Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the lab of Professor Angela Roberts at the University of Cambridge. I completed my PhD at the University of Bristol with Professor Emma Robinson.
My research has primarily focused on understanding how emotions are dysregulated in affective disorders, such as anxiety and depression. I am currently studying how different parts of the frontal lobe, called the prefrontal cortex, regulate behaviour and cardiovascular responses to rewarding or threatening situations. We hope that this work will help us understand how dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex contributes to these debilitating disorders.
Depression, anxiety and heart disease risk all linked to single brain region
Nov 08, 2020 11:27 am UTC| Health
Although depression and anxiety affect millions of people worldwide, theres still much we dont know about them. In fact, we still dont fully understand which brain regions are involved in depression and anxiety, and how...
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