ, Dudgeon P, Reutens DC. Hypersociability and the amygdala: Insights from Williams Syndrome. Neuropsychologia 2009 Oct;47(12):2446-53.

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