In a recent SWC Virtual Seminar, Dr Katharina Schmack discussed her research exploring hallucination-like perceptions in humans and mice. In this Q&A, she elaborates on why it has traditionally been difficult to study disturbances in perception and her drive to find mechanistic treatment targets for psychotic disorders.

Since 2018, PhD students at SWC and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit organised a symposium each year, bringing neuroscientists together from across the world. The topic of this year’s symposium centred on how ‘dumb’ individual agents can come together to produce smart collective behaviours.