Dr Laura Marsh is a Trainee Clinical Psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.

She is doing research with the NEUROADS Lab, led by Dr Susannah Pick. Prior to her clinical training, Laura completed a PhD at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge.

Laura’s current research focusses on the mechanisms underlying functional neurological disorders and dissociative symptoms. Another strand of her work explores interactions between autobiographical memory, cognitive control processes, and mental health. More broadly, Laura is interested in translational research, using basic science to develop and enhance psychological interventions.

Research interests

• Dissociation
• Functional Neurological Symptoms
• Trauma-related difficulties
• Amnesia
• Autobiographical memory
• Sense of self
• Mind-body interactions
• Psychological interventions

Publications

Marsh, LC., Apšvalka, D., Abe, N., Kawaguchi, J., Kopelman, MD., Anderson, M.C. Prefontally mediated inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia. Psychological Medicine 54 (16), 4779-4787, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291724003040

Marsh, LC., Patel, SD., Smith, AJ., So, M., Armstrong, H., Elliot, R., Watkins, E., Moulds, M., Dalgleish, T., Hitchcock, C. (2023). From basic science to clinical practice: Do Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tasks benefit from enhanced episodic specificity? Behaviour Research and Therapy, 167, 104352, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104352

Marsh, LC., Anderson, M,C. (2022). Inhibition as a cause of forgetting. The Handbook of Human Memory, Volume 1: Foundations. Oxford University Press. Edited by AD Wagner and MJ Kahana. DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6bwc2

Marsh, L.C., Leach R.M., Blane J., Daly K., Barrett N., Slack A., Kopelman M.D. (2021) Cognitive and psychiatric outcomes following Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Respiratory Medicine, 183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2021.106419

Matsumoto, N, Mochizuki, S, Marsh, L.C, Kawaguchi, J. (2021). Repeated retrieval of generalized memories can impair specific autobiographical recall: a retrieval induced forgetting account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001028

Marsh, L.C., Guinan, E., Shah, E., Powell, M., Lowy, C., Kopelman, M.D. (2020) A prospective study of the cognitive and psychiatric effects of pituitary tumours and their treatments. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 75, 122-127,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2020.03.007

Harris L, Griem J, Gummery A, Marsh L.C, Defres S, Bhojak M, et al. (2020) Neuropsychological and psychiatric outcomes in encephalitis: A multi-centre case-control study. PLoS ONE 15(3): e0230436, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230436

Marsh, L.C., Edginton, T, Conway, MA, Loveday, C. (2018) Positivity bias in past and future episodic thinking: relationship with anxiety, depression and retrieval induced forgetting. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(3) 508–522, doi: 10.1177/1747021818758620.

Kopelman, M.D., Marsh, L.C. (2017). Autobiographical memory in amnesia. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 9, 219-227. doi: 10.1684/nrp.2017.0437