Research
Mental Health, Women's Mental Health, PMDD, Sex Hormones, Cognitive Neuroscience, Nutrition
Interests
Paul Faulkner is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Psychology at the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London. His research focusses on mental health, primarily women's mental health and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). Via collaborations with both industry and academic partners, his work involves determining the utility of novel interventions for both women's and men's mental health, including those from the field of cognitive neuroscience such as non-invasive brain stimulation, and nutritional interventions. He is currently also interested in examining the role of lifestyle factors (particularly diet, sleep and exercise) on mental health, brain health and hormonal health, and how interventions based upon these factors can improve wellbeing.
After obtaining a BSc in Psychology from the University of Sheffield, Paul undertook an MSc in Neuroscience at King's College London, before obtaining his PhD on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of Depression from University College London (UCL) under the supervision of Professor Jon Roiser. Paul then completed his Postdoctoral training at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) with Professor Edythe London, where he examined the neural mechanisms of emotion dysregulation in substance users, and won a prestigious Young Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his work on the role of sex differences in such mechanisms.
His work has been published in prestigious journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine amongst others, and has been funded by the Medical Research Council, Innovate UK, the NIH in the US, and by various industry partners.
Interested collaborators and potential PhD students can contact Dr Faulkner at
p.faulkner@qmul.ac.uk
