Professor Nazanin Derakhshan

Nazanin Derakshan is a Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck University of London and a former Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in Experimental Psychopathology. She has conducted extensive research into the effects of anxiety and depression on cognitive performance. Her recent work focuses on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of attentional control processes in emotional disorders. She has published a number of key papers in this area including highly cited theoretical articles. Her current work tries to understand how cognitive biases in attention, as well as deficits in attention regulation and inhibition, in anxiety and depression, can be improved by engaging and targetting top down mechanisms.

• Affective and Cognitive Control Lab Webpage
• GOOGLE SCHOLAR Personal Webpage
• BSc PhD (Lond)
• Professor of Psychology
• Director of the Affective and Cognitive Control Lab
  

Contact details

Office: Room 524, Department of Psychological Sciences
tel: +44 20 7631 6538
fax: +44 20 7631 6312
email: n.derakhshan@bbk.ac.uk
Labs: MERLiN (Mace Experimental Research Laboratries in Neuroscience)

About Professor Nazanin Derakhshan

• Career and awards
• Research
• Publications
• Supervision and teaching
• AFFECTIVE AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (ACN) LAB
• GOOGLE SCHOLAR Personal Webpage