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The UK’s first national pledge calling on senior leaders in NHS mental health trusts, public bodies and commissioning to declare their commitment to reduce ethnic inequalities in mental health care launched 5 August 2020. The work to support this is led by the Synergi Collaborative Centre - a national five year initiative focused on eradicating ethnic inequalities in severe mental illness.
Translational NeuroStimulation Laboratory
Anxiety Behaviour Brain function Brain imaging Cognitive models Decision-making Depression Disorders Evidence based treatment Experimental Functional imaging Information processing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Mood Neuroscience Psychological therapy Psychology Therapy
We aim to understand processes of selective attention and action, learning and memory in the human brain. Through experiments in healthy volunteers and patients with brain disorders we seek to characterize how information processing networks respond (adaptively or maladaptively) when challenged by interference. Our motivation is to develop rational neurocognitive intervention strategies to help promote recovery from conditions such as depression and brain injury.
Computational Psychiatry
Anxiety Behavioural models Brain function Brain imaging Decision-making Depression Neuroscience
Using computer models of behaviour, we aim to better understand anxiety and depression, and to guide the development of novel treatments.
Psychopharmacology and Emotion Research Laboratory (PERL)
Anxiety Behaviour Behavioural models Bipolar Brain Brain function Brain imaging Cognitive Cognitive models Depression Experimental Functional imaging Mental illness Neuroimaging Neuroscience Psychology Treatment
We explore how the brain processes emotional information and how this is influenced by brain chemicals and medicines. This helps us to understand disorders such as depression and anxiety and to understand and contribute to the development of drug and psychological treatments.