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Cognition, Emotion and Mental Health Programme
The Cognition, Emotion and Mental Health Programme (CEMHP) is one of 2 programmes in the Emotion Group at the CBSU. The CEMHP is led by Tim Dalgleish.
The CEMHP has two goals: 1) to utilise a developmental cognitive neuroscience framework to understand the core processes involved in the onset maintenance and recovery from mood and anxiety disorders. 2) to translate this understanding to generate novel forms of psychological intervention for mood and anxiety disorders in children, adolescents and adults and to provide greater clarity concerning the mechanisms of action of existing treatments for these groups.
Our research is guided by the MRC's framework for developing complex interventions and occupies a trajectory ranging from basic cognitive neuroscience through to randomised clinical trials. This work in the CEMHP is grounded within a transdiagnostic framework, taking the view that he greatest potential for understanding and treating affective disorder is to focus on maladaptive underlying psychological (and biological) processes that cross traditional diagnostic boundaries, rather than pursue diagnosis-led research. We use cognitive-experimental, psychophysiology, and neuroimaging methodologies in the laboratory and prospective longitudinal and clinical trial designs outside the laboratory.
Our basic and pre-clinical science is carried out at the CBSU. Our clinical research is carried out at the Cambridge Centre for Affective Disorders (C2:AD) directed by Tim Dalgleish.
More detail about our current research projects and the work of individual programme members can be found by following the links below.
- Members of CEMHP
- Current research projects
- Emotion Group publications
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- Link to the Emotion Group pages
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