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Please join us on the 27 April 2021 to celebrate the innovative and exciting research taking place at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at Kings.

This year, the IoPPN Research Festival will be covering the theme ‘Across the Lifespan’.

With more than 20 five-minute talks on everything from the developing neonatel brains to the role of AI in dementia research, this online festival will also feature keynote talks by two world-class experts in their fields:

Professor Grainne McAlonanAutism across all ages: What does a vulnerable brain look like? Can we shift biology?

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Professor Terrie MoffittSurprises about psychopathology revealed by following 1000 people for four decades

Speakers and talks at this event

  • Professor Grainne McAlonan Autism across all ages: What does a vulnerable brain look like? Can we shift biology?
  • Professor Terrie Moffitt Surprises about psychopathology revealed by following 1000 people for four decades
  • Dr Tom McAdams Intergenerational Genetic Research: How it Has—and Will—Shed Light on the Causes of Psychopathology
  • Dr Lisa Nolan The impact of sex as a biological variable on the maintenance of auditory function across the lifespan
  • Professor John Marsden Cocaine Addiction: mental imagery and craving control
  • Dr Tatiana Salisbury Improving mental health: when expertise is not enough
  • Dr Matthew Grubb Getting nosey about brain repair
  • Dr Ralica Dimitrova Characterising heterogeneity in the developing neonatal brain
  • Dr Katherine Young Anxiety and Depression during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Chris Albertyn Dementia research in a digital age – the role of Artificial Intelligence
  • Dr Rina Dutta Data science to understand suicidality and self-harm in the digital age
  • Dr Rosalyn Moran Pushing Beliefs, Neuromodulators and Computational Psychiatry 
  • Dr Gemma Modinos Neurobiology of psychosis risk: From mechanistic to big data approaches
  • Dr Virginia Carter Leno Associations Between Theory of Mind and Conduct Problems in Autistic and Non-Autistic Youth
  • Dr June Brown Offering Accessible Early Interventions for Depression and Anxiety across the lifespan
  • Dr Lauren Carson The eLIXIR Partnership

(...with even more speakers still to be confirmed)