Ali Tomlin

Ali is currently researching the neuropsychology of diabetes for a PhD at the medical school.

She has a background in psychology and neuroscience, having completed a first degree in psychology, conferring the graduate basis of registration for the British Psychological Society, and an MSc in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, during which she completed a research study at the Institute of Neurology, using immunocytochemical techniques to investigate a DNA repair protein, 06-methlyguanine methyltransferase (MGMT), and its effects on chemotherapeutic agents the chloroethyl nitrosoureas in the context of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

She is interested in the cognitive changes associated with diabetes, as well as wider aspects of cognition and neuropsychology.

She retains a keen interest in basic neuroscience, particularly in the areas of dementia and depression, and, outside the remit of the PhD, is also interested in the psychological and neuroscientific basis of anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Bipolar Disorder (BPD) and related immunology.

Ali has taken up the PhD after a short break from science where she worked as a press officer and photographer for a group of engineering companies.