Eva Periche-Tomas

I am a clinical psychologist specialising in mood and anxiety disorders, with a strong interest in understanding the mechanistic drivers underlying the efficacy of psychological and pharmacological treatments. My work sits at the interface between clinical practice and experimental psychopathology, with a particular focus on reward processing, motivation, and factors influencing treatment response in depression.

My research interests include the role of inflammation and neurotransmitter systems in mood disorders, and how these biological processes interact with cognitive and behavioural mechanisms relevant to symptoms such as anhedonia and apathy. At the Psychopharmacology and Emotion Research Lab (PERL), I am involved in multi-site experimental medicine studies examining the behavioural and neural correlates of manipulating specific neurotransmitter systems in goal-directed behaviour.

Alongside my research role, I provide clinical cover and supervision for studies involving psychological assessment and interventions. Maintaining active clinical practice informs my research questions and interpretation of findings, while insights from experimental and clinical research directly inform my evidence-based clinical work, supporting a bidirectional translational approach aligned with real-world clinical challenges.