Ye Wo

I am a first-year DPhil student at the Psychopharmacology and Emotion Research Lab (PERL) supervised by Prof Catherine Harmer and Dr Susannah Murphy. My research interest lies in the neurocognitive mechanism underlying the effect of SSRI treatments among young people. Currently, my study involves conducting qualitative interviews with young individuals who have encountered irritability during episodes of depression. By directly engaging with their firsthand experiences, we aim to refine our comprehension and assessment methods of irritability in depressed youth. This groundwork will lay the foundation for my future work, which further investigates the mechanisms underlying treatment effectiveness and potentially explain the differential impacts of various medications.

Prior to my DPhil, I graduated from MSc Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and received a Bachelor in Science degree from McGill University.