Seminar · Behavioral Neuroscience
Modelling affective biases in rodents: behavioural and computational approaches
Claire Hales · Robinson lab, University of Bristol
Wed, Feb 10, 2021 · 17:35 UTC
My research focuses, broadly speaking, on how emotions impact decision making. Specifically, I am interested in affective biases, a phenomenon known to be important in depression. Using a rodent decision-making task, combined with computational modelling I have investigated how different antidepressant and pro-depressant manipulations that are known to alter mood in humans alter judgement bias, and provided insight into the decision processes that underlie these behaviours. I will also highlight how the combination of behaviour and modelling can provide a truly translation approach, enabling c