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Emotion Group
Exploring the relationship between emotion, cognition and mental health
We use a variety of research approaches including neuroimaging, neuropsychology, cognitive, psychophysiological, computational and clinical trial methodologies. We specifically investigate:
- The representation, elicitation, maintenance and control of emotion in healthy individuals
- How emotion relates to attention, memory and executive function
- How these processes may be disturbed in disorders of emotion, such as Depression, Anxiety and PTSD
- The development and evaluation of translational and novel therapeutic interventions for disorders of emotion
Emotion Group Members
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Group publications can be found here
Research in the Emotion Group is currently divided into two broad interacting streams:
- The Social and Affective Neuroscience Programme explores the organisation of emotional and social cognitive processes in the brain, overseen by Andy Calder
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The Cognition, Emotion and Mental Health Programme attempts to bridge the divide between basic psychological theory and clinical psychology interventions to better understand emotional disturbances, overseen by Tim Dalgleish. The clinical assessment and intervention research programmes are carried out under the umbrella of the Cambridge Centre for Affective Disorders (C2:AD).