Laurel S. Morris
PhD
Prof. Morris is an Associate Professor in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Experimental Psychology. She is a cognitive neuroscientist who specializes in the development of cognitive and digital measures of motivation, self-agency, and reward and punishment processing. Prof. Morris also specializes in optimizing high-resolution multi-modal neuroimaging techniques for precision imaging and in the application biofeedback-based interventions for psychiatric symptom management. Her work applies these measures and tools to better understand depression, anxiety and addiction.
Prof. Morris is open to accepting new students.
Key publications
Effects of KCNQ potassium channel modulation on ventral tegmental area activity and connectivity in individuals with depression and anhedonia.
Journal article
Morris LS. et al, (2025), Mol Psychiatry, 30, 3686 - 3694
Cross-species dissection of the modular role of the ventral tegmental area in depressive disorders.
Journal article
Morris LS. et al, (2025), Neuroscience, 569, 248 - 266
Ketamine normalizes subgenual cingulate cortex hyper-activity in depression.
Journal article
Morris LS. et al, (2020), Neuropsychopharmacology, 45, 975 - 981
Fronto-striatal organization: Defining functional and microstructural substrates of behavioural flexibility.
Journal article
Morris LS. et al, (2016), Cortex, 74, 118 - 133