MSc Applied Neuroscience:
Completed with Distinction!
Robert is actively looking to join a lab as a motivated full-time Research Assistant! Well versed in the theory behind most major research techniques, and adept at achieving fluency in new skills, he would quickly become an asset to any lab. While he is open to researching a wide variety of topics with humans, his current research interests generally revolve around the interface of experience and generative cognition: self-transcendence behaviors & cognition, language, salience landscaping/predictive cognition, imagination & creativity, theories of consciousness and awareness, psychotic delusions/hallucinations/self-disturbances, and mindfulness-related practices (including breathwork).
He would love to spend the next couple years performing research and administrative work in a lab, familiarizing himself with bureaucratic administration/interplay at a participatory level of resolution.
Please reach out to robertleetoms@gmail.com if you are aware of any opportunities!
Highlights:
Completed MSc with Distinction in August 2023
Wrote Master’s Thesis titled “Evidence and Implications of Self-Distancing in Psychosis and Mindfulness Practices: A Narrative Synthesis”
Received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Student Performance in the Psychology and Neuroscience of Psychosis, for achieving the best grade of the few hundred MSc students taking the module
MSc Thesis:
“Evidence and Implications of Self-Distancing in Psychosis and Mindfulness Practices: A Narrative Synthesis”
More details available on Writing page.
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Select Courseworks:
TOPIC:
Moncrieff and Middleton (2015) propose that ‘The current concept of schizophrenia is neither valid nor useful’. Evaluate the empirical basis for this claim, and what an alternative system could look like.
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Discuss biomarkers in the context of a neurodevelopmental disorder introduced in this module (Epilepsy, Autism and Schizophrenia). Include in your discussion the relationship between the biomarker and the disorders’ aetiology/symptoms. Your essay should present data from relevant literature, discuss the concept of stratification biomarkers and findings from a variety of models and techniques. (Autism)
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Critically discuss the following assertion:
The dopamine hypothesis is valid but insufficient to understand and treat schizophrenia.
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