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Melanie Lafanechere
Research Project Officer, mental Health Mission, University of Birmingham
Biography
I have a BSc in Psychology from Aston University and an MSc in Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Birmingham. I have worked at the University of Birmingham since 2020, where I started as Research Associate investigating the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on the motor areas of the cortex.
I then joined the Primed+ Lab as a Project Officer for Professor Upthegrove where I worked on the multi-site international project, PRESCIENT; investigating the longitudinal trajectories of Psychosis in clinically high-risk populations and then on the PIMS Trial which is double-blind randomised placebo trial that investigates an anti-inflammatory in First Episode Psychosis patients.
I then took a career break to travel for 7 months and returned to the lab to work on EPICare, which is a co-designed, evidence-based, stakeholder-informed framework for the build, implementation, and evaluation of a national integrated digital registry and clinical decision support system for Psychosis, that will be implemented at several NHS Mental Health Services, and eventually adopted by all NHS Mental Health Services in England.




