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• Dr Deep Adhya
  We have recently shown that the in-vitro neural tube structure, the ‘neural rosette’ is affected in autism induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived neurons. This suggests that an autism diagnosis has genetic and epigenetic influences affecting...
• Miss Lucie Aman
  I am working on psychosis in Prader Willi syndrome. PWS is a rare genetic disease characterised by hyperphagia, poor muscle tone, intellectual disability, and mental health problems such as depression anxiety and psychosis. PWS is caused by the l...
• Dr Jennifer Barnett
  I'm a psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist with some training in genetics and epidemiology. I’m interested in how genetic and environmental factors affect cognitive functions and mental health throughout life. This includes the development of...
• Professor Simon Baron-Cohen
  The Autism Research Centre (ARC), of which I am Director, has 6 programs of research, all focusing on Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC): (a) Perception and Cognition (investigating social and non-social cognition and sensory processing); (b) Neu...
• Professor Andrew Bateman
  In June 2019 I left "Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation" where I developed my research strategy that has three themes: i) development of assessments, ii) development and immplementation innovative therapeutic interventi...
• Miss Izabele Batkovskyte
  My primary research interests concern the mechanisms underlying the heterogeneity of presentations and outcomes in psychosis. I am also working on the Psychosis Risk Outcomes Network (ProNET) study, which aims to identify multimodal biomarkers sp...
• Saashi Bedford
  My research focuses on using neuroimaging to try to parse the heterogeneity observed in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. I am particularly interested in sex differences, subgrouping, and brain-behaviour relationships.
• Professor German Berrios
  I am interested in the study of psychiatric symptoms (e.g. hallucinations, delusions, obsessions) appearing in the context of neurological disease. Since the 19th century, the view that 'mental symptoms' seen in the context of neurological diseas...
• Richard Bethlehem
  I am director of neuroimaging at the Autism Research Centre and will be joining the department of psychology as an assistant professor of neuroinfomatics in 2023. My work focuses on understanding lifespan changes in brain development and ageing fr...
• Dr Stephanie Brown
  I am interested in studying the degenerative brain changes in people with Down’s syndrome using sophisticated brain scanning techniques. Recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allow high resolution images of the brain using 7 Tesla MR...
• Professor Ed Bullmore
  I am interested in understanding human brain network organization from neuroimaging data in health and disease. My recent methodological work has focused on graph theory to measure aspects of brain network topology. I am also interested in bette...
• Dr Rudolf Cardinal
  Clinical informatics (including data capture and the proper use and analysis of routinely collected NHS data); computational psychiatry (including computational models of mind and behaviour); behavioural/cognitive neuroscience; liaison psychiatry.
• Dr Stephen F. Carter PhD
  As a cognitive neuroscientist my principal research interest is understanding the pathological cascade of Alzheimer’s disease in humans primarily with PET biomarkers of amyloid and tau. My research uses techniques that include high-resolution neur...
• Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti
  My research group is based at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics at the University of Reading. We study emotion perception, empathy, and autism using functional MRI, eye gaze tracking, and psychophysiology. I am happy to co...
• Dr Leonidas Chouliaras
  My research interests include the role of epigenetic mechanisms in neurodegeneration, and particularly in Lewy Body Dementia, Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment. My projects focus on genome-wide profiling of DNA methylation and hyd...
• Dr Isabel Clare
  I work in the Cambridge Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Group in the Dept. of Psychiatry and as a a senior member of the Enduring Disability and/or Disadvantage clinical theme in the NIHR's CLAHRC East of England. My research in...
• Dr Lesley Cousins MRCP DPhil.
  I am interested in the effects of antidepressant medication on the teenage brain both in terms of structural and functional development. I am also interested in trying to understand why some depressed teenagers are prescribed antidepressants where...
• Professor Jeff Dalley
  Primary research interests include behavioural and cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology and neuromodulation of limbic cortico-striatal brain circuitry. Specific interests include behavioural and neurobiological endophenotypes and their trans...
• Dr Héloïse de Vareilles
  I am investigating the links between brain folding pattern and schizophrenia using anatomical MRI. I am also assessing genetic causes of variable cortical folding.
• Mr Richard Dear
  I am a PhD student at the Brain Mapping Unit supervised by Petra Vertes and Ed Bullmore. I'm interested in using computational techniques to understand the neurobiology of mental health, with a particular focus on revealing the underlying biologic...
