Laurel S. Morris
PhD
Dr. Morris is a cognitive neuroscientist who specializes in the development of novel cognitive and digital measures of motivation, self-agency, and reward and punishment processing. She 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.
Dr. Morris is open to accepting new students.
Key publications
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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
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Intrinsic and extrinsic control impact motivation and outcome sensitivity: the role of anhedonia, stress, and anxiety
Journal article
Mehta MM. et al, (2024), Psychological Medicine, 54, 4575 - 4584
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Ketamine normalizes subgenual cingulate cortex hyper-activity in depression.
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Morris LS. et al, (2020), Neuropsychopharmacology, 45, 975 - 981
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Fronto-striatal organization: Defining functional and microstructural substrates of behavioural flexibility
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Morris LS. et al, (2016), Cortex, 74, 118 - 133