Lizzie Manning

I am a neuroscience researcher and was recently appointed as a lecturer in the teaching discipline of physiology at the University of Newcastle. My research interest is understanding the change in brain function associated with mental illness, with a particular focus on disturbances in flexible behaviour that occur across different mental illnesses including obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and addiction. My research uses cutting-edge neuroscience approaches to understand the cell types and pathways in the brain that underlie pathological changes in flexible behaviour in disease. Outside the lab, I'm passionate about increasing awareness and understanding about mental illness to reduce stigma, and improving equity in academia including creating new culturally safe opportunities for research training for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/lizzie-manning