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Agatha Alves AnetPhD Student,听Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Cognition听触听Global Mental Health | Mood Disorders听触听Wellbeing |
Humma AndleebPhD student,听Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Epidemiology | Global Mental Health | Wellbeing | Psychosocial听触听Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Sarah AshleyPhD student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Epidemiology | Psychosocial | Mood Disorders听触听Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Dan BangSir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow,听Queen Square Institute of Neurology I study how humans build mental models of the world for behavioural control, with a focus on social behaviour. Social interaction is remarkably complex: an action that is rewarded in one context may be punished in another, and what we think or feel may clash with the behaviour that is required of us. I seek to understand how humans solve such problems, using behavioural testing, computational modelling and neuroimaging. These techniques allow me to characterise the cognitive processes underlying behaviour and study their implementation in the brain. A biologically-informed account of human social behaviour is important for advancing our understanding of disorders of mental health. Many mental disorders are social in nature 鈥� they manifest in interactions between people 鈥� but we lack a mechanistic explanation of what has gone awry. Other research interests include Cognition听触听Mood Disorders听触听Psychosocial听| Neuromodulation |
Daniel BendorAssociate Professor,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences |
James BisbyLecturer,听Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
Michael BloomfieldPrincipal Clinical Research Fellow,听Division of Psychiatry Dr Bloomfield's work seeks to understand the mechanisms underlying how exposure to risk factors for mental illness during childhood and adolescence alter adult brain and cognitive function to give rise to mental illnesses so that new treatment and preventative interventions can be developed.听 He has been awarded an Excellence Fellowship from 果冻影院, the British Medical Association's Margaret Temple Award for schizophrenia research, the British Association of Psychopharmaocology's BAP Award for Junior Clinical Psychopharmacologist of the Year and the Royal College of Psychiatrists Trainee of the Year award.听 In addition he has received young investigator awards from the European College of Neuropsychopharmocology, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and major international research societies. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Pharmacology | | Trauma Henrietta Bowden-Jones听Consultant Psychiatrist in Behavioural Addictions,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Digital Health | Epidemiology | Global Mental Health | Neuroscience | Substance abuse | Behavioural addictions |
Elvira BramonProfessor of Neuroscience and Mental Health,听Division of Psychiatry I鈥檓 interested in biological markers of brain function and structure that can be used to characterise psychosis. In particular, I have expertise in using EEG techniques like evoked potentials and quantitative EEG and have also worked with structural imaging and cognitive biomarkers for psychosis. Other research interests include Cognition听触听Pharmacology听触听Serious Mental Illness听| Genomics Academic Foundation Doctor, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Epidemiology | Serious Mental Illness | Older Adult Mental Health |
Marc Aurel BuscheProgramme Leader at the UK DRI and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Queen Square,听Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Dementia | Older Adult Mental Health听触听Cognition Dorina Cadar听听 听听Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Epidemiology & Health Cognition听 Other research interests include Dementia | Epidemiology | Psychosocial 听 |
Christina CarlisiPostdoctoral Research Fellow,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences I am a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome research fellow in the听听at 果冻影院. Through my fellowship, I am also affiliated with the听听at Duke University. My current research uses computational methods (e.g. computational modelling, psychophysics) to examine affective processing. I am interested in how individual differences in diverse factors such as early life experiences and neurobiological mechanisms give rise to (or protect us from) the development of mental health problems and am particularly interested in developing more sensitive measures of individual differences to study how behavioural traits such as anxiety and conduct problems develop across childhood and adolescence. Other research interests include Epidemiology | Mood Disorders听触听Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Cognition George ChapmanHonorary research fellow, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Pharmacology | Older Adult Mental Health | Serious Mental Illness |
James J CoxAssociate Professor,听Division of Medicine |
David CurtisHonorary Professor,听Division of Biosciences Since 1990 I collaborated with Hugh Gurling at the 果冻影院 Molecular Psychiatry Lab in research aimed at identifying genes affecting risk of mental illness. Initially we carried out linkage studies of families multiply affected with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Subsequently I have been involved in association studies and latterly studies using next generation sequencing data. Throughout this time I have also developed new statistical approaches and have written computer software to carry out genetic analyses. I am currently working on methods for detecting genetic variants affecting risk of complex diseases using large exome-sequenced datasets. Other research interests include |
Ravi DasAssociate Professor,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include |
