Adaptive behaviour requires that we monitor the changing environment, and, when needed, re-interpret our priorities or re-evaluate our plans for action. The processes that support this complex ability mature slowly, are deployed differently at different stages of life, and are impaired in disorders of thought and behaviour.

To study adaptive behaviour in our lab, we combine neuroimaging and behavioural methods with computational modelling. We focus on the remodelling of brain circuitry as we mature, especially during adolescence.

In recent work we integrate structural and functional connectivity with dynamical analysis methods to understand adaptive behaviour at multiple time-scales, including what aspects are challenged in disorder (e.g. in ADHD, autism, or depression).

This approach enables us to study experience-bound moment-to-moment changes in brain and behaviour, as well as the interaction of these changes with slower maturational processes over development.