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Dr Danai Dima

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School of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Psychology

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  • +44 (0)20 7040 0125
  • danai.dima@city.ac.uk

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Dr Danai Dima D206, Rhind Building
City, University of London
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London EC1V 0HB
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About

Overview

Dr. Dima received her Psychology degree from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece in 2003. She trained in Neuropsychology at the Hospital ‘Aiginiteio’, University of Athens. Following this, she completed a Masters Degree in Integrative Neuroscience at Imperial College London, UK. She was then awarded a Marie Curie Early Stage Training Fellowship for her PhD studies in Neuroscience which she completed at the Medical School Hannover, Germany in 2009. During her PhD she also trained at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK.

Before taking up a permanent faculty position at City University London, Dr. Dima was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London, UK.

Teaching

BSc Year 1

PS1009 Psychology at City

BSc Year 2

PS2004 Biological Psychology

Research

Dr Dima's research focuses on the study of cognition and psychosis, mainly employing neuroimaging methods and connectivity analyses in combination with genetics. Dr. Dima also co-chairs the Lifespan Working Group nested within the ENIGMA initiative.

PhD supervision

Dr Dima would welcome enquiries from potential PhD students.

Publications

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Conference papers and proceedings (9)

  1. Frangou, S., Modabbernia, A., Doucet, G., Moser, D. and Dima, D. (2019). 85. Cortical Thickness and Subcortical Volume Trajectories Across the Lifespan: Data From 14,600 Healthy Individuals Aged 6-90 Years.
  2. Riaz, A., Asad, M., Arif, S.M.M.R.A., Alonso, E., Dima, D., Corr, P. … Slabaugh, G. (2018). Deep fMRI: AN end-to-end deep network for classification of fMRI data.
  3. Dima, D., de Jong, S., Breen, G., Lewis, C., Frangou, S. and Powell, T. (2018). F132. The Effect of Telomere Length and Their Polygenic Risk Scores on Emotional Brain Function and Connectivity.
  4. Anagnostopoulou, N., Alba, A., Gaete, J., Dima, D. and Kyriakopoulos, M. (2018). Prevalence of psychotic symptoms in children needing inpatient care: Relationship to diagnosis.
  5. Zhu, D., Riedel, B.C., Jahanshad, N., Groenewold, N.A., Stein, D.J., Gotlib, I.H. … Thompson, P.M. (2017). Classification of major depressive disorder via multi-site weighted LASSO model.
  6. Riaz, A., Asad, M., Al-Arif, S.M.M.R., Alonso, E., Dima, D., Corr, P. … Slabaugh, G. (2017). FCNet: A convolutional neural network for calculating functional connectivity from functional MRI.
  7. Zhu, D., Riedel, B.C., Jahanshad, N., Groenewold, N.A., Stein, D.J., Gotlib, I.H. … Thompson, P.M. (2017). Classification of Major Depressive Disorder via Multi-site Weighted LASSO Model.
  8. Frangou, S., Dima, D. and Grp, E.N.I.G.M.A.L.W. (2016). Brain Morphological Changes Across the Lifespan.
  9. Frangou, S., Dima, D. and Grp, E.N.I.G.M.A.L.W. (2016). Age-related Changes in Subcortical Volumes in Healthy Individuals Aged 2-92 Years: Brain Region Specific Growth Curves.

Internet publication

  1. Dima, D., Young, D. and Duggan, M. (2017). Three reasons to think twice about mapping the brain. The Conversation.

Journal articles (64)

