Dr Claire Hales
BSc, PhD
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My research combines rodent behavioural experiments with computational modelling to improve our understanding of the cognitive processes, neural pathways and brain areas underlying psychiatric disorders.
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Biography
I am currently working as a post-doc in the Robinson lab as part of a four year BBSRC
Industrial Partnership Award in collaboration with the German pharmaceutical company-
Boehringer Ingelheim. The project is a continuation of the research I started in my PhD
entitled "Investigating the neural circuits and molecula rmechanisms which regulate
emotional behaviour and cognitive affective bias". Specifically, my research involves
using a reward-based operant judgement bias task alongside techniques to target neural
pathways thought to be important in the regulation of affective biases, as well as RNA
sequencing to investigate the neural circuits and molecular mechanisms underlying the
rapid onset antidepressant efficacy of ketamine.