Pharmacology
Michael BloomfieldPrincipal Clinical Research Fellow,ÌýDivision 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.Ìý He has been awarded an Excellence Fellowship from °×С½ãÂÛ̳, 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.Ìý 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 |
Elvira BramonProfessor of Neuroscience and Mental Health,ÌýDivision 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 CognitionÌý´¥ÌýNeuroscienceÌý´¥ Serious Mental IllnessÌý´¥ Genomics George ChapmanHonorary research fellow, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Neuroscience | Older Adult Mental Health | Serious Mental Illness |
Ravi DasAssociate Professor,ÌýDivision of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include NeuroscienceÌý´¥ | Serious Mental Illness ´¥ÌýSubstance Abuse |
James GilleenSenior Lecturer,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry Other research interests include NeuroscienceÌý´¥ Psychological Interventions ´¥ÌýWellbeing ´¥ÌýSerious Mental IllnessÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýCognition |
Lisa Marie GruenwaldClinical Trial Manager and PhD Student,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry Other research interests include Serious Mental IllnessÌý´¥ÌýPsychological InterventionsÌý´¥ÌýPsychosocialÌý´¥ÌýPhysical Health |
Zoë HaimePhD Student,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry Other research interests include Cognition | Psychological Interventions | Serious Mental Illness | Eating Disorders |
Tobias HauserPrinciple Research Fellow,ÌýQueen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýCognitionÌý´¥ Digital Health ´¥ÌýNeuroscience |
Joseph HayesPrincipal Research Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry Research areas: Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness ´¥ÌýMood Disorders | Physical HealthÌý´¥ÌýEpidemiology ÌýLecturer, Institute of Education Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Children and Young People's Mental Health | EpidemiologyÌý Sunjeev KambojProfessor of Translational Clinical Psychology,ÌýDivision of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological InterventionsÌý´¥ TraumaÌý´¥ÌýSubstance abuse |
Karel KieslichPhD Student,ÌýInstitute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Neuroscience | Substance AbuseÌý´¥ÌýMood DisordersÌý´¥ÌýEpidemiology |
Glyn LewisProfessor of Epidemiological Psychiatry,ÌýDivision 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 DisordersÌý| Psychological InterventionsÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health |
Diana LiuResearch Associate,ÌýDivision of Medicine Other research interests include Cancer |
Andrew MacAskillSir Henry DaleÌýFellow,ÌýDivision 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.ÌýÌý Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýMood DisordersÌý´¥ÌýNeuroscienceÌý´¥ÌýSubstance Abuse |
Rosalind McAlpinePhD Student,ÌýDivision of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Mood DisordersÌý| | Serious Mental Illness | Psychosocial | Substance Abuse ´¥ÌýWellbeing |
Kate MerrittResearch Fellow,ÌýDivision 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 ´¥ÌýEpidemiology | NeuroscienceÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health |
David OsbornProfessor of Psychiatric Epidemiology,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry David'sÌýmain researchÌýinterests 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.ÌýHe 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,ÌýDepartmentÌýof Psychology andÌýHuman Development Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Serious Mental Illness | CognitionÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health |
Giulia PiazzaPhD Student,ÌýInstitute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | CognitionÌý´¥ Neuroscience | Psychosocial Gary PriceConsultant NeuropsychiatristÌý,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Psychological Interventions | NeuroscienceÌý´¥ Cognition |
Oliver RobinsonICN Group Leader,ÌýInstitute 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 | Neuroscience | CognitionÌý´¥ Psychological Interventions |
Jonathan RogersWellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry Jonathan Rogers is a researcher in the °×С½ãÂÛ̳ 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.ÌýHe is also interested in psychopharmacology and the psychiatry of COVID-19.Ìý Other research interests include |
Jonathan RoiserProfessor of Neuroscience and Mental Health,ÌýInstitute 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 HealthÌý´¥ÌýCognitionÌý´¥ÌýMood Disorders ´¥ÌýNeuroscienceÌý´¥ÌýPhysical HealthÌý´¥ÌýPsychological InterventionsÌý |
Argyris StringarisProfessor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,ÌýDivision 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 °×С½ãÂÛ̳.ÌýHe 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 toÌýdepression 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 randomisedÌýcontrolled 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).ÌýClinically, 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 HealthÌý´¥ÌýEpidemiology | Mood DisordersÌý´¥ÌýNeuroscience MuhammadÌýWaqarÌýAshrafÌýBhattiÌýClinical Psychologist, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Psychological InterventionsÌý´¥ Psychosocial | Wellbeing | Mood DisordersÌý´¥ Health and Social Care | Sexuality ´¥ÌýNeuroscience |
Vincent ValtonNIHR °×С½ãÂÛ̳H BRC Fellow - Postdoctoral Researcher,ÌýInstitute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include |
Justin Christopher YangResearch Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry Other research interests include Substance Abuse | Serious Mental Illness | Mood Disorders | Epidemiology |
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