PhD Psychology - Behavioural Neuroscience

University of Nottingham

We study psychological and brain mechanisms underlying behaviour and psychiatric and neurological disease. We closely integrate research in human participants with research in rodent models. This allows us to translate detailed mechanistic insights from rodent models to people.One aim is to understand the conceptual basis of normal behaviour, using associative theories to provide explanations of key phenomena such as learning, attention, recognition memory and timing. Another central goal is to explain the neural mechanisms underlying these effects.A further important objective is to produce insights into the psychological symptoms and their neural mediation of a wide variety of pathological conditions, such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, addictive behaviours, stroke, and age-related cognitive impairment.

School of Psychology