Dr Tom Farrow
BSc (Hons), PhD
School of Medicine and Population Health
Senior Lecturer in Neuroimaging
Honorary NHS Clinical Scientist


+44 114 271 3128
Full contact details
School of Medicine and Population Health
Room N129, N-Floor
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Glossop Road
葫芦影业
S10 2JF
- Profile
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Following an undergraduate degree (1991-1995, BSc.[Hons.] Neuroscience; 2:i) and PhD (1995-1998, 鈥淪tructural MRI study on the aetiology and cognitive effects of hippocampal sclerosis鈥, supervised by Dr Richard Gr眉newald, and Professor Andrew Mayes) at the University of 葫芦影业, I took up a post-doctoral position at the Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, University of Manchester.
In 1999, I returned to the University of 葫芦影业 to help found and develop the 葫芦影业 Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratory (SCANLab) within Academic Clinical Psychiatry.
In 2001 I was lead author on the first fMRI study to be conducted in 葫芦影业 and began a tenured lectureship position. In 2002 I was awarded a 12-month Royal Society Overseas Fellowship, which was hosted by the Brain Dynamics Centre, University of Sydney, Australia.
Returning to SCANLab in 2003, I continued to conduct structural- and functional MRI-based research and attract grant-funding, most notably as co-investigator on a multi-centre Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Large Grant (2008-2013; 鈥淓motion regulation of others and self (EROS): A collaborative research network鈥; 拢2.7M). I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2009.
In 2013 I moved to Academic Clinical Neurology (in the former Department of Neuroscience), to establish new collaborations and apply my research and methodological expertise to a range of new disorders and cognitive questions.
In 2016 I appointed as Associate Director of Student Affairs (previously known as Undergraduate Dean) for the MBChB course. In 2017, I was appointed as Director of first-year Medicine (MBChB, Phase 1) and in 2018 as Director of Undergraduate Learning and Teaching for the former Department of Neuroscience. In 2018 I was appointed as Senior University Teacher.
I continue to supervise MSc and PhD research students, but now devote most of my time to Medical education.
- Research interests
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My methodological research interests are structural (voxel-based morphometry [VBM]) and functional MR brain imaging, electrophysiological recording (skin conductance response [SCR]) and neuromodulation (transcranial direct current stimulation [tDCS]).
I have applied these methodologies in psychiatric (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD]) and neurologic (Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease, tinnitus, epilepsy, non-epileptic attack disorder [NEAD]) patients and healthy subjects.
The aspects of cognition in which I am interested include empathy, theory of mind, social cognition, deception, emotional salience, emotion regulation and 鈥榬esting-state鈥.
Current projects
- Do personal beliefs impact on the ego-depletion effect (via PhD student, Ahmad Assinnari)
- Using EEG resting state parameters as biomarkers of cognitive decline in ageing
- Modulation of cognitive function via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (tVNS)
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
- Teaching activities
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- Director of Studies, MBChB Phase 1
- Head of Neuroscience, MBChB Phase 1
- MBChB, Associate Director of Student Affairs
- Department of Neuroscience, Director of Undergraduate Learning and Teaching
- Module lead for 鈥楴euroimaging, Neurophysiology & Neuropsychiatry鈥 (MED624)
- Module lead for 鈥楴euroanatomy鈥 (practical human brain dissection) courses, MBChB Phase 1 and various Masters courses (MED661)
- ILA facilitator, MBChB Phase 1
- Lecturer, MRCPsych course
- Have supervised 7 PhD, 9 BMedSci, 17 MSc,1 DClinPsy and numerous undergraduate medical student research projects.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Member, Department of Neuroscience, Executive Committee
- Honorary NHS Clinical Scientist, 葫芦影业 Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Editorial board member, The Open Neuroimaging Journal, Bentham Science, USA.
- Member, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
- Member, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
- Member, Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)