Louisa is a post-doc in the Department of Psychiatry. Her interest in neuropsychological research began during her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Louisa's DPhil involved the use of MEG to evaluate the interaction of mood and emotion. The aim was to develop behavioural paradigms capable of exploring the spatial and temporal activation patterns of neural processing associated with neuropsychological function during various states of mind for use with functional brain imaging techniques including MEG and fMRI. She is particularly interested in the application of MEG to psychiatric disorders such as depression and treatments including mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and deep brain stimulation. After successful defense of her thesis she is now concentrating on writing up as many papers as possible resulting from the last few years research.