FutureNeuro PhD researcher Ellen Moore. Image: Ellen Moore
‘There’s been a shift towards greater use of social media in both science communication and engagement, which brings more people into the conversation.’
Ellen Moore is a FutureNeuro PhD student in the Gillan Lab at Trinity College Dublin, where she investigates mental health and cognition using brain mapping and real-time, smartphone-based data collection.
Moore explains to SiliconRepublic.com that there is a disconnect between how mental health conditions are described and how they manifest biologically.
“Specifically, research relies heavily on diagnostic labels like ‘depression’ or ‘anxiety’, which are useful but don’t map neatly onto how the brain actually works,” she says. “In reality, mental health symptoms tend to overlap and exist across a spectrum, rather than fitting into neat boxes.