• Miss Lena Dorfschmidt
  I am interested in the principles of whole-brain network organization in health and disease. I work on resting state MRI data in order to model trajectories of adolescent cortical development and identify disruptions in functional connectomics dur...
• Maria-Eleni Dounavi
  I am a Research Associate at the department of Psychiatry (Old Age Psychiatry research group). My research is focused on multi-modal MR brain imaging and utilisation of state-of-the-art image processing tools to investigate early changes occurrin...
• Dr Robert Dudas
  I have carried out research projects on cognitive impairment in the context of progressive-degenerative dementias and affective symptomatology. My current interest in dementia spans from risk factors to clinical management. I have also investiga...
• Chaitanya Erady
  Transcriptomic analysis of an inflamed subgroup of major depressive disorder (MDD) patients.
• Professor Karen Ersche
  My research focuses on the neuropsychological correlates and neurochemical processes underlying addictive behaviour and the translation of this knowledge into therapeutic interventions. This work involves a combination of approaches including neur...
• Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea
  My research interests are mostly the biological and clinical aspects of chronic schizophrenia. I’m the Clozapine Clinic Lead for the local MH Trust (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust). We study treatment resistant schizophrenia ...
• Johanna J. S. Finnemann
  My primary research interests concern sensorimotor integration and somatosensation which I investigate from a computational as well as experimental point of view. In particular I aim to understand how optimal control, predictive processes, motor l...
• Professor Paul Fletcher
  I am interested in psychosis. I agree with the long tradition of clinical psychiatric research which suggests that, during a psychotic illness, the world is a strange place because strange associations are formed and inconsequential stimuli are as...
• Dr Tamsin Ford CBE
  My research focuses on interventions and services to optimize the mental health of children and young people. Both mental health and services are interpreted broadly to include wellbeing as well as distress rather than children exceeding somewhat ...
• Ms Jessica Fritz
  My main research interest is the study of resilience in individuals who have experienced childhood adversity. Resilience can be described as a process of positive adaptation following exposure to childhood adversity. Childhood adversity is strongl...
• Dr Julieta Galante
  I am a full-time researcher with a background in public health medicine. My research interests lie on mental health promotion and the effects of lifestyle on health. My main focus has been studying the effects of meditation on mental health, which...
• Dr Liliana Galindo MD PhD
  I am a psychiatrist; my PhD was in neuroimaging in psychosis (UAB). I am a Professor Ad Honorem of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Colombia. I am interested in translational research in psychiatry, especially in psychosis, and in novel psy...
• Professor Susan Gathercole
  I am a cognitive psychologist with interests in memory, learning and language. Until 2018 I was the Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) in Cambridge and am now based in Developmental Psychiatry. One strand of my research in...
• Professor Ian Goodyer FMedSci
  I am a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist based at Cambridge University pursuing research into the connections between human development and psychopathology. My studies are centred on adolescents in the community as well as current patients. Our re...
• Professor Juan Manuel Gorriz
  The SIPBA group use computational and mathematical approaches based on the statistical learning theory to develop computer-aided diagnosis systems in the field of neuroscience. SiPBA aim to provide supporting tools to physicians in the early diagn...
• Ms Juliet Griffin
  I study the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the formation and stubborn persistence of delusions and other psychotic symptoms in psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia. I am interested in how the brain uses uncertain information (parti...
• Mrs YUANJUN GU
  My research primarily studies the genetic origin of sex differences and heterogeneity presented in neurodevelopmental conditions, such as Autism.
• Dr Kshipra Gurunandan
  My work focuses on the brain bases of learning and memory processes, especially as they relate to complex functions such as language, and how these change over the lifespan. I'm interested in experience-dependent brain plasticity, i.e. what become...
• Professor Richard (Rik) Henson
  My primary interest concerns how we remember things. Specifically, I use the techniques of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electro- and magneto- encephalography (EEG/MEG) to examine brain activity as healthy volunteers try to reme...
• Miss Hannah Hickinbotham
  PIMS Trial
• Farah Hina
  Most work on psychosis focuses on hallucinations and delusions but there is good evidence that understanding psychosis requires a deeper consideration of body and self. Our sense of self arises from the integration of multiple brain inputs, includ...
• Professor Tony Holland
  The focus of our interdisciplinary research is on learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities/mental handicap) from different perspectives. Research to date has had the following main themes. First, the relationship between specific genetical...
