This research examines how maternal self-efficacy develops during matrescence, the transition to motherhood. Through interviews with new mothers and analysis of the SPACE programme, it shows that confidence in parenting grows not from perfection but from supportive environments, highlighting the need to rebuild community support for new mothers.

This research explores whether altering bodily sensations can change emotional experiences. By manipulating perceived heartbeat, blinking, and muscle tension through wearable devices and virtual reality, it demonstrates that emotions can be reshaped without changing physiology, opening new possibilities for treating trauma, anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental health conditions

This research shows that the sympathetic nervous system is disrupted at the earliest stages of ALS, despite sympathetic neurons themselves remaining intact. Early loss of signalling receptors may contribute to muscle degeneration and disease progression, identifying new opportunities for earlier diagnosis and therapies that preserve muscle function and improve patient outcomes.

This research investigates how loneliness affects brain function across adulthood. Using brain imaging, it identifies age-related differences in activity within the caudate, a region involved in social reward processing. The findings suggest loneliness alters how people perceive social interactions, supporting the development of personalized, age-appropriate interventions to reduce chronic loneliness.

This research explores how early-life stress alters the gut microbiome and its communication with the brain, challenging the traditional "leaky gut" theory of anxiety. Using a comprehensive, lifespan-wide approach, it identifies a potential new mechanism that could enable more personalized treatments for patients who do not respond to current anxiety therapies.

This research investigates how declining ovarian health influences brain aging and dementia risk. Using genetically engineered mouse models, it identifies inflammation and metabolic stress in the hippocampus associated with low egg quality, suggesting that treatments targeting menopause, hormonal imbalance, or insulin resistance could help protect cognitive health and prevent dementia.

This research demonstrates that moving visual stimuli can improve time perception to match the accuracy of auditory cues. Using a novel bouncing-ball experiment, it challenges the belief that hearing is always superior for judging time and offers new insights for assistive technologies, sports performance, human coordination, and cognitive psychology.

This research develops an affordable, scalable platform for recording electrical activity from brain organoids. Using innovative basket-shaped sensors made from a low-cost conductive material, the system enables simultaneous recording from dozens of mini-brains, accelerating drug discovery and improving our understanding of brain diseases with more human-relevant laboratory models.

This research investigates how the brain makes decisions under uncertainty by studying mice navigating reward-based mazes. Rather than relying on memorisation, mice continually update mental models through active exploration. These findings improve our understanding of anxiety disorders and may inspire more adaptive artificial intelligence systems.

This research challenges the long-standing assumption that brain regions causing no errors during awake brain surgery are functionally unimportant. By measuring subtle delays in speech rather than errors alone, it introduces causal parametric mapping, offering surgeons a more sensitive way to preserve language function and improve patient outcomes.