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.

December 14, 2020

Brain Explorer Research App released

Why do most mental health illnesses first manifest before adulthood? Our group has launched a new smartphone app to...

by Tobias Hauser

November 9, 2020

ERC Starting Grant awarded

It is our great pleasure to announce that Tobias was awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to...

by Johanna Habicht

September 7, 2020

Why is it important to study mental health in youth?

In the light of today’s Youth Mental Health Day we discuss why it is important to study how and...

by Johanna Habicht

Welcoming Tricia to our team!

We are excited to announce that Tricia Seow has joined our lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She has done...

by Johanna Habicht

Papers

A rise of OCD: OCD symptoms are more affected by the Covid-19 pandemic than other mental health symptoms.

In our new preprint, we present data of our longitudinal study in which we tracked obsessive-compulsive, anxiety and depression symptoms in the general public during the first Covid-19 pandemic...

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Making a case for a computational psychiatry of juvenile obsessive-compulsive disorder

In a recent paper published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, we review studies relevant to a computational psychiatry of juvenile OCD. Our investigation shows that juvenile OCD is mainly characterised by the...

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Myelin-related growth during adolescence related to compulsivity and impulsivity traits

In a recent paper that we recently published in Nature Neuroscience, we present data from a longitudinal cohort study (the NSPN project). We repeatedly acquired MRI scans from over...

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Papers on exploration and model-free behaviour

I had the pleasure to co-author two papers that provide substantial new insight nto the mechanisms underlying cognition. In a recent paper by Nitzan Shahar, he assesses the reliability...

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Propranolol modulates Information Gathering

In a recent paper that we have just published in Journal of Neuroscience, we show that Information Gathering can be modulated using the noradrenergic Beta-Receptorblocker Propranolol. Upon a single...

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