• Dr Ayla Humphrey PhD
  Ayla Humphrey, Lead for Children and Young People’s Psychology, CPFT and Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Her interest is in the advancement of services for children & families; early identificatio...
• Dr Baland Jalal PhD
  Dr Baland Jalal's research interest is neuropsychiatry, with a focus on how technology (e.g., smartphone apps) and innovative treatments can make psychiatry more transportable and accessible (the theme of his PhD done at Cambridge University - wit...
• Professor Peter Jones
  The Cambridge “epiCentre” group works at the interface between population-based research, neuroscience and clinical psychiatry in order to understand the causes, mechanisms and treatments for psychosis (particularly schizophrenia) dementia, depres...
• Dr Jonathan Kanen
  I completed my PhD as a Gates Scholar. Much of my work has centred on the neurochemical modulation of affective and behavioural control, with a special emphasis on serotonin. I seek to connect pharmacological challenge studies with deficits in psy...
• Dr Muzaffer Kaser
  I am a psychiatrist interested in brain substrates of cognitive impairments associated with psychiatric disorders, I investigate the mechanisms underlying cognitive dysfunction in depression and potential treatments.
• Dr Manfred Kitzbichler
  Having a physics background, I am applying general concepts to the analysis of brain activation. This involves both fMRI and MEG, resting state as well as task related data. In particular I am interested in understanding the spatio-temporal dynami...
• Dr Meng-Chuan Lai
  As a clinician scientist, my vision is to bridge and integrate multi-level biological-cognitive-psychological-social research and clinical services. My clinical interests are in the risk and resilience processes across the lifespan in individuals ...
• Dr Christelle Langley PhD
  The effects of serotonin on cognition and functional mechanisms in the brain; Cognitive enhancement through apps in neurological disorders; Cognitive and neural changes in early premanifest Huntingtons disease
• Dr Michael Lombardo
  I am interested in understanding the mechanisms occurring in early development that are behind atypical brain development in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Elijah Mak
  I am a Gates Cambridge scholar working on my PhD at the Department of Psychiatry. Broadly, my research interest relates to the use of multi-modal neuroimaging techniques to characterise structural and functional deficits in dementia and related co...
• Professor Tamar Makin
  My main interest is in understanding how our body representation changes in the brain (brain plasticity). My primary model for this work is studying hand function and dysfunction, with a focus on how we could use technology to increase hand functi...
• Dr Luis Manssuer BSc, MSc, PhD
  I work in the research group of Professor Valerie Voon. The lab uses a range of methods to understand the neural basis of neuropsychiatric disorders. My primary role in the lab is to make sense of intracranial neurophysiological data acquired from...
• Dr Elizabeth McKiernan BA, MSc. MBChB, MRCPsych
  I am an Old Age Psychiatry trainee and Alzheimer's Society Clinical Research Fellow working towards a PhD in Psychiatry under Professor John O'Brien. My primary research interest is in using ultrahigh resolution MRI to investigate neurodegenerativ...
• Miss Chantal Miller
  My research aims to identify the mechanisms underlying different stages of psychotic illness. In particular, I am interested in the idea that the brain relies on hierarchical Bayesian inference, a process that may become derailed in disorders such...
• Marcella Montagnese
  My main area of theoretical interest is reality distortion in psychosis and its underlying neurocognitive and physiological mechanisms. My current work focuses on the application of computational models of reinforcement learning (RL) in patients w...
• Dr Anna Moore
  Developing earlry identification tools for child mental health by linking administrative, biomarker, genetic and phenotypic information.
• Dr Laura Moreno-López
  I am interested in the study of the neuroanatomical mechanisms of resilient functioning in adolescents and young adults exposed to early life adversities.
• Dr Sarah Morgan
  My research applies machine learning, network science and Natural Language Processing to better understand and predict brain development, cognition and mental health. I am an Accelerate Science Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science...
• Dr Graham Murray
  I work on the causes, brain mechanisms and treatments of mental disorder. I utilize a variety of neuroscience techniques, including statistical genomics, brain imaging, computational psychiatry, pharmacological and neuropsychological studies in pa...
• Professor Pradeep Nathan
  I am a clinical pharmacologist with research interests in the neuropharmacology and neural substrates of cognition and emotion and psychiatric and neurological endophenotypes. I use cognitive, functional and molecular neuroimaging techniques (i.e....
