• Neuroscience imaging
    Neuroscience imaging
  • EEG for psychology research
    EEG for psychology research
  • Animal Behaviour
    Animal Behaviour
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Welcome to The Centre for Brain and Behaviour

Our research focuses on the psychology and neurophysiology of human and non-human species: development, mechanisms, challenges (psychopathology), and triumphs (well-being). We emphasise an interdisciplinary approach focused on the interface between psychology (cognition, communication, and social life) and biology (genomics, neuroscience, and ethology). 

Our translational research programs aim to address urgent societal challenges and needs: we are advancing interdisciplinary research in mental health, adaptive decision making and positive social interactions. Our Centre has access to specialised equipment for studying human cognition (electroencephalography, eye movement tracking, transcranial magnetic stimulation), sleep and exercise labs, a portable social observation lab, as well as wet lab facilities for studying animal behaviour and neuroscience using insect, zebrafish and mice models. Further strengthened by computational modelling and social psychology research, the Centre is particularly well placed for multidisciplinary translational science, building bridges from fundamental neuroscience to individual mental health research to the network science of social interactions. 

Our research is supported by a broad range of funding bodies, including the UKRI Councils (BBSRC, MRC, ESRC, AHRC, EPSRC), major private foundations (the Wellcome Trust, the Leverhulme Trust) and other charitable funds. 

News

Recent Publications

  • “There is no hope; only strong wind”: How climate change impacts adolescent mental health in southern Madagascar
    Hadfield K, Sulowska M, Rasolomalala N, Solomon S, Ramaroson S and Mareschal I
    The Journal of Climate Change and Health, Elsevier vol. 23 
    01-05-2025
  • Event knowledge and object-scene knowledge jointly influence fixations in scenes
    Heer S, Pedziwiatr MA, Bex P, Coutrot A and Mareschal I
    Visual Cognition, Taylor & Francis, 1-17.  
    29-04-2025
  • Moving Toward Transdiagnostic Dimensional Models of Neurodiversity and Mental Health (and Away From Models of Psychopathology)
    Morris I, Michelini G and Wilson S
    Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, American Psychological Association (Apa) 
    28-04-2025

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Recent Grants

  • Investigating the combined impact of behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders on education.
    Margherita Malanchini, Giorgia Michelini and Jessica Agnew-Blais
    £943,596 Medical Research Council
    01-06-2025 - 31-05-2028
  • Grant Transfer - Do inferences drawn from object properties influence saccade planning and perceptual updating?
    Emma Stewart
    £32,659 German Research Foundation (DFG)
    17-03-2025 - 31-12-2025
  • Brain Injury, Sleep and Cognition - Untangling the long term Impact of childhood TBI (Michael Yoong)
    Michael Yoong and Bosiljka Milosavljevic
    £66,357 Barts and the London Charity
    01-03-2025 - 31-08-2026

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