2007-present  Wellcome Clinical Training Fellow and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Oxford 2004-2007 Psychiatry Spr, Oxfordshire. 2004 MRCPsych 2001-2004 Psychiatry SHO, Maudsley Hospital 2000 MRCP 1998-2000 Medical SHO, Whipps Cross Hospital 1994-1997 MB.BS, Clinical Medicine, University of London 1991-1994 BA(hons), History of Art (and Medical Sciences), University of Cambridge

A tendency to preferentially attend to negative information is a characteristic of the anxiety disorders.  It is possible to experimentally modify attentional deployment using a simple cognitive procedure.  I am examining the neural machinery which supports this attentional modulation using fMRI as well as quantifying the effects of attentional modulation in clinical groups.

Publications

Browning, M., Holmes, E. A., & Harmer, C. (in press). The modification of attentional bias to emotional information: a review of techniques, mechanisms and relevance to emotional disorders. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Browning M, Reid C, Cowen P J, Goodwin GM and Harmer CJ (2007). A Single Dose of Citalopram Increases Fear Recognition in Healthy Subjects. Journal of Psychopharmacology 21(7): 684-690.

Herba C M, Heining M, Young A W, Browning M, Benson PJ, Phillips ML and Gray JA. Conscious and Nonconscious Discrimination of Facial Expressions. Visual Cognition 2007 15 (1): 36-47.

Browning M. Does being unusual and dangerous mean you are mad? Med Sci Law 1997 Jan;37(1):32-4.

Book Chapters

Bass C, Browning M. Liason Psychiatry in "An insider's guide to medical specialties" Ed Reckless et al. OUP, Nov 2006.

Contact

Michael.Browning@psych.ox.ac.uk