Melanie Morrison, PhD | Neuromodulation Imaging Lab

Principal Investigator

Dr. Morrison is an Assistant Professor in the Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Department and a core member of the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint PhD Program in Bioengineering. She received her PhD in Medical Biophysics in 2016 from the University of Toronto. She oversees all research activities and provides mentorship to lab members.

Honors and Awards

Chancellor's Conference Grant, University of California San Francisco, 2023

NCFDD Faculty Success Program Tuition Scholarship, University of California San Francisco, 2023

Weill Institute Women in Neurosciences Research Support for Female Learners Impacted by COVID-19, University of California San Francisco, 2021

Best Poster Presentation (Radiology Retreat), University of California San Francisco, 2021

Magna cum Laude (abstract), International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Conference, 2020

Bruce Hasegawa, PhD Award for Early-Scientist Excellence in Research, University of California San Francisco, 2020

PBBR (Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research) Postdoc Independent Research Grant, University of California San Francisco, 2020

Radiology Seed Grant, University of California San Francisco, 2020

UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, University of California San Francisco, 2020

UCSF Regeneron Prize Finalist, University of California San Francisco, 2020

Office of Education and Training Travel Grant, University of California San Francisco, 2019

Best Oral Presentation, British Neuro-Oncology Society, 2018

Introduction to Academic Radiology for Scientist Training and Travel Award, Radiological Society of North America, 2017

Best Oral Presentation (Radiology Symposium), University of California San Francisco, 2017

Postdoc Slam Finalist, University of California San Francisco, 2017

Walker-Marshall Award for Academic Excellence, University of Toronto, 2016

Summa cum Laude (abstract), International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Conference, 2015

James Lepock Memorial Award, University of Toronto, 2015

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto, 2015

School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant, University of Toronto, 2015

Department of Medical Biophysics Excellence Award, University of Toronto, 2014

Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology, University of Toronto, 2013-2015

Ontario International Education Opportunity Scholarship, Carleton University, 2011

Entrance Scholarship, Carleton University, 2009

Publications

Comparison of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping Methods for Iron-Sensitive Susceptibility Imaging at 7T: An Evaluation in Healthy Subjects and Patients with Huntington's Disease.

NeuroImage

Yao J, Morrison MA, Jakary A, Avadiappan S, Chen Y, Luitjens J, Glueck J, Driscoll T, Geschwind M, Nelson A, Villanueva-Meyer J, Hess CP, Lupo JM

Cortico-Subthalamic Field Potentials Support Classification of the Natural Gait Cycle in Parkinson's Disease and Reveal Individualized Spectral Signatures.

eNeuro

Louie KH, Gilron R, Yaroshinsky MS, Morrison MA, Choi J, de Hemptinne C, Little S, Starr PA, Wang DD

Functional network alterations in young brain tumor patients with radiotherapy-induced memory impairments and vascular injury.

Frontiers in neurology

Morrison MA, Walter S, Mueller S, Felton E, Jakary A, Stoller S, Molinaro AM, Braunstein SE, Hess CP, Lupo JM

An Integrated Analysis of Clinical, Genomic, and Imaging Features Reveals Predictors of Neurocognitive Outcomes in a Longitudinal Cohort of Pediatric Cancer Survivors, Enriched with CNS Tumors (Rad ART Pro).

Frontiers in oncology

Kline C, Stoller S, Byer L, Samuel D, Lupo JM, Morrison MA, Rauschecker AM, Nedelec P, Faig W, Dubal DB, Fullerton HJ, Mueller S

Relationship between 7T MR-angiography features of vascular injury and cognitive decline in young brain tumor patients treated with radiation therapy.

Journal of neuro-oncology

Avadiappan S, Morrison MA, Jakary A, Felton E, Stoller S, Hess CP, Molinaro AM, Braunstein SE, Mueller S, Lupo JM

7-T Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Management of Brain Tumors.

Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America

Morrison MA, Lupo JM

DBS targeting for essential tremor using intersectional dentato-rubro-thalamic tractography and direct proton density visualization of the VIM: technical note on 2 cases.

Journal of neurosurgery

Morrison MA, Lee AT, Martin AJ, Dietiker C, Brown EG, Wang DD

Identification of occult cerebral microbleeds in adults with immune thrombocytopenia.

Blood

Cooper N, Morrison MA, Vladescu C, Hart ACJ, Paul D, Malik A, Young T, Luqmani A, Atta M, Sharp DJ, Bussel JB, Waldman AD

7 Tesla MRI investigation of cortical thickness in patients with Huntington’s disease and age-matched healthy controls

Movement Disorders

Morrison MA, Jakary A, Avadiappan S, Tallakson J, Glueck J, Nelson A, Possin K, Dietiker C, Geschwind M, Hess C, Lupo JM.

