Roger Woods

Roger P. Woods is a Professor-in-Residence in the Neurology department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine. His research focuses on neuroimaging, brain connectivity, and biomarker development for psychiatric and neurological disorders.

• NIH-funded projects include Mapping the Human Connectome During Typical Aging and Postnatal Development of Cortical Receptors
• Key methodologies: diffusion tensor imaging, functional MRI, brain atlas construction, and machine learning in neuroimaging
• Active collaborations with Katherine Narr, Shantanu Joshi, and Arthur Toga

His 2023-2024 studies explore ketamine's impact on habenular connectivity, sleep deprivation effects on white matter, and neurodevelopmental consequences of prenatal alcohol exposure. Recent work emphasizes precision psychiatry through functional and structural connectivity analysis in depression and schizophrenia.

Woods leads NIH R01 grants on cortical development and computational neuroimaging infrastructure, while contributing to Alzheimer's disease and nonhuman primate models of brain aging and genetic liability.