CraigW.McFarland

Hi, I'm Craig (Waldence)! I'm an incoming JD/PhD (Neuroscience) student, and currently completing my MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar and Harvard–UK Fellow. Before Oxford, I completed my A.B. in Neuroscience at Harvard College and served as a Postbaccalaureate Researcher at Mass General Hospital, where I focused on emerging neurotechnologies like brain stimulation and psychiatric genomics.

My research centers on the mechanisms underlying network dysfunction in psychiatric illness through multimodal human neuroimaging and brain stimulation. I'm most interested in leveraging structural MRI and fMRI to better characterize brain-based biomarkers of mental illness, and then using non-invasive brain stimulation to perturb them. Alongside neuroscience, I'm deeply interested in moral philosophy and law. There are always extraordinary connections to be synapsed between disciplines!