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Transient haemodynamic events in neurologically compromised infants: a simultaneous EEG and diffuse optical imaging study.

This reports the important discovery of previously unknown transient haemodynamic events occurring in the brains of newborn infants diagnosed with seizures. Using a combination of optical imaging and EEG, profound changes in cortical oxygenation were observed, unaccompanied by other evidence of seizures. A possibility exists that the events may be a cause and not just a symptom of brain damage. I am head of group and intellectual lead of the project. This work earned the first author, my PhD student, the UCL Young Investigator in Neuroimaging Award 2011. Follow-up studies are funded by EPSRC (£900K) and Action Medical Research (£131K).