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My PhD addressed potential candidate processes that underpin social cognition breakdown in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). I devised novel cognitive visual and auditory paradigms and used structural brain MRI and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) techniques to establish neuroanatomical associations. My NIHR lectureship will investigate emotional change after traumatic brain injury (TBI) through interoceptive tasks (emotional self-awareness) and relating these to physiological and neural network dysfunction. I will be using psychophysiological, structural and functional neuroimaging techniques. My research interest is in transsyndromic emotional change as a consequence of diseases with a particular focus on processes relevant to social cognition. The ultimate goal is improved understanding of neurobehavioural mechanisms to inform targeted interventions.
I have been the recipient of the following external grants:
Academy of Medical sciences Starter grant for Clinical Lecturers ‘How we understand our emotions: Is alexithymia following traumatic brain injury a generalised failure of interoception?’ in 2021
and Rosetree Seedcorn grant ‘Are persistent symptoms following mild traumatic brain injury due to a failure of interoceptive processes’ in 2024
I have established key collaborations with Imperial College London and University College London. Professor David Sharp’s group at Imperial is one of the two most innovative and well-resourced teams investigating the consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the UK. Professor Sarah Garfinkel (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London) is a world leader in autonomic affective neuroscience (interoception) and neuroimaging with a particular interest in heart-brain interactions.
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