Heidi Johansen-Berg is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford.
12 Facts About Heidi Johansen-Berg
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Heidi Johansen-Berg later received an undergraduate degree in experimental psychology and philosophy from St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford, where she is a fellow.
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Heidi Johansen-Berg then stayed at Oxford to complete a 4-year DPhil in Neuroscience funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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Heidi Johansen-Berg was born in Liverpool UK in 1974 from parents John and Joan Johansen-Berg.
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Heidi Johansen-Berg has 2 brothers - Mark and Jake Johansen-Berg, and is married to Matthew Rushworth with whom they have two daughters.
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In 2016 Heidi Johansen-Berg received a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship to support her work on neuroplasticity.
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Heidi Johansen-Berg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.
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Heidi Johansen-Berg has contributed to understanding of how stroke impacts the human brain and what rehabilitation strategies can help stroke patients.
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Heidi Johansen-Berg published one of the first longitudinal fMRI stroke rehabilitation studies, showing that successful outcomes are associated with increased recruitment of specific motor areas.
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Heidi Johansen-Berg made early contributions to methods for tracing white matter pathways in the brain based on diffusion MRI, in particular developing the concept of a 'connectivity fingerprint' to parcellate neighbouring brain areas based upon their connections to other brain regions.
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Heidi Johansen-Berg has been influential in the implementation of these methods in the FMRIB Software Library.
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Heidi Johansen-Berg's group provided the first demonstration of white matter plasticity in the human brain; more recently, she has investigated the microstructural basis of this plasticity in rodent models.