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Competitive advantage
- Leading expertise in developmental affective science
- Innovation in intervention development
- Novel app and online assessments to assess cognition and mental health across the lifespan
- Taking a lifespan approach to mental health: from the womb to old age
Impact
- Opening new avenues for the prevention and treatment of mental health
- Taking the lab into the world by moving research online and onto apps allowing for more diverse and population-representative research participation
Successful outcomes
- High impact engagement with policy makers and leaders in society (speaker at World Economic Forum)
- Affective control training app: applied across age groups and clinical populations to improve mood and showing associated neural changes
- Citizen science engagement through the development of the Emotional Brain Study app, national and international Science Festival talks, demonstrations, and workshops
Capabilities and facilities
- Translational research programme from basic neuroscience to intervention development and evaluation
- Laboratory, online and app-based testing platforms for cognition and mental health assessment
- Online capabilities allow for rapid deployment in crisis to track the impact of external and social developments on mental health across the lifespan (CORAL study: investigating COVID-19 Risks Across the Lifespan)
- Experimental design of novel paradigms to assess cognition and affective function across age
- Theoretical expertise, statistical expertise including longitudinal and large-scale data analysis