The Cognition and Consciousness Imaging Group (CCIG), headed by Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis, is part of the Division of Anaesthesia and Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge.

Our interdisciplinary research aims to answer neuroscientific questions on the neural mechanisms underlying conscious and unconscious states. This includes work on brain network adaptive behaviours triggered by pharmacological agents (anaesthetics), trauma or gradual structural changes (e.g. neuropsychiatric/neurodegenerative diseases).

Research themes:

• • Neurobiology of consciousness: Anaesthesia, Disorders of Consciousness, Psychedelics

  • Neuromodulatory effects of brainstem nuclei on large scale cortical networks

  • Neurobiology of traumatic brain injury 

  • Ultra-High-Field MR neuroimaging

  • Artificial intelligence in neuroscience 

  • Neuroimaging genetics 

  • Computational cognitive neuroscience 

  • Brain dynamics and complexity 

  • Functional/structural architecture in health and disease

  • Neurobiology of language comprehension