Anthony DavidProfessor of Mental Health Director & Sackler Chair, 果冻影院 Institute of Mental Health I graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1980 and trained in neurology before entering psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London.听听I also have a Masters degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology.听听I was an honorary consultant at the Maudsley from 1990-2018 and was awarded a personal chair from the Institute of Psychiatry, King鈥檚 College London in 1996. I was Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry at the IoPPN in 2013-8. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness |听Cognition听触听Epidemiology | Physical Health |
听PhD student in mental health science (果冻影院-Wellcome programme), Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Cognition | Epidemiology听触听Psychological Interventions |
Stephen FlemingSir Henry Dale Fellow,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Dementia |听Mood Disorders |听Psychological Interventions听触听Cognition |
Aikaterini FotopoulouProfessor,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Katerina鈥檚 research aims to understand the interface between mental and somatic health and ultimately advance the treatment of related health disorders, including听unawareness following stroke, functional motor and eating disorders. Katerina has published around 100 papers (see below for full list) and edited the volume Fotopoulou, A. Conway, M.A. Pfaff, D. From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in听Psychodynamic Neuroscience.听Oxford University Press, 2012. Her grant鈥檚 portfolio totals approximately 4.2 million EUR, including two ERC grants. Other research interests include Physical Health | Serious Mental Illness听触听Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Cognition 听 PhD Research Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Epidemiology | Psychosocial | Cognition | Serious Mental Illness |
Sabina FunkResearch Associate,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Cognition听触听Dementia | Global Mental Health听|听Mood Disorders |听Older Adult Mental Health听触听Psychological Interventions听| Wellbeing |
Anne GaulePhD Student,听Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Psychosocial | Wellbeing听触听Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Cognition |
Eriko GavinioPhD Student and Clinical Psychologist,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Cognition | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Wellbeing |
James GilleenSenior Lecturer,听Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Pharmacology | Psychological Interventions |听Wellbeing |听Serious Mental Illness听触听Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Cognition |
Laura GroverResearch Assistant,听Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Older Adult Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Epidemiology |听Dementia Antonia HamiltonProfessor of Social Neuroscience,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Neuroscience |听Children and Young People's Mental Health Lasana HarrisProfessor of Social Neuroscience,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Neuroscience听| Stigma |
Tobias HauserPrinciple Research Fellow,听Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Cognition听| Digital Health |听Pharmacology SpR / Academic Clinical Fellow, Division of Psychiatry听听 听 Other research interests include |
Samuel HewittPhD Student,听Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Cognition听触听Mood Disorders |
Aaron KandolaPhD Candidate,听Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders |听Physical Health | Wellbeing听触听Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Epidemiology Sunjeev KambojProfessor of Translational Clinical Psychology,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions听| Trauma听触听Substance abuse听触听Pharmacology Karel KieslichPhD Student,听Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Substance Abuse | Pharmacology听触听Epidemiology Postdoctoral Research Fellow,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Global Mental Health听| Digital Health |
Peter A. KirkPhD in the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Program for the Ecological Study of the Brain,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include |
Christian LambertPrincipal Research Associate/Honorary Consultant Neurologist,听Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Cognition听触听Dementia | Neuroscience听触听Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonian syndromes |
Jennifer F. LindenProfessor of Neuroscience,听Ear Institute Human beings effortlessly perform complex feats of sound perception and auditory learning; for example, identifying new friends on the telephone just from the way they say hello; predicting a family member's arrival home by the sound of the car alone; or recognizing music from mere snippets heard while flipping through channels on the radio. These everyday yet remarkable abilities depend on listening and learning mechanisms within the brain, not just hearing mechanisms within the ear. 听Research in my laboratory is aimed at understanding these brain mechanisms of listening and learning, especially in the auditory cortex and thalamus. Other research interests include Schizophrenia | Developmental Language Disorders |
Rick LiveseyProfessor of Stem Cell Biology, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Other research interests include Dementia听| Neurodevelopmental Disorders |
Mekeda X LoganResearch Assistant,听Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Epidemiology |听Global Mental Health听触听Children and Young People's Mental Health听 |
Alexis An Yee LowPhD Student,听Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include |
Millie LowtherPhD Student,听Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include |
