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Full NameDr Claire Gillan
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience
Trinity College Dublin
Webpage:gillanlab.com
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- neuroscience and mental health
- Psychiatry
- Public Health
- Dementia
- Neurology
- Neuropsychiatry
The Gillan Lab at Trinity College Dublin uses cognitive neuroscience to better understand, predict and treat mental health problems, tackling issues that are psychiatric, developmental, neurological and associated with advancing age. We aim to understand mental health problems in terms of their underlying biological mechanisms. While some issues might best understood in terms of clusters or categories, others may reflect dimensions that are observable in the general population. We use cognitive neuroscience to test these opposing possibilities, seeking to empirically validate new and improved mental health phenotypes. The fundamental premise being that any brain health taxonomy should be biologically plausible, that the defining characteristics of a cluster or dimension should relatively homogenous and discrete. We believe that reforming nosology in this way is essential for identifying robust biomarkers, reliable genetic associations and appropriate animal models of mental health problems.
Read a write-up about our work in this area in Scientific American: https://medium.com/health-and-disease/taking-mental-health-research-to-a-new-dimension-c9ed58f059bf#.z2b6iay29