Personal profile
Research overview
Research interests focus on cognitive processing and the emotional disorders. Also how memory processes are influenced by neurological impairments. Current research projects are examining how depression influences social problemsolving, how depression and trauma influence the retrieval of autobiographical in adults, adolescents, and children and how autobiographcial memory retrieval relates to problem-solving abilities in closed head injury patients.
Future research
Autobiographical memory deificts experienced as a result of having ECT.
Academic/Professional Qualification
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Sad reflections of positive past selves: reduced emotional benefit of central life events during depression
Eriksen Isham, A. & Dritschel, B., 17 Feb 2026, In: Current Psychology. 45, 5, 440.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The association between chronic alcohol, cannabis, and opioids use and autobiographical memory impairments: a systematic review
Gibson, M., Hemmati, Z., Conti, A., Dritschel, B. & Baldacchino, A., 19 Feb 2026, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 17, p. 1-24 24 p., 1715085.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Inhibition of emotional faces in clinical and subclinical depression
Ridout, N., Dritschel, B., Wardall, H., Day, R. & O’Carroll, R., 1 Feb 2025, In: Journal of Psychiatric research. 182, p. 221-234Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Autobiographical memory specificity and restrained eating: examining the influence of priming with images of healthy and unhealthy foods
Wallis, D. J., Moss, J., Varnam, B., Dritschel, B. & Ridout, N., 21 Jun 2023, In: Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity. 28, 8 p., 53.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effects of mindfulness meditation duration and type on well‑being: an online dose‑ranging randomized controlled trial
Fincham, G. W., Mavor, K. & Dritschel, B., 1 May 2023, In: Mindfulness. 14, p. 1171-1182 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Datasets
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Autobiographical memory retrieval in remitted and current depression and its relationships with self-compassion (thesis data)
Lathan, A. (Creator) & Dritschel, B. (Supervisor), University of St Andrews, 4 Apr 2029
DOI: 10.17630/96ccd5a3-8b64-439b-8dd3-23afd170663a, https://doi.org/10.17630/sta/842
Dataset: Thesis dataset
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A More Nuanced Understanding of Autobiographcial Memory in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Its Implications for Social Functioning - Chapter 3 and 4 (thesis data)
Bohlinger, V. K. (Creator) & Dritschel, B. (Supervisor), University of St Andrews, 27 Oct 2029
DOI: 10.17630/11194d27-f96c-4dad-98c5-7dac6d2ef0e0
Dataset: Thesis dataset
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Data underpinning Aleksandra Eriksen Isham's thesis
Isham, A. E. (Creator) & Dritschel, B. (Supervisor), University of St Andrews, 9 Feb 2027
DOI: 10.17630/3ff28012-c3ef-49ed-85b4-4874ad813eaa
Dataset: Thesis dataset
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The shield of self-compassion: a buffer against disordered eating risk from physical appearance perfectionism (dataset)
Bergunde , L. (Creator) & Dritschel, B. (Creator), University of St Andrews, 2019
DOI: 10.17630/39426414-eb9b-4b7f-b078-2f88f96cdd76
Dataset
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In the here and now: Future thinking and social problem-solving in depression
Noreen, S. (Creator) & Dritschel, B. (Contributor), Open Science Framework, 2021
Dataset
Projects
- 4 Finished
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Nuffield Undergraduate Research 2009: Nuffield Undergraduate Research 2009
Dritschel, B. (PI)
1/06/09 → 31/07/09
Project: Standard
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Influence of Depression SG-49450: The influence of depression on the neural processing of self-referential and emotional information
Dritschel, B. (PI)
1/07/08 → 31/08/08
Project: Standard
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Memory in Children RES-062-23-0197collab: Mechanisms underlying deficits in autobiographical Memory
Dritschel, B. (PI)
Economic and Social Research Council
1/10/06 → 15/06/08
Project: Standard
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The Royal Society 2005/R1 Australia: Travel - Mechanisms underlying event memory of children
Dritschel, B. (PI)
1/07/05 → 13/07/05
Project: Standard
Activities
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Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Autobiographical Memory and the Self, Aarhus University
Dritschel, B. (Keynote/Plenary speaker)
20 Jun 2018 → 21 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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PLoS ONE (Journal)
Dritschel, B. (Member of editorial board)
May 2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of research journal
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2005 The effects of ECT on autobiographical memory retrieval: A new perspective Paper presented at the International Autobiographical Memory Meeting Oxford 2005
Dritschel, B. (Invited speaker)
2006 → …Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Culture and depression: Do they interact to influence autobiogrpahical memory specificity? Paper presented at the International Autobiographical memory Meeting, St Andrews 2006.
Dritschel, B. (Invited speaker)
2006 → …Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Fourth International Meeting on Autobiographical Memory - Held in August 2006. St Andrews
Dritschel, B. (Organiser)
2006Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organising a conference
Impacts
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CIRCA – a novel technology to support people with dementia
Astell, A. (Participant) & Dritschel, B. (Participant)
Impact: Health and Welfare Impact