Dr Charlotte Crisp

Dr Charlotte Crisp is a cognitive neuroscientist specialising in sleep, circadian rhythms and mental health, in particular depression and psychosis.

Charlotte is interested in how we can characterise circadian misalignment in young people, how it relates to poor mental health and how we can better support young people to regulate their circadian rhythms. She works work with healthy participants and clinical populations and uses fMRI imaging.

As part of her BRC research, Charlotte works with Professor Ian Penton-Voak and Dr Helen Bould on:

• Identifying neural markers of an adjunct therapy (Cognitive Bias Modification) for people with depression using fMRI
• Investigating the relationship between attention towards lower-weight bodies and body dissatisfaction using eye-tracking
• Understanding whether psychological therapies for mental health could be improved if delivery timing was synchronised to individual chronotype

Charlotte is funded by the BRC and is uniquely positioned across both Bristol Medical School and the School of Psychological Science (TARG research group).