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Leah Mayo is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Linköping University, where her research focuses on neurobiology, stress, and emotion processing in healthy and clinical populations. Her work presents psychiatric conditions characterized by dysregulated stress reactivity and emotional responding. She aims to understand the interplay between stress and emotion processing and to develop novel therapeutic approaches for psychiatric disorders. Her methodology combines behavioral, psychophysiological, and neuroimaging techniques to gain insights into how individuals perceive and react to stressful situations and emotional stimuli. Dr. Mayo has a particular interest in the role of the endocannabinoid system, a neuromodulatory system associated with stress reactivity and emotion processing. Her research delves into how external factors such as stress and substance abuse influence the endocannabinoid system in healthy populations, and how dysregulation of this system leads to impairments in stress and emotional reactivity within clinical populations. Ultimately, her goal is to identify the endocannabinoid system as a novel target for treating psychiatric disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience • Linköping, Sweden
Teaching and research in social and affective neuroscience.
Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience • Linköping, Sweden
Conducting research in neurobiology related to stress and emotion processing.
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