Taylor Lyons

Taylor Lyons is completing her PhD at Imperial College London by investigating the acute and long-term effects of psilocybin on the brain (in healthy naïve subjects).

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Previously, Taylor completed a BSc in Psychology at The Queen’s University of Belfast and an MSc in Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. Taylor began her doctorate at Imperial College London in 2015 after being awarded the Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Grant.

As a member of the Centre for Psychedelic Research, she is working within the Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology and the Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Dynamics to complete two complementary research projects for her PhD.

Taylor is investigating the acute and long-term effects of psilocybin on the brain and psychology of healthy psychedelic-naïve volunteers. To do this, she uses multimodal neuroimaging techniques, psychological questionnaires, and various behavioral tasks.