Markella Grigoriou

 

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Markella

Markella is a PhD student whose research focusses on how the core negative symptoms of blunted affect and social withdrawal link to suicide in people with schizophrenia. During her time as PhD student she worked in several projects such as Birmingham Project with IBM whereas she won the first prize by implementing AI to solve social problems with the team she was leading.

PhD

Blunted affect, Social Withdrawal and Amygdala Responses and Suicide in Schizophrenia

This PhD focusses on how the core negative symptoms of blunted affect and social withdrawal link to suicide in people with schizophrenia. A secondary aim is to examine biomarkers using functional MRI.

Supervisors:

Professor Rachel Upthegrove

Professor Lisa Bortolotti

Dr Renate Reniers

Biography

Markella received her BA in Philosophy in Greece and then completed her MA in Cognitive Science at University of Birmingham. Now she is writing up her PhD in Psychiatry at University of Birmingham. Markella also works as teaching assistant in Medical School and Psychology Department, teaching undergraduate modules on decision making in clinical practice, bioethics, neuroscience of belief formation and research methods. She is also a part-time researcher in Early Intervention Team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS.

Research interests

Suicide

Negative Symptoms

Emotion expression

Schizophrenia

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