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Research Labs

MC: Mental Health and Clinical Sciences Lab

MC Lab investigates into the complexities of mental health, examining the developmental risks and pathways of psychopathology across the lifespan. Its research ambitiously spans a range of interconnected topics, from neurobiological mechanisms and clinical interventions to psychotherapy and service delivery, adopting a dimensional and developmental perspective to explore the full spectrum of psychopathology, supported by cutting edge digital technologies. MC lab studies focus on the etiology of psychopathology, risk/protective factors, symptomatology course, and prognosis of psychological adjustment across the lifespan. We adopt a transdiagnostic approach by exploring how dimensions of psychopathology are underlined by common environmental factors and neurobiological mechanisms. The full continuum of severity in the expression of psychopathology is considered by covering healthy, at-risk, subclinical, and clinical populations. As such, our group orchestrates efforts towards exploring transactional relationships between biobehavioural,personality, and interpersonal factors implicated in developmental pathways and risk/protection actors influencing human adaptation with the ultimate goal of informing intervention practices, namely those with a preventive emphasis.