Faculty of Science

Professor Dorothee Auer

Precision Imaging Lead, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences 

Dorothee.auer@nottingham.ac.uk.

As a diagnostic neuroradiologist my research interests align with clinical diagnostic challenges in neurosciences and mental health. My research group uses innovative MRI to understand disease mechanisms and guide precision therapies. 

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N3Centre Research Interests 
  • Understanding neural mechanisms
  • Clinical translation
 

 

Key Publications

  • Accelerated intermittent theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for chronic knee osteoarthritis pain. Hodkinson D, Drabek M, Horvath S, Pszczolkowski S, Tench C, Tanasescu R, Lankappa ST, Walsh D, Morriss R, Auer DP. Clinical Neurophysiology, accepted (2025).

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  • Connectivity-guided intermittent theta burst versus repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant depression: a randomized controlled trial. R Morriss, PM Briley, L Webster, M Abdelghani, S Barber, P Bates, Cassandra Brookes, Beth Hall, Luke Ingram, Micheal Kurkar, Sudheer Lankappa, Peter F Liddle, R Hamish McAllister-Williams, Alexander O’Neil-Kerr, Stefan Pszczolkowski, Ana Suazo Di Paola, Yvette Walters, Dorothee P Auer. Nature Medicine 30 (2), 403-413. (2024)

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  • Baseline effective connectivity predicts response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with treatment-resistant depression. S.J. Iwabuchi, D.P. Auer a S.T. Lankappa, L. Palaniyappan. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 29, 5, 681-690 (2019)

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  • Altered connectivity of the right anterior insula drives the pain connectome changes in chronic knee osteoarthritis. WJ Cottam, SJ Iwabuchi, MM Drabek, D Reckziegel, DP Auer Pain 159 (5), 929-938 (2018)

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Faculty of Science

The University of Nottingham
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