Robyn Honea, PhD

Robyn Honea is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. 

Robyn obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology with a concentration in Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University in 2002.  She then worked under a predoctoral training award in the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch at the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) in Washington DC, focusing in brain imaging.  She did her doctoral work at the University of Oxford in England in the department of Experimental Psychology, doing work with imaging genetics of mental illness.  She also continued research at the NIMH in Washington, D.C. as part of the Graduate Partnerships Program Award.  Three years of thesis work were completed at the NIMH in the Unit on Dynamic Imaging Genetics.  The focus of her thesis was on using Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM), Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to investigate structural and functional abnormalities associated with mental illness, as well as its underlying genetic mechanisms.  She graduated from Oxford with a DPhil in Neuroscience this past July, 2007.  Robyn will be working on the KU Brain Aging study with Dr. Burns, using Voxel-Based Morphometry and other imaging analysis techniques to investigate Alzheimer’s disease.