Psychopharmaco Lab general

Lab head: Dr Sean Fallon

The Psychopharmacology Laboratory works to understand the factors that affect individual variation in response to drugs.

Lab Resources

This lab combines use of behavioural, physiological and imaging techniques, including:

• Pharmacology: Dopamine-altering compounds (e.g., methylphenidate) and novel agents

• Anxiety/Pain models: CO₂ inhalation to induce transient anxiety, experimental pain paradigms

• Physiology: Biopac with ECG and EDA recording

• Neuroimaging: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and fMRI to track vascular and neural responses