Sarah Kerins joined King’s College London as a placement student in 2014 and returned in 2017 as a researcher in the Department of Psychosis Studies. Her academic background spans cognitive neuroscience and clinical research, with expertise in electroencephalography (EEG), Clinical High Risk (CHR) for psychosis, and schizophrenia.

She holds a First Class BSc (Hons) in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Westminster and is currently completing her PhD at King’s College London. Her doctoral research investigates biomarkers of transition to psychosis in CHR populations, with a focus on early intervention and neural circuit instability. This work integrates auditory, visual and resting state paradigms with advanced EEG techniques, including steady-state responses, time-frequency decomposition, and frequency burst analyses.

At King’s, she has contributed to multiple clinical research and review publications and has supervised BSc and MSc student projects in early intervention in psychosis, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology.

Research Interests

• Neural circuit instability and inhibitory interneuron dysfunction prior to psychosis onset in the context of the excitatory/inhibitory imbalance model of schizophrenia
• Auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs) and steady-state harmonic responses (SSHRs)
• Auditory and visual event-related potentials (ERPs), particularly theta dynamics and predictive processing
• Resting-state EEG markers with a focus on theta and beta burst analyses• Clean EEG set-up: specialising in inclusion of all hair types
• Development of dynamic, individualised EEG-based indices of neural instability• Biomarkers of clinical outcome in high-risk and early psychosis
• Supervision interests: EEG/ERP research, computational psychiatry, cognition in CHR/psychosis

Research Groups

Sarah Kerins is a Member of the Early Psychosis: Intervention and Clinical-detection Laboratory (EPIC Lab) in the psychosis studies department at KCL.

Teaching

MSc Dissertation and Research Supervision