Andrew MacAskillSir Henry Dale听Fellow,听Division of Biosciences We are working to understand how neurons in the brain communicate with each other to allow them to encode emotional behaviours and make decisions. Problems with this communication underlie the vast majority of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases, and so our aim is to find novel ways to combat these diseases by gaining a greater understanding of the processes that they destroy.听听 Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders听触听Pharmacology | Substance Abuse |
Natalie MarchantSenior Research Fellow,听Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Psychological Interventions |听Older Adult Mental Health听触听Cognition |
Peter MartinLecturer in Applied Statistics,听Institute of Epidemiology and Health I work with psychological therapists and academic psychologists to conduct randomized controlled trials of psychological therapies. These studies evaluate new interventions and estimate how effective they are. We also use mixed methods to investigate the therapy process and to find out why and how, not just if, therapies are successful. I am a member of ChAPTRe, the Child Attachment and Psychological Therapies Research unit at the Anna Freud Centre and 果冻影院. Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Epidemiology |听Psychological Interventions |
Andrew McWilliamsClinical Research Fellow and Specialist Registrar in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Cognition听触听Epidemiology听触听Liason Psychiatry |
Carlos MenaPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Cognition听触听Mood Disorders听触听Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial听| Anxiety |
Eamon McCrory听听 听听Professor of Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Psychological Interventions |听Trauma | Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions |
Kate MerrittResearch Fellow,听Division of Psychiatry My research interest is neuroimaging biomarkers of schizophrenia and psychosis. My previous work examined 1H-MRS measures of glutamate in the brain, and their relationship with treatment response in schizophrenia. My current work characterises the neurodevelopmental trajectories of psychotic experiences, and how social risk factors impact brain development to cause psychotic experiences. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Epidemiology | Pharmacology |听Children and Young People's Mental Health听 |
Agnes NorburyResearch Fellow,听Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Digital Health |听Mood Disorders听触听Psychological Interventions |
Andrei OkorokovAssociate Professor,听Division of Medicine Pain is a major clinical problem and affects more people than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined. Pain is a cofactor in many medical conditions yet pain medicines are often only partially effective, and the problem is increasing with an aging population. By understanding the cellular and molecular processes that lead to the sensation of pain, more effective targeted therapies can be developed to alleviate suffering.听 Other research interests include Pain |
Paula OliveiraHonorary Researcher,听Anna Freud Centre Other research interests include Psychosocial | Psychological Interventions听触听Children and Young People's Mental Health听 |
Sami Omar AmawiCore trainee in psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders |听Serious Mental Illness | Substance Abuse听触听Trauma PhD Student, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Cognition | | Suicide and Self-harm | Machine learning methods in the context of neuroscience and mental health听 |
Vasiliki OrgetaAssociate Professor,听Division of Psychiatry Dr Vasiliki Orgeta is a research psychologist interested in emotional well-being in people with dementia and their family carers. Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of听 psychological and psychosocial interventions in dementia and mild cognitive impairment. She is also interested in how stress could be influencing risk of dementia and the effect of caregiving on caregivers physical and mental health. Other research interests include Wellbeing | Physical Health | Psychosocial | Older Adult Mental Health | Epidemiology | Psychological Interventions | Mood Disorders | Dementia听触听Cognition Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Department lead for Neuropsychiatry,听Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Mood Disorders听触听Dementia | Psychological Interventions Harriet Phillips听听 听Research Assistant Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health听\听Trauma | Conduct problems听 |
Giulia PiazzaPhD Student,听Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Pharmacology | Psychosocial听触听Cognition 听Headquarters Administrator, UK Dementia Research Insitute Other research interests include Dementia | Serious Mental Illness | Trauma | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Psychological Interventions听 |
Alexandra PikePostdoctoral Research Associate,听Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions听触听Cognition Gary PriceConsultant Neuropsychiatrist听,听Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Psychological Interventions |听Cognition听触听Pharmacology |
Oliver RobinsonICN Group Leader,听Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience We try to better understand anxiety disorders and 'normal' adaptive anxiety and how they relate. We use threat of shock, functional magnetic resonance imaging, computational psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology techniques. We ultimately want to improve outcomes for sufferers of anxiety. For more details visit my lab website: Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Pharmacology | Psychological Interventions听触听Cognition |
Jonathan RoiserProfessor of Neuroscience and Mental Health,听Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Our aim is to understand the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying symptoms of mental illness, especially those relating to motivation. We utilise experimental techniques drawn from cognitive psychology, functional neuroimaging, psychopharmacology, and computational modelling, both in patient populations and healthy volunteers. Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Cognition听触听Mood Disorders |听Pharmacology |听Physical Health听触听Psychological Interventions听 |
