Abbie is a specialist trainee in general adult psychiatry, she completed her core psychiatry training as an Academic Clinical Fellow in Cambridge. She studied Medicine at the University of Manchester and completed an intercalated MSc in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience. She then did her Foundation training in York and obtained a PGCert in Health Research and Statistics. She is interested in research to better understand psychotic disorders using multiple methods, including different modalities of neuroimaging. Her PhD fellowship focuses on a neuroimaging study which investigates if a single dose of levetiracetam can help reduce hippocampal hyperactivity and improve cognition in people who are at risk of developing psychosis. This aims to provide important evidence about whether interventions that regulate the balance of excitation and inhibition in the brain could be a new way for understanding and treating psychosis early.