Researcher at a glance
- Affiliation: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Orientation: Transdiagnostic clinical psychology and affective neuroscience: mental-health problems understood by the processes that cut across DSM categories (rumination, memory, emotion regulation, avoidance) rather than by diagnosis, with an emphasis on translating those processes into treatment
Key contributions
- Senior author of Nord, Lawson & Dalgleish (2021), the transdiagnostic mid-insula interoception meta-analysis — the clinical-neuroscience framing (RDoC-style cross-cutting mechanism, treatment-target reading) is his tradition.
- A leading proponent of transdiagnostic approaches to psychopathology (Dalgleish, Black, Johnston & Starr 2020, J Consult Clin Psychol), the conceptual backdrop against which the interoception paper’s cross-diagnostic logic is built.
- Long programme on emotion, autobiographical memory and emotion regulation in depression and PTSD, and their clinical application.
Key papers
Connections
- Debates: Is interoception domain-general or organ-specific?
- Related researchers: Camilla L. Nord, Rebecca P. Lawson
Cambridge clinical psychologist and affective neuroscientist at the MRC CBSU, and one of the field’s more prominent advocates of transdiagnostic thinking — the view that mental-health problems are better understood through the psychological processes that cut across diagnostic categories than through the categories themselves. That commitment is the frame the wiki meets him in.
In the wiki
He is senior author on Nord, Lawson & Dalgleish (2021). The paper’s guiding assumption — that a mechanism-level disruption might underlie interoceptive differences across depression, anxiety, anorexia and schizophrenia, and that finding its neural locus would be more useful than cataloguing per-disorder deficits — is a direct application of the transdiagnostic programme he has argued for elsewhere. See Interoceptive psychopathology, where the wiki’s transdiagnostic-interoception material lives, and Barr et al. (2022) for the comorbidity structure that warrants the frame. Thin page: one paper in raw/.