Elizabeth SampsonClinical Professor,听Division of Psychiatry My research focuses on key clinical issues for frail older people. My main areas of interest are:
Other research interests include Older Adult Mental Health | Physical Health | Liaison Psychiatry |听Dementia |
Gabrielle SheehanClinical Research Assistant,听Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Mood Disorders |听Older Adult Mental Health听触听Anxiety and depression in older adults and Parkinson's disease |
Karin ShmueliAssociate Professor in MRI,听Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering I am interested in developing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques to increase image contrast and resolution by exploiting new contrast mechanisms. The current goal of my research programme is to characterise frequency and susceptibility contrasts and to develop and translate MRI techniques exploiting these mechanisms to improve disease diagnosis and monitoring of therapies. Conventional MRI uses only the signal magnitude, but utilising the frequency (or phase) of the MRI signal has dramatically improved visualisation of tissue structure and can reveal tissue composition. During my previous post at the USA National Institutes of Health, I developed new methods to calculate tissue magnetic susceptibility maps from MRI frequency images. MRI tissue Susceptibility Mapping is an exciting technique and a rapidly growing research area. Together with my research group and collaborators, I now aim to unlock the potential of these MRI frequency and susceptibility methods to generate clinical MRI biomarkers of disease. Other research interests include Physical Health听触听Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Cognition听触听Dementia |
Andrew SommerladPrincipal Research Fellow,听Division of Psychiatry Dr Sommerlad uses multiple methodologies including observational research using longitudinal cohorts and routinely collected electronic health records, qualitative research, systematic review and meta-analysis to examine clinically relevant outcomes in dementia and cognition for older people. Other research interests include Epidemiology | Older Adult Mental Health听触听Cognition听触听Dementia |
Maarten SpeekenbrinkProfessor of Mathematical Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | AI for mental health | |
Argyris StringarisProfessor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,听Division of Psychiatry Professor Stringaris is the Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with the Division of Psychiatry and the Psychology and Language Sciences Department at 果冻影院.听He was until recently Senior Investigator and Chief of the Section of Clinical and Computational Psychiatry at NIMH/NIH in the USA and before that a Senior Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. He trained at the Maudsley Hospital. He is a Clinician Scientist working to understand mood and the mechanisms that lead to听depression and severe irritability (emotion dysregulation). He is studying how negative mood states arise and are maintained in the brain. He and his team use a broad range of methodologies stretching from computational modelling to clinical observation and randomised听controlled trials in pursuit of understanding about mood. His latest work is about mood changes in the absence of events (Passage of Time Dysphoria) and about why humans may seek negative emotional states (i.e. choose not to be happiness maximisers at least for discrete time periods). He is collaborating broadly across the natural sciences (with engineers, physicists and mathematicians) and the humanities (historians and philosophers of emotions).听Clinically, he is treating young people with mental illness, particularly those with severe anxiety and depression. Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Epidemiology | Mood Disorders听触听Pharmacology |
Anahita TalwarStudent,听Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders |听Computational Modelling | Psychological Interventions听触听Cognition |
Phd Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders |听Cognition听触听Epidemiology |psychiatric genetics | |
Vincent ValtonNIHR 果冻影院H BRC Fellow - Postdoctoral Researcher,听Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include |
Essi VidingProfessor of Developmental Psychopathology,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences I combine cognitive experimental measures, twin model-fitting, brain imaging, and genotyping to study different developmental pathways to persistent antisocial behaviour and mental health problems more generally. Other research interests include Psychosocial听触听Children and Young People's Mental Health听触听Cognition |
Baihan WangPhD Student,听Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness听触听Cognition Muhammad听Waqar听Ashraf听Bhatti听Clinical Psychologist, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Psychological Interventions听| Psychosocial | Wellbeing | Pharmacology听| Mood Disorders听| Health and Social Care | Sexuality |
Stephen WilsonProfessor of Developmental Genetics and Vice-Dean for Research, FLS,听Division of Biosciences Other research interests include Developmental Genetics and Neurobiology | Brain Asymmetry Marco WittmannIndependent Senior Research Fellow,听Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health听| Mood Disorders听触听Psychosocial |
Ruihan WuPhD Student,听Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Epidemiology | Psychosocial | Cognition听| Autism Mahinda YogarajahConsultant neurologist and MRC CARP fellow, Queen Square Institute of Neurology PhD student, Queen Square Institute of Neurology听听 听 Other research interests include Dementia | Cognition | | Neuroscience | | Trauma | Mood Disorders听 |
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