The Cambridge Psychiatry Symposium took place on Wednesday, 21st November, 2018 at Trinity College. The event featured a keynote from Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a group debate on the ability of psychiatry research to inform legal proceedings, and presentations from the department’s graduate students listed below. The symposium also served as a welcome to our 15 new graduate students who started in Oct 2018 and participated in the debate.
Jessica Fritz: Do resilience factors (RFs) fluctuate from early to late adolescence? An investigation of RF networks and RF mean levels
April Le: Neurophysiological biomarkers of dementia in Down Syndrome
Sharon Neufeld: Does mental health treatment promote family functioning to mitigate distress in young people
Ayla Selamoglu: Impairments in cognitive tasks in cannabis dependent individuals
Miroslav Vassilev: Neuropsychology of Female CEOs
Alexander Campbell: Machine learning for neruoimaging
Colleen Rollins: Quantifying brain morphology and connectivity related to the presence of hallucinations in early-phase psychosis (and beyond)
Matthew Leming: Classification of functional connectome databases using convolutional neural networks
Luca Villa: The brain’s response to treatment in adolescent depression
Camice Revier: Exploring sleep as a therapeutic target to improve social recovery in early psychosis and the potential mediators of change
Lucie Aman: Markers of risk of psychosis in Prader-Willi Syndrome
Tsen Vei Lim: Investigating reinforcement learning in stimulant drug dependence
Meijun Zhou: Beliefs and attitudes towards mental health help-seeking among medical students
Nele Perenboom: Development of a smartphone-based intervention for cognitive bias modification in addiction
Elizabeth Weir: The physical health of autistic adults
Sarah Hampton: Autistic mothers’ experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period
Marianne Kovacs: Exploring the vulnerabilities of young people with special education needs during their transition to adulthood
Tanya Procyshyn: Oxytocin effects on brain connectivity and salivary hormones in females with and without autism
Alexandros Tsompanidis: The aromatisation of androgens: testing steroidogenic excess in autism
