Ricarda Menke is a postdoctoral researcher in the FMRIB Centre at the University of Oxford. After having finished her physics studies (Department of Particle Physics, University of Münster, Germany, 2004) she studied language processing in healthy subjects as well as training-induced reorganisation of the language system in patients who suffered from aphasia after stroke by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) during her PhD (2004-2008, Department of Neurology, University of Muenster). In December 2007, she started her position in Oxford where she is searching for MRI markers for Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, and Mild Cognitive Impairment employing volumetry, quantitative T1/T2 imaging, and DTI.