  1. Galitzer, H., Anagnostopoulou, N., Alba, A., Gaete, J., Dima, D. and Kyriakopoulos, M. (2021). Functional outcomes and patient satisfaction following inpatient treatment for childhood-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders vs non-psychotic disorders in children in the United Kingdom. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 15(2), pp. 412–419. doi:10.1111/eip.12973.
  2. Patel, Y., Parker, N., Shin, J., Howard, D., French, L., Thomopoulos, S.I. … Guerrero-Pedraza, A. (2021). Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders. JAMA Psychiatry, 78(1), pp. 47–63. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.2694.
  3. Turkheimer, F.E., Althubaity, N., Schubert, J., Nettis, M.A., Cousins, O., Dima, D. … Veronese, M. (2021). Increased serum peripheral C-reactive protein is associated with reduced brain barriers permeability of TSPO radioligands in healthy volunteers and depressed patients: implications for inflammation and depression. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 91, pp. 487–497. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2020.10.025.
  4. Khachatoorian, N., Loveday, C., Dima, D., Mair, A., Illingworth, S., Conway, M.A. … Haenschel, C. (2021). A behavioural and ERP investigation of the wearable camera photo review in autobiographical memory. Memory, 29(2), pp. 224–233. doi:10.1080/09658211.2021.1880601.
  5. Ioakeimidis, V., Khachatoorian, N., Haenschel, C., Papathomas, T.A., Farkas, A., Kyriakopoulos, M. … Dima, D. (2021). State anxiety influences P300 and P600 event-related potentials over parietal regions in the hollow-mask illusion experiment. Personality Neuroscience, 4. doi:10.1017/pen.2020.16.
  6. Dima, D., Modabbernia, A., Papachristou, E., Doucet, G.E., Agartz, I., Aghajani, M. … Klein, M. (2021). Subcortical volumes across the lifespan: Data from 18,605 healthy individuals aged 3–90 years. Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.1002/hbm.25320.
  7. Frangou, S., Modabbernia, A., Williams, S.C.R., Papachristou, E., Doucet, G.E., Agartz, I. … Kanai, R. (2021). Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3–90 years. Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.1002/hbm.25364.
  8. Thompson, P.M., Jahanshad, N., Ching, C.R.K., Salminen, L.E., Thomopoulos, S.I., Bright, J. … Francks, C. (2020). ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries. Translational Psychiatry, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41398-020-0705-1.
  9. Modinos, G., Allen, P., Zugman, A., Dima, D., Azis, M., Samson, C. … McGuire, P. (2020). Neural Circuitry of Novelty Salience Processing in Psychosis Risk: Association with Clinical Outcome. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 46(3), pp. 670–679. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbz089.
  10. Tozzi, L., Garczarek, L., Janowitz, D., Stein, D.J., Wittfeld, K., Dobrowolny, H. … Frodl, T. (2020). Interactive impact of childhood maltreatment, depression, and age on cortical brain structure: Mega-analytic findings from a large multi-site cohort. Psychological Medicine, 50(6), pp. 1020–1031. doi:10.1017/S003329171900093X.
  11. Han, L.K.M., Dinga, R., Hahn, T., Ching, C.R.K., Eyler, L.T., Aftanas, L. … Fullerton, J.M. (2020). Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group. Molecular Psychiatry. doi:10.1038/s41380-020-0754-0.
  12. Ioakeimidis, V., Haenschel, C., Yarrow, K., Kyriakopoulos, M. and Dima, D. (2020). A Meta-analysis of Structural and Functional Brain Abnormalities in Early-Onset Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 1(1). doi:10.1093/schizbullopen/sgaa016.
  13. Ching, C.R.K., Hibar, D.P., Gurholt, T.P., Nunes, A., Thomopoulos, S.I., Abé, C. … Sim, K. (2020). What we learn about bipolar disorder from large-scale neuroimaging: Findings and future directions from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group. Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.1002/hbm.25098.
  14. Wierenga, L.M., Doucet, G.E., Dima, D., Agartz, I., Aghajani, M., Akudjedu, T.N. … McPhilemy, G. (2020). Greater male than female variability in regional brain structure across the lifespan. Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.1002/hbm.25204.
