There are 3 fully funded 4-year PhD positions available (all start March 2022).

Please email me (robert.whelan@tcd.ie) if you have questions:

1. ‘Understanding the mechanism of action of methylphenidate in ADHD: A computational psychiatry approach‘. Both EU and non-EU fees will be covered. Click here for application information. This project will use a computational psychiatry approach to identify how brain mechanisms change in response to methylphenidate in children with ADHD. We combine the computational modelling with brain data, which will be recorded using two separate approaches: electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

2. ‘Mobile EEG in ADHD‘. Click here for application information. This research will use mobile electroencephalography to study medication effects in ADHD. Data collection will span several weeks and tasks will be gamified to maintain engagement. The goal will be to identify neurocognitive processes predicting who will respond clinically to methylphenidate.

3. ‘Application of computational models to ADHD‘. Click here for application information. Here, we propose to use neurally informed computational models derived from behaviour and electroencephalography to decompose medication effects on distinct neural mechanisms. Interrogating this immense amount of data will be addressed by using computational model parameters as inputs into machine learning algorithms.