Sarah Buehler is a former MSc student in Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL), with a background in social science interested in gaining a better understanding of our brains ability to change throughout life. Previously studying the boundaries of brain plasticity using hand augmentation with the Third Thumb, Sarah is now with the Plasticity Lab as a Research Assistant working on the fMRI component of the BOLDkids project trying to understand the origins of motor development, adaptive behaviour and cortical reorganisation in a unique group of children with upper limb differences.
Sarah Buehler
Sarah Buehler is a former MSc student in Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL), with a background in social science interested in gaining a better understanding of our brains ability to change throughout life. Previously studying the boundaries of brain plasticity using hand augmentation with the Third Thumb, Sarah is now with the Plasticity Lab as a Research Assistant working on the fMRI component of the BOLDkids project trying to understand the origins of motor development, adaptive behaviour and cortical reorganisation in a unique group of children with upper limb differences.
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How can we model the brain when it goes awry? How Reinforcement Learning Models can shed light on Psychiatric Disorders that emerge during Development.
It is well-established that many psychiatric disorders initially emerge during the formative time periods of childhood and adolescence (Kessler et al., 2005; Paus, Keshavan, & Giedd, 2008), when the brain is consistently subject to growth and experience-related changes. This applies not only to classic neurodevelopmental disorders like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) but also to psychiatric disorders like depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which are often attributed to adulthood (Hauser, Will, Dubois, & Dolan, 2019).
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