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 received her PhD in cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology from the VU Amsterdam, after completing a research MSc in cognitive neuroscience at Radboud University Nijmegen. 

Her research focuses on attention and learning in healthy adults, 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 hospital admissions and improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.

Research interests

• Attention and perception
• Reinforcement learning
• Autism and learning disabilities
• Computational psychiatry