Temporal properties of resting-state functional MRI are
associated with ON/OFF levodopa MDS-UPDRS III scores in patients with Parkinson’s disease

Movement Disorders

Morrison MA, Bledsoe IO, Wang SS, Lee AT, Volz M, San Luciano M, Katz M, Dietiker C, Galifianakis N, Martin AJ, Starr PA, Larson PS, Ostrem JL, Wang DD.

Rate of radiation-induced microbleed formation on 7T MRI relates to cognitive impairment in young patients treated with radiation therapy for a brain tumor.

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

Morrison MA, Mueller S, Felton E, Jakary A, Stoller S, Avadiappan S, Yuan J, Molinaro AM, Braunstein S, Banerjee A, Hess CP, Lupo JM

Simultaneous multi-slice spin- and gradient-echo dynamic susceptibility-contrast perfusion-weighted MRI of gliomas.

NMR in biomedicine

Han M, Yang B, Fernandez B, Lafontaine M, Alcaide-Leon P, Jakary A, Burns BL, Morrison MA, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Chang SM, Banerjee S, Lupo JM

A Fully Automated Method for Segmenting Arteries and Quantifying Vessel Radii on Magnetic Resonance Angiography Images of Varying Projection Thickness.

Frontiers in neuroscience

Avadiappan S, Payabvash S, Morrison MA, Jakary A, Hess CP, Lupo JM

Imaging Markers of Lower-Grade Diffuse Glioma. In: Pope W. (eds) Glioma Imaging

Morrison MA, Waldman AD

System and method for intraoperative characterization of brain function using input from a touch panel device

Graham SJ, Morrison MA, Tam F, Schweizer TA, Das S, Garavaglia M

NIMG-55. TO ASSESS THE UTILITY OF ADVANCED QUANTITATIVE DIFFUSION MRI DERIVED FROM MULTI B VALUE ACQUISITIONS IN THE ASSESSMENT OF TREATMENT RESPONSE, USING A SPATIALLY-INDEPENDENT APPROACH

Neuro-Oncology

Islam S, Morrison MA, Waldman AD

NIMG-56. A MULTIMODAL 7 TELSA MRI INVESTIGATION OF LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF RADIOTHERAPY ON THE ADOLESCENT BRAIN & COGNITION

Neuro-Oncology

Morrison M, Avadiappan S, Yuan J, Stoller S, Jakary A, Mueller S, Molinaro A, Banerjee A, Hess C, Braunstein S, Lupo J

RTHP-21. CHARACTERIZATION OF RADIATION THERAPY EFFECTS ON CEREBRAL VASCULATURE IN PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR SURVIVORS

Neuro-Oncology

Avadiappan S, Morrison M, Jakary A, Felton E, Mueller S, Lupo J

RTHP-02. CHARACTERIZATION AND EVOLUTION OF RADIOTHERAPY-INDUCED VASCULAR INJURY AND CORRESPONDING CHANGES IN WHITE MATTER STRUCTURE: AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY IN 125 PATIENTS WITH GLIOMAS

Neuro-Oncology

Morrison M, Jakary A, Bian W, Wen Q, Hess C, Clarke J, Butowski N, Chang S, Nelson S, Lupo J

Toward Automatic Detection of Radiation-Induced Cerebral Microbleeds Using a 3D Deep Residual Network.

Journal of digital imaging

Chen Y, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Morrison MA, Lupo JM

USING DWI-MRI PARAMETERS FROM MULTI- B VALUES ACQUISITION AND A HISTOGRAM APPROACH FOR ASSESSMENT OF EARLY THERAPEUTIC RESPONSE IN GLIOBLASTOMA

Neuro-Oncology

Islam S, Morrison M, Orton M, Grech-Sollars M, Waldman A

Spatial reorganisation of the somatosensory cortex in a patient with a low-grade glioma.

BMJ case reports

Das S, Morrison M, Tam F, Graham S

MEDU-15. STRUCTURAL BRAIN NETWORK PROPERTIES AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN ADOLESCENTS AFTER RADIATION THERAPY

Neuro-Oncology

Yuan J, Morrison M, Jakary A, Mueller S, Tymofiyeva O, Xu D, Lupo J

MEDU-18. FUNCTIONAL BRAIN NETWORK PROPERTIES AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN ADOLESCENTS FOLLOWING RADIATION THERAPY

Neuro-Oncology

Morrison MA, Jakary A, Felton E, Stoller S, Yuan J, Mueller S, Lupo J

MEDU-43. GLOBAL AND REGIONAL EFFECTS OF RADIATION THERAPY ON CEREBRAL MICROVASCULATURE IN PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR SURVIVORS

Neuro-Oncology

Avadiappan S, Morrison M, Jakary A, Felton E, Stoller S, Hess C, Mueller S, Braunstein S, Lupo J

Risk factors of radiotherapy-induced cerebral microbleeds and serial analysis of their size compared with white matter changes: A 7T MRI study in 113 adult patients with brain tumors.

Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI

Morrison MA, Hess CP, Clarke JL, Butowski N, Chang SM, Molinaro AM, Lupo JM

ACTR-42. THE USE OF ADVANCED DIFFUSION MRI PARAMETERS IN THE ASSESSMENT OF TREATMENT RESPONSE IN GLIOBLASTOMA USING MULTI-B VALUE ACQUISITION AND A HISTOGRAM-BASED APPROACH

Neuro-Oncology

Islam S, Morrison M, Grech-Sollars M, Orton M, Waldman A

NIMG-47. A HISTOGRAM-BASED, BACK-PROJECTION METHOD FOR TREATMENT RESPONSE ASSESSMENT IN GLIOBLASTOMA USING MULTI B-VALUE ADVANCED DIFFUSION MRI

Neuro-Oncology

Morrison M, Islam S, Grech-Sollars M, Waldman A

CHARACTERIZATION OF RADIOTHERAPY-INDUCED CEREBRAL MICROBLEEDS WITH ULTRA-HIGH FIELD MRI: EXPERIENCE IN YOUNG AND ADULT BRAIN TUMOUR POPULATION

Neuro-Oncology

Morrison M, Jakary A, Felton E, Hess C, Clarke J, Butowski N, Chang S, Mueller S, Lupo J

A user-guided tool for semi-automated cerebral microbleed detection and volume segmentation: Evaluating vascular injury and data labelling for machine learning.

NeuroImage. Clinical

Morrison MA, Payabvash S, Chen Y, Avadiappan S, Shah M, Zou X, Hess CP, Lupo JM

MEDU-25. THE EFFECTS OF CRANIAL RADIOTHERAPY-INDUCED VASCULAR INJURY ON BRAIN TISSUE STRUCTURE AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN CHILDREN WITH MEDULLOBLASTOMA

Neuro-Oncology

Morrison M, Jakary A, Felton A, Mueller S, Lupo L

NCO-09 * THE EFFICACY OF THERAPEUTIC DISCOURSE ANALYSIS DURING BRAIN TUMOUR RESECTION IN AWAKE CRANIOTOMIES

Neuro-Oncology

Milburn S, Garavaglia M, Hare G, Rigamonti A, Kelly C, Morrison M, Graham S, Das S

Pre-operative Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Application to Tumour Resection by Awake Craniotomy

Morrison MA

Sources of Variation Influencing Concordance between Functional MRI and Direct Cortical Stimulation in Brain Tumor Surgery.

Frontiers in neuroscience

Morrison MA, Tam F, Garavaglia MM, Hare GM, Cusimano MD, Schweizer TA, Das S, Graham SJ

PS2 – 196. The Spatial Agreement Between Pre-Operative Functional MRI and Intra-Operative Direct Cortical Stimulation

The Canadian journal of neurological sciences

Morrison MA, Tam F, Garavaglia MM, Hare GMT, Cusimano MD, Schweizer TA, Das S, Graham SJ

Reliability of Task-Based fMRI for Preoperative Planning: A Test-Retest Study in Brain Tumor Patients and Healthy Controls.

PloS one

Morrison MA, Churchill NW, Cusimano MD, Schweizer TA, Das S, Graham SJ

A novel tablet computer platform for advanced language mapping during awake craniotomy procedures.

Journal of neurosurgery

Morrison MA, Tam F, Garavaglia MM, Golestanirad L, Hare GM, Cusimano MD, Schweizer TA, Das S, Graham SJ

Neuro-Oncology

NI-59 * TABLET TECHNOLOGY FOR IMPROVED PREOPERATIVE SPEECH MAPPING USING FUNCTIONAL MRI IN PATIENTS WITH LOW-GRADE GLIOMA

Morrison M, Golestanirad L, Schweizer T, Graham S, Das S

Optical coherence tomography platform for microvascular imaging and quantification: initial experience in late oral radiation toxicity patients.

Journal of biomedical optics

Davoudi B, Morrison M, Bizheva K, Yang VX, Dinniwell R, Levin W, Vitkin IA