I completed my PhD at Newcastle University, UK in 2010. My research interests centre around the neuropsychology of mood disorders (especially bipolar disorder) and borderline personality disorder (BPD). This area has gained significant ground over the last decade and continued research aims to understand more about mood disorders, their various manifestations, and their wide-ranging consequences for the individual. My own interests include understanding the implications of neuropsychological impairment for patients with mood disorders as well as understanding what these mean to the individual and for their quality of life.

One of my other major interests is emotion processing - investigating whether individuals with psychiatric illnesses show differences in the way they process emotional stimuli, such as facial or vocal expressions, which may relate to their symptoms. After many years involved with the programme of research in the Department of Academic Psychiatry at Newcastle, I left in August 2010 to pursue clinical training.

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If you would like to find out more information about studies currently underway simply click the link to my current research. I sometimes have studies available online as well as studies that you can come and take part in in person.