I completed my Bachelor degree in Chemistry at Northern Kentucky University and then work at the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the US National Institutes of Health.  I started working at the Institute of Psychiatry in 1997 and was awarded a PhD in 2014. 

My main research interests are in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders.  Currently, I am leading a pharmaco-challenge of the serotonin system in Autism Spectrum Disorder. This involve neuroimaging using functional MRI. 

I am the programme lead on the MSc in Clinical Neurodevelopmental Science. 

I recently co-edit the Serotonin System: History, Neuropharmacology and Pathology with Dr Mark Tricklebank 

Research Interests

• Developmental Neuroscience 
•  Autism 
• Serotonin  
• Pharmaco-challenge studies using brain imaging  

Research Groups

AIMS-2-Trials https://www.aims-2-trials.eu