All posts tagged: Citizen Science

Outreach Projects

Our goal is to make scientific research accessible beyond a scientific audience. Through our outreach events we have connected with the public by creating a space for scientists and the community to have inspiring conversations. Our flagship outreach project “OCD and the Brain” – a project co-produced with people with lived experience and OCD charities – has recently won the 2024 ERC Public Engagement with Research Award. Some of our previous outreach events include: Royal Society Lates: what’s on your mind? Brain Explorer and OCD and the Brain had taken over the Wolfson Library Suite as a part of an evening exploring brains and cutting-edge neuroscience research. New Scientist Live We joined the MRF (Medical Research Foundation) to bring Brain Explorer to New Scientist’s celebration of science and innovation. Interested in our outreach projects and our studies? please reach out: Contact

Q&A with Lead Researcher Tobias Hauser Featured on Nature Mental Health

We are thrilled to announce that a compelling Q&A session with Tobias Hauser, head of the Developmental Computational Psychiatry lab, has been published on the Nature Mental Health website. In this exclusive interview, Tobias delves into his groundbreaking research in the advancing field of Computational Psychiatry and discusses innovative approaches to understanding and addressing mental health challenges. To read the full Q&A with Tobias Hauser, please visit: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-024-00231-3

Brain Explorer Research App released

Why do most mental health illnesses first manifest before adulthood? Our group has launched a new smartphone app to investigate how brain development is linked to mental health in a new citizen science project. The Brain Explorer app (www.brainexplorer.net) uses the latest state-of-the-art insights from neuroscience research to investigate brain functions in fun and entertaining games for young and old. By playing these games, people can learn about their own brain functions, and at the same time help the researchers to better understand how brain functions are related to the emergence of mental health problems. “We know that the brain changes substantially during adolescence”, says Dr Tobias Hauser, lead scientist on the project, “but we do not know how impaired brain development causes mental health problems. This app will help us understand why mental health problems arise during adolescence.” A better understanding of how abnormal brain development leads to mental health problems will allow researchers to build new models to predict emerging psychiatric illnesses and can help develop novel interventions. Everyone can contribute to research …