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 17, 2019

Newest addition to our team

We are happy to announce that our group has expanded and Vasilisa Skvortsov has joined us as a Postdoctoral...

by Johanna Habicht

August 13, 2018

Sir Henry Dale Fellowship awarded

It is my great pleasure to announce that I was awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship from Wellcome Trust...

by Tobias Hauser

January 13, 2018

Interview with bornascientist

A friend of mine, Nora Raschle, recently launched an excellent website that provides lots of materials and facts around...

by Tobias Hauser

January 13, 2018

Jacobs Research Fellowship

I am very happy that I received a Research Fellowship from the Jacobs Foundation. This Fellowship will allow me...

by Tobias Hauser

Papers

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...

Papers

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...

Papers

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...

Papers

Information Gathering in Compulsivity

We just published a new paper in Translational Psychiatry, where we investigate information gathering behaviour across a compulsivity spectrum. Crucially, we recruited subjects with high or low obsessive-compulsive symptoms,...