Research areas

• – Mental health
• – Computational psychiatry
• – Eating disorders
• – Anxiety disorders
• – Reinforcement learning

Methodological and/or psychotherapeutic expertise

• – Computational psychiatry
• – Computational psychopathology
• – Computational models of learning and decision-making

Short biography

I completed my DPhil in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford on eating disorders and compulsivity in 2018, supervised by Professor Phil Cowen and Dr Rebecca Park. Subsequently, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UCL in the Neuroscience and Mental Health Group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (mentored by Professor Oliver Robinson), with a focus on anxiety disorders. I have worked on computational modelling methods in psychiatry since 2017, and also have experience in cognitive neuroscience, including MRI and online data collection. I joined the Department of York as a Lecturer in Mental Health in 2022.

Relevant publications

• Pike, A. C., & Robinson, O. J. (2022). Reinforcement learning in patients with mood and anxiety disorders vs control individuals: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry.
• Pike, A. C., Alves Anet, Á., Peleg, N., & Robinson, O. J. (2023). Catastrophizing and risk-taking. Computational Psychiatry, 7(1), 1-13.
• Harada‐Laszlo, M., Talwar, A., Robinson, O. J., & Pike, A. C. (2024). A series of unfortunate events: Do those who catastrophize learn more after negative outcomes? Mental Health Science, 2(1), 73-84.
• Radzikowska, M., Pike, A. C., & Hall-McMaster, S. (2023). Computational perspectives on behaviour in anorexia nervosa: A systematic review.
• Pike, A. C., Sharpley, A. L., Park, R. J., Cowen, P. J., Browning, M., & Pulcu, E. (2023). Adaptive learning from outcome contingencies in eating-disorder risk groups. Translational Psychiatry, 13(1), 340.
• Ossola, P., & Pike, A. C. (2023). Editorial: What is computational psychopathology, and why do we need it? Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105170
• Pike, A. C., Tan, K., Ansari, H. J., Wing, M., & Robinson, O. J. (2022). Test-retest reliability of affective bias tasks [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n2fkh
• Slanina-Davies, A., Robinson, O. J., & Pike, A. C. (2023). Eating disorder symptoms and control-seeking behavior. Brain and Behavior, 13(8), e3105. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.3105

Relevant funded research projects

• - PI: Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award: 'Understanding the relationship between eating disorders, self-efficacy and control-seeking (£125,000, SBF009\1042)
• - coI: Wellcome Trust Data Science Ideathon Award: 'Hypatia: Health Modelling, Made Simple’ (£120,000)