Associate Professor David White
- School of Health Sciences (SoHS)
- Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences
- ATC1042 Hawthorn campus
Biography
Dr David White is Director at Swinburne Neuroimaging and a Research Lead at the Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences, where he has been involved in a range of clinical trials exploring the neurocognitive effects of nutritional and nutraceutical interventions in healthy adults and at-risk aging populations.
Dr White’s research utilises a range of neuroimaging methods (EEG, MRI and MEG) to understand optimal brain function and explore potential mechanisms by which interventions may enhance neurocognitive health in at-risk or compromised populations (including neurofeedback, nutritional and nutraceutical interventions).
Research interests
Nutrition; Neuroscience; Psychopharmacology
PhD candidate and honours supervision
Higher degrees by research
Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.
PhD topics and outlines
Improved neuroimaging data acquisition and analysis techniques: Methods of MRI, MEG and EEG data acquisition and analysis are constantly evolving and there are no so-called ‘gold-standard’ techniques. To develop new data acquisition and analysis techniques, and improve existing techniques, we are acquiring a repository of high quality datasets with which to evaluate reproducibility and compare new methods.
Risk-factors for age-related cognitive decline: A number of projects exist exploring the role of lifestyle factors, cardiovascular function, oxidative stress, inflammatory markers and the gut microbiome in age-related cognitive decline and neurocognitive health, as assessed by structural, neurochemical and functional neuroimaging methods.
Honours
Available to supervise honours students.
Honours topics and outlines
Neurofeedback in the modulation of cognitive and motor skill performance: Neurofeedback offers a non-invasive method for training changes in brain activity. This research explores the feasibility and functional outcomes associated with trained alterations in aspects of brain electrical activity recorded from the scalp (EEG) on aspects of cognitive and motor performance.
Risk-factors for age-related cognitive decline: A number of projects exist exploring the role of lifestyle factors, cardiovascular function, oxidative stress, inflammatory markers and the gut microbiome in age-related cognitive decline and neurocognitive health, as assessed by structural, neurochemical and functional neuroimaging methods.
Teaching areas
Neuroscience;Psychopharmacology
Awards
- 2007, National, Australian Postgraduate Award, Swinburne University
Publications
Also published as: White, David; White, D.; White, D. J.; White, David J.
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Recent research grants awarded
- 2021: (Student) - Acute and long-term effects of Neuroberrry/Arepa on neurocognitive health *; AlphaGen NZ Ltd (Arepa) Funding Scheme
- 2021: Australian Electrophysiology Data Analytics PlaTform (AEDAPT) *; Australian Research Data Commons
- 2020: Complex Milk Lipids in Older Adults with Subjective Memory Complaints *; Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
- 2016: Effects of 4 weeks supplementation with a multi-vitamin/mineral preparation on neurocognitive function: A randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled trialBABE 3 *; Bayer Consumer Care AG
- 2013: Controlled Trials in ‘At Risk’ Humans to Establish the Cognitive Benefits of a Nutrient Mixture and Underlying Mechanisms of Action - the Cognitive Aging, Nutrition and Neurogenesis (C.A.N.N.) trial. *; Centre for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory (CNLM) Grand Challenge Grant App 2013
* Chief Investigator
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