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Michael BloomfieldPrincipal Clinical Research Fellow, 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. He has been awarded an Excellence Fellowship from University College London, 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. 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 | Neuroscience | Psychological Interventions | Trauma |
Elvira BramonProfessor of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Division of Psychiatry I’m 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 | Neuroscience | Serious Mental Illness | Genomics |
Ravi DasAssociate Professor, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Neuroscience | Psychological Interventions | Serious Mental Illness | Substance Abuse |
James GilleenSenior Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Neuroscience | Psychological Interventions | Wellbeing | Serious Mental Illness | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition |
Lisa Marie GruenwaldClinical Trial Manager and PhD Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Physical Health |
Zoë HaimePhD Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Cognition | Psychological Interventions | Serious Mental Illness | Eating Disorders |
Tobias HauserPrinciple Research Fellow, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition | Digital Health | Neuroscience |
Joseph HayesPrincipal Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Research areas: Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Mood Disorders | Physical Health | Epidemiology Karishma JivrajLecturer, Institute of Education Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Epidemiology Sunjeev KambojProfessor of Translational Clinical Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Trauma | Substance abuse |
Karel KieslichPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Neuroscience | Substance Abuse | Mood Disorders | Epidemiology |
Glyn LewisProfessor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry I am interested in investigating the causes of psychiatric disorder, particularly depressive illness and psychosis. Causal factors that are potentially preventable could be especially useful but clues to aetiology also can improve our understanding of illness and help to devise treatments. I also carry out randomised controlled trials to evaluate treatments for depression in primary care. I aim to carry out research that has practical implications in improving clinical care of people with psychiatric disorder. I want to identify those advances in our neuroscientific understanding that could lead to practicable benefits for patients. Other research interests include Epidemiology | Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Diana LiuResearch Associate, Division of Medicine Other research interests include Cancer |
Andrew MacAskillSir Henry Dale Fellow, 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. Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Substance Abuse |
Rosalind McAlpinePhD Student, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Serious Mental Illness | Psychosocial | Substance Abuse | Wellbeing |
Kate MerrittResearch Fellow, 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 | Neuroscience | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
David OsbornProfessor of Psychiatric Epidemiology, Division of Psychiatry David's main research interests are the interface between physical and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology and the provision of effective and safe interventions for people with severe mental illnesses including psychosis. He has published related work over the last 20 years in journals such as The British Medical Journal, British Journal of Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry/JAMA Psychiatry. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Epidemiology | Physical Health | Mood Disorders |
Steven PapachristouLecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology and Human Development Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Serious Mental Illness | Cognition | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Giulia PiazzaPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Cognition | Neuroscience | Psychosocial Gary PriceConsultant Neuropsychiatrist , Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Psychological Interventions | Neuroscience | Cognition |
Oliver RobinsonICN Group Leader, 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: www.oliverjrobinson.com Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Cognition | Psychological Interventions |
Jonathan RogersWellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Jonathan Rogers is a researcher in the UCL Division of Psychiatry specialising in neuropsychiatric disorders, and particularly catatonia. His current research involves investigating the neurobiology of catatonia using epidemiological, neuroimmunological and neuroimaging techniques. He is also interested in psychopharmacology and the psychiatry of COVID-19. Other research interests include |
Jonathan RoiserProfessor of Neuroscience and Mental Health, 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 | Cognition | Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Physical Health | Psychological Interventions |
Argyris StringarisProfessor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 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 UCL. 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 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 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). 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 | Epidemiology | Mood Disorders | Neuroscience Muhammad Waqar Ashraf BhattiClinical Psychologist, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Wellbeing | Mood Disorders | Health and Social Care | Sexuality | Neuroscience |
Vincent ValtonNIHR UCLH BRC Fellow - Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include |
Justin Christopher YangResearch Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Substance Abuse | Serious Mental Illness | Mood Disorders | Epidemiology |