• Dr Sharon Neufeld
  I am a quantitative psychologist interested in understanding the course and interplay of multiple domains of mental health in children and young people. I am currently funded by a 5-year Wellcome Trust award to elucidate mental health treatment ef...
• Dr Nicolas Nicastro
  I am a Swiss board-certified Neurologist with a strong interest in dementia and movement disorders. My research focuses on molecular PET/SPECT and structural MRI imaging in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson disease, especially as early diag...
• Jennifer Noh
  My research focuses on the development and use of a mobile-based clinical assessment system that collects different sets of physiological, psychological, and behavioural data from individuals with intellectual and learning disabilities.
• Dr Camilla Nord
  I am Group Leader at the University of Cambridge, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, and Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Christ’s College Cambridge. My lab investigates the neural, cognitive, and computational ...
• Professor John T O'Brien
  My research interests include the role of biomarkers, especially MRI, SPECT and PET imaging, in the differential and early diagnosis of dementia, including identifying those 'at risk' of future cognitive decline and developing markers of onset and...
• Professor Jesus Perez
  My research activity is mainly focused on early detection and intervention in psychosis. I am particularly interested in the epidemiology and psychopathology of people at high-risk of developing psychosis, with psychotic experiences and with first...
• Dr Benjamin Perry
  I am a Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, and a Higher Trainee in General Psychiatry in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. I recently completed an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Department. I'm interes...
• Anujan Poologaindran
  Originally from Toronto (Canada), I am a neuroscientist at Cambridge (UK) working on building a life in academic medicine. My scientific work intersects at functional neurosurgery, behavioural neuroscience, and brain mapping with a special focus ...
• Camice Revier
  My research is aimed at expanding the evidence and understanding of the relationship between sleep and social recovery in psychosis. With a secondary aim of examining the mediating effects of changes in cognition as part of the causal pathway. The...
• Ms Colleen Rollins
  Broadly, I'm interested in the behavioural and neuroanatomical correlates of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. My current research focusses on using a multimodal approach combining structural and functional neuroimaging data and cognit...
• Dr Rafael Romero-Garcia
  I’m a computer science engineer interested in how complex brain networks change across different physiological and pathological conditions. During my PhD in neuroscience at the Pablo de Olavide University (Spain) I analysed cortical network disrup...
• Amber Ruigrok
  Amber Ruigrok is a researcher at the Autism Research Centre, Dept of Psychiatry. Amber's PhD research investigated how testosterone and variation in the androgen receptor may be involved in the development of sex differences in human brain white m...
• Professor Barbara Sahakian FMedSci DSc
  My research is aimed at understanding the neural basis of cognitive, emotional and behavioural dysfunction in order to develop more effective pharmacological and psychological treatments. The focus of my lab is on early detection, differential dia...
• Dr George Savulich
  Cognitive enhancement in neuropsychiatric disorders and in healthy people; the impact of technology on older age mental health; the effects of novel psychoactive substances on cognition and emotion; and information-processing biases in psychosis.
• Dr Nikolina Skandali MD PhD MRCPsych MSc
  I am a psychiatry registrar in Addenbrooke's hospital and an Academic Clinical Fellow with the Dpt of psychiatry working with Professor Valerie Voon. I am interested in decision-making, impulsivity and compulsivity, and the underlying neural mecha...
• Dr Saurabh Sonkusare
  I have primarily been trained and worked as a medical doctor (MBBS) with a subsequent PhD in Neurosciences from QIMR Berghofer/The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. I utilise neuroimaging (LFPs, fMRI) and neuromodulation tools (TMS) ...
• Miss Eva-Maria Stauffer
  I am interested in the relationship between genetic variations and brain structure and function in psychiatric disorders. My current projects focus on schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.
• Dr James Stefaniak
  I am a neuroscientist and psychiatrist interested in cognition and its impairment following acute (e.g. stroke) and progressive (e.g. dementia) brain damage as well as psychiatric disorders.
• Dr Jan Stochl
  I serve as psychometrician and statistician. I am currently working on psychometric properties of scales used in psychiatry. I am interested in latent variable modeling - structural equation modeling, item response modeling, latent class modeling,...
• Dr Li Su
  I lead Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience group (http://www.aicn-group.com). I am Chair of Neuroimaging in Neuroscience Institute at University of Sheffield and Principal Research Fellow (Professor Grade 11) at Department of Ps...
