Liat Levita
Adolescent Development, Mental Health, Neuroscience and Imaging
Biological Psychology
The Biological Psychology group investigates the biology of thinking, feeling, and behaviour. Our research makes discoveries in the fields of learning and memory, ageing and dementia, reward and motivation, action and choice, social cognition, addiction, appetite and food preference, interoception, and the balance of energy supply and demand in the brain. We investigate healthy functions and disorders with a close translational relationship between our pre-clinical and clinical work.
Members of our group are associated with the Sensory Systems and Sussex Neuroscience strategic focus areas, and collaborate with colleagues in the School of Psychology, Life Sciences and the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Dr Liat Levita is the group leader.
Find out about our faculty's research:
Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn
Social Cognition, Interoception, Human Psychopharmacology
Pete Clifton
Feeding Behaviour, Serotonin
Hans Crombag
Criminal Law, Behavioural Neuroscience, Motivation
Gillian Forrester
Evolution, Development, Cognition, Neuroscience
Maria Hadjimarkou
Sleep, Mental Health, Wellbeing
Catherine Hall
Neurovascular Coupling, Systems Neuroscience, Dementia
Sarah King
Addiction, Alzheimer's Disease, Anxiety
Eisuke Koya
Food-related Learning, Neuronal Ensembles, Reward Systems
David Leavens
Non-Verbal Communication, Evolution of Language, Animal Behaviour
Liat Levita
Adolescent Development, Mental Health, Neuroscience and Imaging
Dominique Makowski
Sense of Reality, Consciousness, Emotions, Neuropsychology
Emiliano Merlo
Learning & Memory, Behavioural Pharmacology, Molecular Biology
Alexa Morcom
Cognitive Ageing, Episodic Memory, Brain Imaging
Kyriaki Nikolaou
fMRI, cognition and emotion, alcohol-use-disorders
Charlotte Rae
Action Control, Interoception, MRI
Bryan Singer
Addiction, Neuropsychopharmacology, Motivation
Martin Yeomans
Appetite, Flavour Perception, Food Preferences