Clinical and Applied Behavioural Research Group
Advancing psychology through research on health, behaviour, and neuropsychology.
About us
The Clinical and Applied Behavioural Research Group (CABRG) explores diverse topics in health, clinical, behavioural and neuropsychology, publishing over 100 journal articles. Members work with national and international researchers, securing significant private and public sector funding. Research spans purpose-built labs and NHS clinical partnerships. The group supports PhD students conducting research in clinical and non-clinical settings.
Projects and grants
- Addiction: drug and alcohol misuse, smoking
- The role of conditioning in substance misuse, and smoking behaviour
- Behaviour change interventions targeting diet, exercise, and alcohol consumption, impulsivity and risk-taking in clinical and non-clinical groups
- Emotion: coping and burnout
- Health inequalities
- Metacognitions in emotional disorders
- Psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Professional quality of life, well-being and quality of care
- Schizophrenia: neurobiology in high-risk populations, cognitive functioning and genetic risk
- Influence of mindfulness on cognitive processes and wellbeing
- Cognitive function in lymphoma patients.
- Vandrevala T (co-PI). Developing and Delivering targeted SARS-CoV-2(COVID-19) health interventions to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities living in the UK. (2020-21), UKRI/NIHR.
- Vandrevala T (co-PI). Primary prevention of cytomegalovirus in pregnancy: addressing the gaps (2020-21), National Institute of Health Research, Policy Research Programme.
- Vyas NS (PI). Cognitive testing facilities. UKRI World Class Laboratories (WCL) Fund (2020-21).
- Vyas NS (PI). Cognitive functioning in patients with lymphoma. CResCID grant (2020-21).
- Vyas NS (PI). Neurocognition in psychosis. CResCID grant (2020-21)
People and collaborators
- Research group head: Professor Ana Nikcevic
- Dr Georgia Butler
- Dr Cristina Martinelli
- Dr Louisa Pavey
- Dr Amanda Rotella
- Dr James Tapp
- Prof Philip Terry
- Dr Tushna Vandrevala
- Dr Noura Vyas
- Lailah Alidu
- Victoria Barber
- Kristin Hanson
- Dawn Leach
- Anna-Marie Degas
- Amy Montague
- Lara Quartel
- Helen Chrissie Pike
- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, UK
- Imperial College, London, UK
- Kyoto University, Faculty of Medicine, Japan
- McClean Hospital, Harvard University, USA
- National Institute of Mental Health, USA
- Studi Cognitivi, Modena, Italy
- University of Birmingham, UK
- University of Padova, Italy
- University of Surrey, UK
- University of Sussex, UK
- University of California, San Diego, USA
- Brunel University
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- St. George's, University of London.