At PERL, 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 contributes to the development of treatments.
In the year 2024, PERL had:
The group comprises a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacologists and neuroscientists and aims to explore these questions using human models of cognitive and emotional processing. Meet the whole team by clicking below.
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Psychopharmacology and Emotion Research Laboratory