Dr Davinia Fern谩ndez-Espejo PhD

Dr Davinia Fern谩ndez-Espejo

School of Psychology
Associate Professor

Contact details

Email
d.fernandez-espejo@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Psychology
黑料吃瓜网
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Davinia Fernández-Espejo’s main goal is to understand how the brain supports consciousness and what goes wrong for patients to become entirely unaware after severe brain injury. She uses techniques such as MRI (structural and functional), tDCS, and behavioural approaches in both healthy volunteers and patients with a disorder of consciousness to test hypotheses about the role of different brain structures in the clinical deficits they present. This research is directly translated into the development of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers to be used in clinical settings, as well as the development of novel treatment approaches.

Qualifications

PhD in Biomedicine (Universitat de Barcelona)
MSc in Neuroscience (Universitat de Barcelona)

Teaching

Most recently, Dr Fernández-Espejo has been Module Leader for Applications of Brain Imaging in Cognitive Neuroscience

Publications

Highlight publications

Calzolari, S, Jalali, R & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2023, '', NeuroImage, vol. 269, 119915.

Norton, L, Kazazian, K, Gofton, T, Debicki, D, Fernandez-Espejo, D, Peelle, J, Thenayan, EA, Young, GB & Owen, AM 2022, '', Annals of Neurology.

Calzolari, S, Boneva, S & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2022, '', Neuroscience of Consciousness, vol. 2022, no. 1, niac016.

Aloi, D, Jalali, R, Tilsley, P, Miall, RC & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2022, '', NeuroImage, vol. 247, 118781.

Fernandez-Espejo, D, Rossit, S & Owen, A 2015, '', JAMA Neurology.

Recent publications

Article

Edlow, BL, Boerwinkle, VL, Annen, J, Boly, M, Gosseries, O, Laureys, S, Mukherjee, P, Puybasset, L, Stevens, RD, Threlkeld, ZD, Newcombe, VFJ, Fernandez-Espejo, D & Curing Coma Campaign聽and聽 its Contributing Members 2023, '', Neurocritical Care.

Curing Coma, Edlow, BL, Boerwinkle, VL, Annen, J, Boly, M, Gosseries, O, Laureys, S, Mukherjee, P, Puybasset, L, Stevens, RD, Threlkeld, ZD, Newcombe, VFJ & Fernandez-Espejo, D 2023, '', Neurocritical Care, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 753.

Aloi, D, Jalali, R, Calzolari, S, Lafanechere, M, Miall, RC & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2023, '', NeuroImage, vol. 274, 120145.

Norton, L, Graham, M, Kazazian, K, Gofton, T, Weijer, C, Debicki, D, Fernandez-Espejo, D, Al Thenayan, E & Owen, AM 2023, '', International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, vol. 23, no. 2, 100347.

Coulborn, S & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2022, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 12, no. 1, 18021.

Coulborn, S, Taylor, C, Naci, L, Owen, AM & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2021, '', Brain Sciences, vol. 11, no. 6, 749.

Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Andrews, L & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2021, . in S Della Sala (ed.), Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, 2nd edition. 2nd edn, vol. 1, Elsevier, pp. 188-196.

Preprint

Calzolari, S, Jalali, R & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2022 '' bioRxiv.

Coulborn, S & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2022 '' bioRxiv.

Calzolari, S, Boneva, S & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2022 '' PsyArXiv.

Aloi, D, Jalali, R, Calzolari, S, Lafanechere, M, Miall, RC & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2022 '' bioRxiv.

Coulborn, S, Taylor, C, Naci, L, Owen, AM & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2021 '' medRxiv, pp. 1-23. ,

Aloi, D, Jalali, R, Tilsley, P, Miall, RC & Fern谩ndez-Espejo, D 2021 '' bioRxiv, pp. 1-34.

Review article

UK mTBI Predict Consortium, Sassani, M, Ghafari, T, Arachchige, PRW, Idrees, I, Gao, Y, Waitt, A, Weaver, SRC, Mazaheri, A, Lyons, HS, Grech, O, Thaller, M, Witton, C, Bagshaw, AP, Wilson, M, Park, H, Brookes, M, Novak, J, Mollan, SP, Hill, LJ, Lucas, SJE, Mitchell, JL, Sinclair, AJ, Mullinger, K & Fernandez-Espejo, D 2025, '', Brain Communications.

Fischer, D, Newcombe, V, Fernandez-Espejo, D & Snider, SB 2022, '', Seminars in neurology, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 325-334.