My current research investigates how the brain changes when we learn. I am studying how you can learn to modify your brain activity in real-time through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) neurofeedback and how this could eventually become a novel neurotherapy. I am also researching the brain characteristics of entrepreneurial thinking and how these evolve with experience and success; the aim is to design neuroscience evidenced-based entrepreneurial thinking education. I also occupy a leading education role, both within the department, as Neuroimaging Education Lead, and at faculty level, as Chair of Faculty Postgraduate & Online Assessment Boards and Technology Enhanced Learning Academic Lead. I believe that nothing is too difficult to teach, especially when making full use of contemporary pedagogical approaches, of e-learning technologies, and of the vast amount of open resources available online.

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Key publications:

• Rubia et al., 2019. Functional connectivity changes associated with fMRI neurofeedback of right inferior frontal cortex in adolescents with ADHD. NeuroImage.
• Orlov et al., 2018. Real-time fMRI neurofeedback to down-regulate superior temporal gyrus activity in patients with schizophrenia and auditory hallucinations: a proof-of-concept study. Translational Psychiatry.
• Alegria et al., 2017. Real‐time fMRI neurofeedback in adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Human Brain Mapping.

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Key collaborators:

• Professor Katya Rubia, King's College London
• Dr Sagnik Bhattacharyya, King's College London
• Julie Devonshire OBE, King's College London