Our work focuses on recognising and treating the root causes of mental health problems to identify intervention targets. This is called causal analysis. Some examples of our work include:
- Establishing the effects of adolescent alcohol use on cognitive processes and psychopathology in young adults, and investigating the contribution of adolescent drinking on liver function and fibrosis
- Determining causality of cannabis/tobacco for psychosis, and whether omega-3 fatty acids and other nutrients (e.g. perinatally) affect schizophrenia and other neurodevelopmental outcomes such as autism
- Identifying targets for brief, automated, computer-based interventions that can modify biases and deficits in emotion recognition to treat depression