Thomas E. Cope MA, MBBChir, MClinRes, MRCP, PhD

Dr. Thomas E. Cope is a consultant neurologist, with clinical interests in cognition and epilepsy. He is particularly interested in how the mind works, how perceives the world, and how this goes wrong in patients with neurological pathology. Her research examines how the brain makes predictions about the world, reconciles these predictions against the information from our senses, and learns to improve future perception. To do this, he manipulates sensory inputs and measures how this alters the coding of information in the brain; by combining psychophysics, PET, magnetoencephalography ultra-high field (7T) functional MRI, and direct intracranial recordings in patients with rare dementias or undergoing surgery for epilepsy. He is also an Official Fellow of Murray Edwards College, where he teaches neuroscience and directs studies for psychology.