Welcome to the Psychiatry in Action lab
The lab is led by Dr Noham Wolpe, a clinical psychiatrist and researcher.
Our broad interest is in how mental health factors, such as mood and motivation, affect our everyday actions and movements.
Latest Updates
9:57:32 AMWe are excited to share our latest preprint on Age-related differences in emotion recognition! Check it out in our publications page
3 days agoWe are excited to share our latest preprint on Suboptimality in foraging! Check it out in our publications page
7 days agoWe are excited to share our latest preprint on Depression and Anxiety Symptom Networks! Check it out in our publications page
9 days agoOur research on motivation and effort was recently featured in Kol Hamada. We're excited to see our work reaching a broader audience and contributing to the public understanding of cognitive effort and motivation. Read the article
59 days ago"We are happy to share that our paper with DR Daniel Harlev on acoustic features of late-life depression and apathy was accepted for publication in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring!" Read more
66 days agoWe are excited to share our latest preprint on Age-related differences in emotion recognition! Check it out in our publications page
3 days agoWe are excited to share our latest preprint on Suboptimality in foraging! Check it out in our publications page
7 days agoWe are excited to share our latest preprint on Depression and Anxiety Symptom Networks! Check it out in our publications page
9 days agoOur research on motivation and effort was recently featured in Kol Hamada. We're excited to see our work reaching a broader audience and contributing to the public understanding of cognitive effort and motivation. Read the article
59 days ago"We are happy to share that our paper with DR Daniel Harlev on acoustic features of late-life depression and apathy was accepted for publication in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring!" Read more
66 days agoWe are looking for YOU
We are excited to announce that we are recruiting MSc and PhD students to join our program starting October 2025. We encourage you to reach out to learn more about our research opportunities and application process. For detailed information about available positions and supervision areas, please contact us Here. Early inquiries are welcome.
Lab outing
Our lab team recently enjoyed a lab outdoor get-together and team building. The crew took a break from our research to strengthen connections outside the lab environment, sharing ideas and experiences in a more relaxed setting.
Recent work
What is mental effort?
Mental effort is a widely used term but is poorly understood. Here's a talk I gave at CRCNS that summarises what we think about mental effort. Paper can be found in What Is Mental Effort: A Clinical Perspective or in our publication page.
Apathy and sedation in schizophrenia
We show that reduced motivation, which is part of what is called 'negative symptoms' in schizophrenia, is partly explained by medication-induced sedation. This has significant implications for the as yet poorly treated negative symptoms in schizophrenia.
Link to full open-access manuscript
