Dr. Arash Aghamohammadi Sereshki, PhD

Arash Aghamohammadi Sereshki, PhD (University of Alberta, 2019) is a neuroscientist and Sessional Instructor at Concordia University of Edmonton (Aug 2025–present), where he teaches Brain and Behaviour, Cognition, and Research Design and Intermediate Statistics. He previously held a Postdoctoral Associate position in the Department of Radiology at the University of Calgary (Oct 2019–July 2025).

Dr. Aghamohammadi Sereshki uses advanced neuroimaging—including structural MRI (sMRI), diffusion MRI, and resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI)—to examine brain structure, connectivity, and function across development and aging. His doctoral work focused on developing high-field (4.7T), ultra-high-resolution MRI methods to segment amygdala subnuclei in vivo and to investigate their roles in healthy aging, depression, and childhood trauma. He also examined the cingulate cortex and cingulum bundle in relation to aging and genetic polymorphisms.

Building on this foundation, his postdoctoral research investigated adolescent brain development, with an emphasis on the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure and postnatal stress on brain and behavioural outcomes. Using sMRI and advanced diffusion approaches, including constrained spherical deconvolution, he studied brain regions central to higher-order cognition and emotion regulation, including the rostral cingulate cortex, cingulum bundle, and prefrontal white matter tracts. Extending this program, he has also conducted longitudinal research on the potential benefits of prenatal maternal physical activity for children’s hippocampal development, identifying factors that support optimal neurodevelopment.

His current work examines links between neurodevelopmental change and emotional functioning in adolescence, leveraging twin designs and rs-fMRI to identify shared genetic and environmental mechanisms underlying brain–behaviour associations.