  15. Smeeth, D.M., Dima, D., Jones, L., Jones, I., Craddock, N., Owen, M.J. … Powell, T.R. (2019). Polygenic risk for circulating reproductive hormone levels and their influence on hippocampal volume and depression susceptibility. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 106, pp. 284–292. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.04.011.
  16. Dezhina, Z., Ranlund, S., Kyriakopoulos, M., Williams, S.C.R. and Dima, D. (2019). A systematic review of associations between functional MRI activity and polygenic risk for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 13(3), pp. 862–877. doi:10.1007/s11682-018-9879-z.
  17. Powell, T.R., De Jong, S., Breen, G., Lewis, C.M. and Dima, D. (2019). Telomere length as a predictor of emotional processing in the brain. Human Brain Mapping, 40(6), pp. 1750–1759. doi:10.1002/hbm.24487.
  18. van Erp, T.G.M., Walton, E., Hibar, D.P., Schmaal, L., Jiang, W., Glahn, D.C. … Orhan, F. (2019). Reply to: New Meta- and Mega-analyses of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in Schizophrenia: Do They Really Increase Our Knowledge About the Nature of the Disease Process? Biological Psychiatry, 85(7). doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.10.003.
  19. Goikolea, J.M., Dima, D., Landín-Romero, R., Torres, I., Delvecchio, G., Valentí, M. … Vieta, E. (2019). Multimodal Brain Changes in First-Episode Mania: A Voxel-Based Morphometry, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Connectivity Study. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 45(2), pp. 464–473. doi:10.1093/schbul/sby047.
  20. Coutts, F., Palmos, A.B., Duarte, R.R.R., de Jong, S., Lewis, C.M., Dima, D. … Powell, T.R. (2019). The polygenic nature of telomere length and the anti-ageing properties of lithium. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44(4), pp. 757–765. doi:10.1038/s41386-018-0289-0.
  21. De Kovel, C.G.F., Aftanas, L., Aleman, A., Alexander-Bloch, A.F., Baune, B.T., Brack, I. … Francks, C. (2019). No alterations of brain structural asymmetry in major depressive disorder: An ENIGMA consortium analysis. American Journal of Psychiatry, 176(12), pp. 1039–1049. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.18101144.
  22. van Erp, T.G.M., Walton, E., Hibar, D.P., Schmaal, L., Jiang, W., Glahn, D.C. … Orhan, F. (2018). Cortical Brain Abnormalities in 4474 Individuals With Schizophrenia and 5098 Control Subjects via the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium. Biological Psychiatry, 84(9), pp. 644–654. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.04.023.
  23. Roberts, R.E., Ahmad, H., Patel, M., Dima, D., Ibitoye, R., Sharif, M. … Bronstein, A.M. (2018). An fMRI study of visuo-vestibular interactions following vestibular neuritis. NeuroImage: Clinical, 20, pp. 1010–1017. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2018.10.007.
  24. Hibar, D.P., Westlye, L.T., Doan, N.T., Jahanshad, N., Cheung, J.W., Ching, C.R.K. … Lawrence, N.S. (2018). Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder: An MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group. Molecular Psychiatry, 23(4), pp. 932–942. doi:10.1038/mp.2017.73.
  25. Worker, A., Dima, D., Combes, A., Crum, W.R., Streffer, J., Einstein, S. … O'daly, O. (2018). Test–retest reliability and longitudinal analysis of automated hippocampal subregion volumes in healthy ageing and Alzheimer's disease populations. Human Brain Mapping, 39(4), pp. 1743–1754. doi:10.1002/hbm.23948.
  26. Braeutigam, S., Dima, D., Frangou, S. and James, A. (2018). Dissociable auditory mismatch response and connectivity patterns in adolescents with schizophrenia and adolescents with bipolar disorder with psychosis: A magnetoencephalography study. Schizophrenia Research, 193, pp. 313–318. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2017.07.048.
  27. Powell, T.R., Dima, D., Frangou, S. and Breen, G. (2018). Telomere length and bipolar disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology, 43(2), pp. 445–453. doi:10.1038/npp.2017.125.
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