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Sam Ereira

Academic Clinical Fellow

Email: s.ereira@qmul.ac.uk

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I am an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and Core Psychiatry Trainee in East London, affiliated with the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health and the Centre for Preventive Neurology. My work combines clinical training in psychiatry with research in neuroscience, epidemiology, neuroimaging and mental health.

I completed my PhD at the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry, where I investigated the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying self-other distinction. This work contributed to computational approaches to understanding social cognition and psychiatric symptoms.

My current research focuses on the relationship between brain connectivity, social cognition, social isolation and dementia. I am particularly interested in using neuroimaging, epidemiological and computational methods to understand mechanisms of cognitive decline and to identify risk factors and markers that could support earlier detection and intervention.

I contribute to teaching and supervision within the Wolfson Institute of Population Health. I supervise students and teach on the MSc in Psychological Therapies, where I am co-lead for the module on Serious Mental Illness.

I also work externally as a Member of Clinical Staff with Fault Line AI, where I contribute clinical and academic expertise to the evaluation of safe and reliable AI systems for healthcare.

Research

Research Interests:

My research interests centre on social cognition: how humans learn about, understand and interact with each other. I am particularly interested in how differences in social cognition across populations and across the lifespan may relate to brain connectivity, social isolation and dementia risk.

Publications

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  1. Early detection of dementia with default-mode network effective connectivity (https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-024-00259-5)
  2. Social training reconfigures prediction errors to shape Self-Other boundaries (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16856-8)
  3. Agent-specific learning signals for self–other distinction during mentalising (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2004752)
  4. A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorder (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-024-03170-w)
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