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I was born and raised in Athens, Greece; I then studied Physics, my first love. I studied Medicine, physiology and psychiatric research methodology while carrying out early mathematical modelling relevant to psychiatry. I earned specialist medical registration as a psychiatrist in Psychotherapy in 2009. I did my PhD a bit later, where I carried out experimental (clinical-psychological) and computational (temporal-difference and ideal bayesian observer) studies of paranoid delusions. My supervisors were amazing: Richard Bentall, Peter Dayan, and Wael El-Deredy. I live in England with my (musician) wife and we have two adult children.

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Experience

Clinical Lecturer

University College London (UCL)

Apr-2012 to Present

Publication

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Reinforcement learning as an intermediate phenotype in psychosis? Deficits sensitive to illness stage but not associated with polygenic risk of schizo...

Background Schizophrenia is a complex disorder in which the causal relations between risk genes and observed clinical symptoms are not well understood and the explanatory gap is too wide to...

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Childhood socio-economic disadvantage predicts reduced myelin growth across adolescence and young adulthood

Socio-economic disadvantage increases exposure to life stressors. Animal research suggests early life stressors impact later neurodevelopment, including myelin developmental growth. To deter...

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Neurocomputational mechanisms underpinning aberrant social learning in young adults with low self-esteem

Journal : Translational Psychiatry

Low self-esteem is a risk factor for a range of psychiatric disorders. From a cognitive perspective a negative self-image can be maintained through aberrant learning about self-worth derived...

  • dott image February, 2020

Multiple Holdouts With Stability: Improving the Generalizability of Machine Learning Analyses of Brain–Behavior Relationships

Background In 2009, the National Institute of Mental Health launched the Research Domain Criteria, an attempt to move beyond diagnostic categories and ground psychiatry within neurobiologic...

  • dott image August, 2019

Brain-behaviour modes of covariation in healthy and clinically depressed young people

Understanding how variations in dimensions of psychometrics, IQ and demographics relate to changes in brain connectivity during the critical developmental period of adolescence and early adu...

  • dott image Graham Murray
  • dott image August, 2019

SA97COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHIATRY MEETS GENETICS: REINFORCEMENT LEARNING IN EARLY PSYCHOSIS AND IN RELATION TO CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR GENETIC RISK FOR SCHI...

Computational psychiatry offers opportunities for increased mechanistic understanding of mental disorder and to aid in the integration between psychiatry and neuroscience. By developing an...

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Compulsivity and impulsivity traits linked to attenuated developmental frontostriatal myelination trajectories

The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a period when ongoing brain development coincides with a substantially increased risk of psychiatric disorders. The developmental brain change...

  • dott image June, 2019

Compulsivity and impulsivity traits linked to attenuated developmental frontstriatal myelination trajectories

A transition from adolescence into adulthood corresponds to a period where rapid brain development coincides with an enhanced incidence of psychiatric disorder. The precise developmental bra...

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Change, stability, and instability in the Pavlovian guidance of behaviour from adolescence to young adulthood

Pavlovian influences are important in guiding decision-making across health and psychopathology. There is an increasing interest in using concise computational tasks to parametrise such infl...

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Personality dimensions emerging during adolescence and young adulthood are underpinned by a single latent trait indexing impairment in social function...

Journal : BMC Psychiatry

Background Personality with stable behavioural traits emerges in the adolescent and young adult years. Models of putatively distinct, but correlated, personality traits have been developed ...