• John Suckling
  Can neuroimaging improve patient outcomes? We are looking at ways neuroimaging - the combination of brain imaging and computational methodologies - can have a direct impact on the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of developmental conditions, co...
• Dr Ajenthan Surendranathan
  I am a Specialist Registrar in Neurology working under the supervision of Professor John O'Brien at the University. My research is focused on Lewy Body Dementia, in particular its diagnosis utilising imaging and biomarkers.
• Miss Julia Szacilo
  I am currently working as a research assistant on an international study called ProNET (Psychosis-Risk Outcomes Network), investigating high risk psychosis using a variety of biological and cognitive biomarkers. I am working for the Cambridgeshire...
• Dr Jenny Tillotson
  This research crosses neuroscience, design, scent, biotechnology, complementary therapies and AI and combines wearable technology with biometric and connected sensors.   Using aroma-based stress management strategies, anxiety can be reduced using ...
• Dr Ben Underwood MA MBBS PhD FRCPsych CertMedEd
  I am a consultant old age psychiatrist in Cambridge. I am interested in novel therapeutic approaches in dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease. I completed my PhD with David Rubinsztein looking at autophagy up-regula...
• Natalie Valle Guzman
  I work on different studies investigating disorders of motivation and impulsivity, both with healthy volunteers as with patients with various disorders. I am responsible for participant recruitment and management of the research, and I help run s...
• Professor Anne-Laura van Harmelen
  Anne-Laura van Harmelen is an affiliated researcher at the department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Van Harmelen is professor of Brain, Safety and Resilience at the Institute of Education and Child Studies at Leiden University in the Net...
• Dr Petra Vertes
  I lead the Systems and Computational Neuroscience group in the Department of Psychiatry, and I am a fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. I am also one of the co-founders of the Cambridge Networks Network - a forum for academics across different d...
• Professor Valerie Voon
  Why do we repeat behaviours that we know are bad for us? Or make impulsive poorly considered decisions? These decision making processes are relevant in our daily lives and can be hijacked in disorders of pathology. The Voon lab spans across Camb...
• Dr Varun Warrier
  My team works on social and genetic factors that influence neurodevelopment, and mental health. We have a particular interest in investigating heterogeneity in outcomes to develop targeted support and therapy for those who need it. This publicat...
• Miss Margaret Westwater
  My primary scientific aim is to examine the interaction between peripheral metabolic signaling and neural activity in individuals with healthy and disordered eating behaviors. This work involves measurement of metabolic functioning (e.g., body com...
• Dr Simon White
  Developing methodology to address issues when applying Bayesian longitudinal modelling with missing data, Bayesian sample size and study design, or large scale simulation studies to applications in neuroimaging, cognition and ageing.
• Dr Joyce Whittington
  Early research on specific learning disabilities - dyslexia - and associated cognitve deficits. For the last 10 years research has focussed on various prevalence, cognitive and behavioural aspects of Prader-Willi syndrome. Most of the latter is d...
• Dr Paul Wilkinson
  Until December 2020, Paul Wilkinson is University Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. His main research interests are the epidemiology and treatment of self-harm and depressi...
• Dr Noham Wolpe
  I am a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Psychiatry. My broad interest is in the interplay between cognition and action in humans. More specifically, my previous work has been on volition, perception of action and cognitive contributions to m...
• YAFAN WU
  Student in computational neuroscience
• Dr Gwyneth Zai
  My research area focuses on the genetics and pharmacogenetics of psychiatric disorders. Almost all psychiatric disorders are complex and heterogeneous in nature and my research aims to identify homogeneous phenotypes, specifically cognitive profi...
• Dr Rashid Zaman FRCPsych
  I am a psychiatrist and researcher interested in collaborative and translational research in number of psychiatric disorders, including, ADHD, Bipolar Affective Disorder, Depression, OCD and Schizophrenia. I am also intersted in neuromodulation t...
• Dr Shahid Zaman
  The main theme of our research is to understand the role of amyloid, tau, inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction in the genesis of cognitive impairment and dementia in people with Down's syndrome.
• Dr Hisham Ziauddeen MRCPsych PhD
  I am a Senior Clinical Research Associate working with Prof. Paul Fletcher. I work on brain reward systems using pharmacological fMRI and behavioural measures, to study the role of environmental influences and opioid and dopaminergic systems in co...

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