Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research

Why do so many mental health problems emerge during adolescence? What are the developmental processes in cognition and brain that go awry and lead to psychiatric disorders?

The Developmental Computational Psychiatry lab uses modern cognitive neuroscience and computational modelling methods to understand how deviations from normative developmental trajectories can lead to the emergence of psychiatric symptoms and how we may be able to detect and intervene before such processes go awry.

Our lab is based at the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, and the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at University College London.
Our research is supported by Wellcome, Royal Society, Jacobs Foundation, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, Medical Research Foundation, and the Max Planck Society.

November 12, 2021

Tobias awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize

It’s our pleasure to announce that Tobias has been awarded a prestigious 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Psychology in...

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Flux workshop on computational modelling (17/09/2021)

In collaboaration with the Harley Lab we are giving a workshop on computational modelling in development. The workshop provides...

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Tobias named a FENS-Kavli Scholar for 2021

It is our great pleasure to announce that Tobias has been named a FENS-Kavli Scholar for 2021. He will...

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Article on teenage mental health in The Conversation

Last month, Tobias discussed in The Conversation how changes in the brain may explain why many mental health problems...

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Papers

How exploration develops and is linked to impulsivity

Chocolate, hibiscus or spinach ice-cream? Many decisions we make require arbitrating between novelty (e.g., hibiscus) and the benefits of familiar options (e.g., chocolate). This is called the exploration-exploitation trade-off...

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Reliability of web-based affective sounds

Conducting research experiments on web-based platforms have become common in recent years but some designs, especially tasks that involve sounds, have been slow in their online adaptation because of...

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Emerging metacognition allows adolescents to ignore false advice

Adolescents aspire for independence and are often accused of not following the advice of others. Here, we investigated metacognitive development and advice taking across childhood and adolescence. To do...

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Children gather more information when it is not costly

In our recent paper, we are investigating how information gathering changes over childhood and adolescence. We found that children gathered substantially more information before making a decision, but only...

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Propranolol modulates value-free random exploration

In our recent paper, we are investigating the catecholaminergic bases of different exploration strategies. Previously it was thought that exploration-exploitation trade-off is solved by using computationally demanding exploration algorithms,...

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