Better gut microbiome function
Overview
This project focuses on finding new, active ingredients that help improve anxiety in adolescents and young people and contribute to the development of a super-discipline of mental health science.
Funder
Wellcome Trust, FrieslandCampina Ingredients, The Netherlands
Collaborators
In collaboration with Dr Jennifer Lau, Kings College London and Professor Glenn Gibson, University of Reading
Researchers
Dr Kathrin Cohen Kadosh
Reader in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Biography
I read for my PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London and went on to receive postdoctoral training at University College London, King's College London, the National Institutes of Health, USA and the University of Oxford.
Since 2016, I am an associate professor in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Surrey, and head of the Social Brain & Development (SBD) Lab.
As a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, I use a combination of behavioural tests and brain-imaging techniques to understand how improving cognitive abilities and changes in brain function and structure shape the emerging social brain network.
I am also investigating the role of the microbiome gut-brain axis on behaviour and brain function in development, together with the Brain NUtrition Gut Microbiome group, a multidisciplinary research group at the University of Surrey.
Dr Jennifer Lau
Reader, Kings College London
See profile Professor Glenn Gibson
Professor, University of Reading
See profileResearch themes
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