CraigW.McFarland

Hi, I'm Craig (Waldence)! I'm an incoming JD/PhD in Neuroscience student at Stanford University, where I will study as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. Currently, I'm completing my MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford with the kind support of the Clarendon Scholarship and Harvard–UK Fellowship. Before Oxford, I served as a Postbaccalaureate Researcher at Mass General Hospital, and completed my A.B. in Neuroscience at Harvard College.

I'm most interested in the circuit-level mechanisms and structural abnormalities underlying neuropsychiatric disorders and behavior, particularly as it relates to vulnerable communities. I primarily work with multimodal human neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI, MRS, DTI), spatial transcriptomics, and brain stimulation (e.g., transcranial ultrasound stimulation), alongside cross-species methods comparing mice and human neuroanatomy. Using neuroscience, I hope we can redefine mental illness, and treat better those who have it in our clinics and within our society.