Jane Garrison

Jane Garrison is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the School of Biological Sciences and the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on understanding reality discrimination failures underlying hallucinations, which are a cardinal symptom of schizophrenia and characteristic of other psychiatric, neurological, and neurodegenerative conditions such as bipolar disorder, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. Her work explores cognitive neuroscience, perceptual processing, psychosis, hallucinations, reality monitoring, and mental health, employing techniques such as structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI-neurofeedback, behavioural psychological testing, and transcranial direct current stimulation.

Jane Garrison is a University lecturer in Psychology at the University of Cambridge, specializing in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and schizophrenia. Her research explores the neural mechanisms underlying hallucinations, reality monitoring, and cognitive processes in schizophrenia. She investigates the role of brain structures such as the paracingulate sulcus in hallucinations and reality monitoring impairments. Her work also examines prediction error, metacognition, and neurofeedback techniques for treating auditory-verbal hallucinations. Through meta-analytic and neuroimaging studies, she contributes to understanding the biological and cognitive bases of psychosis and hallucinatory experiences in both clinical and nonclinical populations.