Dr Brónagh McCoy is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.

Brónagh’s PhD was in cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology at the VU Amsterdam, after completing a research MSc in cognitive neuroscience at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Her research has focussed on attention and learning in healthy adults, and across neurodegenerative, neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions including Parkinson's disease, autism, and anxiety.

She is currently investigating the impact of NHS community-based Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews (C(E)TRs) on reducing psychiatric hospital admissions and improving outcomes for autistic people and people with a learning disability. This includes a study using electronic health records and the CRIS tool at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She is also project manager and researcher on the OptiCaT project, involving several studies including a prospective cohort study at 10+ NHS Trusts across England.

Research interests

• Attention and perception
• Mental health
• Autism
• Reinforcement learning
• Computational psychiatry

Teaching

Brónagh is co-lead of the 'Statistics for Mental Health Research I' module on the Mental Health Studies MSc programme. Brónagh also supervises and assesses MSc dissertation projects and is a personal tutor on the Mental Health Studies MSc and Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences MSc programmes.