Mallar Chakravarty
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Associate Member
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Mallar Chakravarty is interested in the anatomy of the brain. His group focuses on how anatomy changes through development, aging, and in illness and how the dynamics of brain anatomy are influenced by genetics and environment.
He leads the Computational Brain Anatomy (CoBrA) Laboratory at the Brain Imaging Centre. His group is a dynamic multi-disciplinary laboratory that is interested the anatomy of the brain and specifically:
- how it matures through adolescence
- how it stays healthy through the normal ageing process
- how alterations in brain anatomy are related to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia.
To do so, he uses and develops sophisticated computational neuroanatomy techniques that are able to automatically parse the geometric complexity of brain anatomy.
The members of the group come from diverse backgrounds, including neuroscientists, computer scientists, engineers, and physicists all working towards a common goal of improving our understanding of the structure-function relationships of the brain through health and illness.
We publicly disseminate much of the algorithmic and atlas work that we do in an effort to promote open and reproducible science.