Dr Lucy Troup is a Clinical Cognitive Neuroscientist whose research focus is centered round the effects of Cannabis use on brain function, behavior, and within its wider context in society. Her expertise is also centered around emotion processing and emotion processing disorders (Depression, Anxiety & PTSD), generally, and in relation to both recreational and medical cannabis use. The approach taken in the Troup lab places an emphasis on the importance of both endogenous and exogenous variables in understanding cannabis use and emotion processing. Research methods include primarily brain imaging, using Electroencephalogram (EEG) in particular Event Related Potentials (ERP). Recent research has an emphasis on the effects of cannabis on emotion processing from a number of perspectives, including clinical neuroscience, social neuroscience, and more traditional cognitive neuroscience using both quantitative, relational and qualitative methods. As well as traditional academic research she has extensive relationships with the use of cannabis in Colorado, the first US state to legalize cannabis for recreational use. She has advised policy makers, educational leaders, medical professionals and the cannabis industry. She has published both in academic journals and in many other media outlets including news articles, television and radio. Her work has been syndicated across international media on many occasions. The emphasis of her approach is stressing the importance of developing fact-based scientific support for arguments for and against cannabis exposure. The Troup Lab has several ongoing research collaborations in particular with the Medical Cannabis Research Group at Imperial College London, with the Univeristy of Edinburgh and with research partners in the USA & Canada.

The effects of Cannabis use on brain and behavior using Electrophysiology (EEG & Event Related Potentials)

Cannabis use and effects

Drug Policy/Legalization

Event Related Potentials

EEG