The Developmental Brain-Behaviour Laboratory (DBBL) was established (as the Developmental Brain-Behaviour Unit) in November 2003 under the directorship of Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke. Its emergence accompanied a significant sharpening of focus of the developmental research agenda at the University of Southampton onto the basic and clinical neuroscience of developmental psychopathology and disorder.
Although housed within Psychology, DBBL highly prizes its multi-disciplinary constitution. Its membership includes developmental and educational psychologists, psychopathologists and neuroscientists, behaviour analysts, child psychiatrists, paediatric neurologists and community paediatricians all working together to provide a range of unique perspectives on common clinical and scientific problems.
The mission of the Laboratory is to:
Recent grants to DBBL unit members include those from funders including the Department of Health; the Economic & Social Research Council; the Medical Research Council; Eli Lilly & Co UK; the Food Standards Agency; HOPE; the Jacobs Foundation; Janssen Cilag; the National Institute of Mental Health; the Nuffield Foundation; the Wellcome Trust; the Adventure in Research Scheme and industrial sponsors such as Shire Pharmaceuticals.
In addition, DBBL has active and funded links with many international centres of excellence including the Social Genetic Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London; the Child Study Centre, New York University; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge; the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit; School of Psychology, Cardiff University; the Child Development Centre, University of California; the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University; the Institute of Child Health, University College London; the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales; the College of Medicine, Cardiff; Bangor University; the University of Queensland; the University of Sheffield; the University of Gent; the Federal University of Rio Grando do Sul Porto Alegre; Aarhus University; the University of Leuven; VU University, Amsterdam.
| Staff Member | Primary Position |
|---|---|
| Julie Hadwin | Senior Lecturer, Developmental Psychology |
| Cathy Hill | Paediatric Neuroscience, Southampton General Hospital |
| Colin Kennedy | Paediatric Neurology, Southampton General Hospital |
| Cathy Laver-Bradbury | Consultant Nurse |
| Robert Remington | Professor |
| Jim Stevenson | Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychopathology |
| Margaret Thompson | Honorary Professor |