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About Us

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.

Meet our Team

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.

Latest Key Publications

Our methodologies include psychopharmacological challenges, neuropsychological testing, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and functional neuroimaging with fMRI, MEG and PET in healthy volunteers, patient and at-risk groups.

Current Studies

We have a range of studies currently running for healthy participants and people experiencing low moods, mostly at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford.

Outreach

It is very important to us that we engage with the community to raise awareness about mental health and to provide opportunities for people of all backgrounds to have an input to our work.

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Meet the Team

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.

Our Leadership Team
Catherine Harmer

Director of PERL

Catherine Harmer

Susannah Murphy

Associate Professor

Susannah Murphy

Welcome to PERL

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Learn about our work

See our most recent key publications.

Join the team

See here for opportunities and testimonials of what it is like to work with PERL.

Participate in research

Learn more about what it involves to participate in our studies.

Want to learn more about us?

Click below to view our page on the Oxford Department of Psychiatry website. 

Thank you for your interest!

If you are experiencing low moods or depression and would like advice or support, please read our mental health support page.