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School of Psychiatry
Professor Gavin Andrews
| Position: | Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile | CRUFAD | Climate |
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| Research Interests, Skills: | Classification of mental disorders |
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Associate Professor Marie-Paule Austin
| Position: | Associate Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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Associate Professor Michael Breakspear
| Position: | Associate Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Black Dog Institute |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Cognitive neuroscience (perception, memory, motor activity), Functional neuroscience (EEG and fMRI), Neuropsychiatry (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, epilepsy) |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Electroencephalography, Functional neuroimaging, Computational neuroscience, Neuroscience methods |
| Keywords: | Dynamical systems theory, Functional connectivity, Nonparameteric statistics, Multiscale analysis |
Professor Henry Brodaty
| Position: | Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Primary Dementia Collaborative Research Centre |
| Research Interests, Skills: | General practitioner diagnosis of dementia, Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Carers/caregivers, Cerebrovascular disease, Drug trials, Late life depression, Nursing homes |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Clinical - drug trial research, Epidemiology |
| Keywords: | Mild cognitive impairment, Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Carers/caregivers, Cerebrovascular disease, Drug trials, Late life depression, Nursing homes |
Dr David Burke
| Position: | Conjoint Senior Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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Dr Melissa Green
| Position: | Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Honorary Research Fellow, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Cognitive psychology, Neuropsychology, Neuroimaging, Psychophysiology, Schizophrenia, Mood disorder |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Eye-movements, Neuroimaging |
| Keywords: | Neuropsychology, Social cognition, Neuropathology of affective disorder and psychosis, Emotions, Genetics |
Mr Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic
| Position: | Senior Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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Professor Florence Levy
| Position: | Head of Child and Family East, Prince of Wales Hospital and Sydney Children's Community Centre; Conjoint Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Adjunct Professor - Curtin University |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Genetics and twin studies, Aspergers disorder |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Twin studies |
| Keywords: | ADHD, Twin studies, Genetics |
Associate Professor Colleen Loo
| Position: | Senior Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | South Eastern Sydney & Illawarra Health Service, Black Dog Institute |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Transcranial magnetic stimulation - treatment and investigation of psychiatric disorders, Electroconvulsive therapy |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Transcranial magnetic stimulation, ECT |
| Keywords: | Transcranial magnetic stimulation, ECT |
Scientia Professor Phil Mitchell
| Position: | Convenor, Brain Sciences UNSW; Head, School of Psychiatry |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Genetics of bipolar disorder and depression, Bipolar depression, Psychological and pharmacological treatment of bipolar disorder and depression, Transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression |
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| Keywords: | Bipolar disorder, Depression |
Scientia Professor Gordon Parker
| Position: | Executive Director |
| Organisation: | Black Dog Institute |
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| Web: | Website |
| Affiliations: | School of Psychiatry |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Underlying concepts and models in psychiatry, Mood disorders with emphasis on clinical applications |
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| Keywords: | Mood disorders |
Scientia Professor Perminder Sachdev
| Position: | Professor of Neuropsychiatry |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile | Website |
| Affiliations: | Director of Neuropsychiatric Institute - Prince of Wales Hospital |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Dementia (Alzheimer's, Vascular dementia, other dementias), Mild cognitive impairment, Psychiatric disorders associated with epilepsy, stroke etc., Drug-induced movement disorders, Tourette's syndrome, Brain stimulation (TMS, Vagus nerve stimulation, IDCS) |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Neuroimaging laboratory, Neuropsychology laboratory, Brain stimulation |
| Keywords: | Dementia, MCI, Movement disorders, TMS, VNS, Tourette's |
Professor Cynthia (Cyndi) Shannon Weickert
| Position: | NISAD Chair of Schizophrenia Research |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | POWMRI Profile |
| Affiliations: | POWMRI, NISAD |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Schizophrenia, Neurodevelopment, Molecular genetics, Human neuroanatomy, Neuroendocrinology |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Gene expression, In situ hybridization, RNase protection assays, Cloning, Immunohistochemistry, Western blotting, Microarray, Microscopy, Real time PCR, Genomic sequence analysis, Immunoprecipitation, Cell culture, Mouse breeding, Human postmortem brain research, Splice variant detection, Promoter analysis, SNP detection, Genetic association studies |
| Keywords: | Mental illness, Antipsychotic drugs, Cortical development, Human brain development, Differential gene expression, Splice variants, Control of gene expression, Susceptibility gene discovery, Transcription factors, Sex steroids, Stress hormones |
Associate Professor Kuldip Sidhu
| Position: | Director, Stem Cell Lab |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
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| Research Interests, Skills: | Neural stem cells derived from embryonic and adult sources as potential cell therapy for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and spinal cord injury diseases |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Derivation of stem cells, Characterisation and their use in transitional and translational research |
| Keywords: | Neural stem cells, Reprogramming of somatic cells, Regenerative medicine |
Associate Professor Julian Trollor
| Position: | Chair, Intellectual Disability Mental Health |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile | Website |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Functional and structural imaging techniques in dementia, Mild cognitive impairment, Brain ageing, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Genetics of ageing |
| Keywords: | Dementia, MRI, Cerebral blood flow, ADHD, MCI, Twins |
Dr Michael Valenzuela
| Position: | Post Doctoral Research Fellow |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Multi-scalar approach to neuroplastic processes in degenerative (mainly Alzheimer's and vascular dementia) brain disorders and normal ageing |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Functional neuroimaging, Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy, Neuropsychological assessment, Regional MRI volumetry, Paradigm design, Degenerative neuropathology, Stem cell technology |
| Keywords: | Brain-behaviour, Dementia, Cognitive ageing, Brain reserve, Neurogenesis, Neural stem cells, Neuropathology |
Dr Ute Vollmer-Conna
| Position: | Senior Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | School of Medical Sciences, MRI - Prince of Wales Hospital |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Psychoneuroimmunology, CNS-mediated symptoms in the acute sickness response to infection, Behavioural genetics, Autonomic hyper-responsivity, Interoception |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Laboratory immunology, Computerised cognitive performance testing |
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Associate Professor Philip Ward
| Position: | Associate Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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Dr Tom Weickert
| Position: | Senior Lecturer |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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| Web: | Research Profile |
| Affiliations: | School of Psychology, POWMRI, NISAD |
| Research Interests, Skills: | Cognitive function as it pertains to frontal-striatal circuitry, schizophrenia and normal ageing, Cognitive and neuropsychological testing and fMRI to examine the interaction of genes, schizophrenia, antipsychotic treatment, and ageing on cognition |
| Technologies, Expertise: | Cognitive psychology, Neuropsychology, Schizophrenia, Antipsychotic medication treatment effects upon cognition, Interaction of antipsychotic medication and genotype upon cognition, fMRI |
| Keywords: | Schizophrenia, Cognition, Learning/memory, Working memory, Probalistic category learning, Basal ganglia, fMRI, Genetics, Antipsychotic effects on cognition, Prefrontal cortex function |
Dr Wei Wen
| Position: | Senior Lecturer (Conjoint) |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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Professor Kay Wilhelm
| Position: | Associate Professor |
| Organisation: | School of Psychiatry |
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