Dr Caroline Edmonds – Research Psychologist
Description: Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of East London. Prior to coming to UEL, Caroline spent seven years as a Research Fellow at the MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre at the Institute of Child Health
I am Professor of Experimental Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of East London and Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Medicine – Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton
This research looks at the effect of hydration and drinking water on cognition. I am interested in the positive effects of water consumption on cognitive performance, both in children and in adults. Recent work in adults includes measuring hydration using bioelectrical impedance and relating this to cognitive performance measured using CANTAB. Recent work in children includes papers on the positive effects of water consumption on cognition. Publications >
I am also interested in the effect of nutrition on cognition, the brain and mood, in collaboration with colleagues from the MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre at the Institute of Child Health, UCL. Under the direction of the centre director, Professor Alan Lucas, deputy director, Professor Atul Singhal and Senior Research Fellow, Dr Elizabeth Isaacs, this research examines the effect of early nutrition on long term cognitive outcome and brain structure. We have studied a number of different cohorts, ex
Dr Caroline Edmonds – Research Psychologist