Researchers

Department of Psychiatry Researchers

Name	Area of Interest
Glen Baker	Mechanisms of action and metabolism of antidepressant/antipanic and neuroprotective drugs
Roger Bland	Epidemiology of psychiatric disorders
Alan Carroll	Executive functions, Tourette’s syndrome and psychopharmacology in children
Pratap Chokka	Psychopharmacology, anxiety disorders and women’s mental health
Pierre Chue	Clinical neuropsychopharmacology
Nick Coupland	Neurobiology and cognitive and affective neuroscience of stress, anxiety and depressive disorders
Bruce Dick	Cognitive deficits in individuals with chronic pain,  pain in children,  imaging the effects of chronic pain using event-related potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Serdar Dursun	Molecular neuroscience of behavioural and neuroanatomical correlates of psychoses
Charl Els	Tobacco related disorders
Liam Ennis	Etiology and developmental antecedents of violent and sexual offending
Pierre Flor-Henry	Patterns of cerebral disorganization in mental illness
Esther Fujiwara	Interactions of coping style, memory and forgetting
Andrew Greenshaw	Psychotherapeutic drug action
Anthony Joyce	Psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapy
Saytabrata Kar	Role of beta-amyloid peptides and insulin-like growth factors in the regulation of central cholinergic functions and their relevance to Alzheimer's disease pathology
Jean-Michel Le Melledo	Relationship of affective disorders to cardiovascular risk and female hormones and neuroactive steroids
Peter Nguyen	Mechanisms of hippocampal synaptic plasticity
Hannah Pazderka	Addictions and impulse control disorders
Scot Purdon	Cerebral basis for schizophrenia and consequences of antipsychotics
Peter Silverstone	Underlying mechanism of action in bipolar disorder
Thomas Snyder	Neuropsychological impact of epilepsy treatment
Beverley Stich	Treatment of pediatric mental illness
Kathryn Todd	Investigations of multiple mechanisms leading to acute and degenerative neuronal cell death
Ian Winship	Functional plasticity and behavioural recovery after stroke

 

 

 

Adjunct Researchers

Name	Area of Interest
Kathy Hegadoren	Psychological and neuroendocrine factors involved in vulnerability of women to depression and in treatment response to antidepressant therapies
Andrew Holt	Enzymology, enzyme kinetics and enzyme inhibition mechanisms
John Lind​	Quantitative techniques in clinical diagnostics​
Nikolai Malykhin	DTI of the limbic system
Amanda Newton	Pediatric mental health emergencies
Peter Nguyen	Mechanisms of hippocampal synaptic plasticity
Hannah Pazderka	Addictions and impulse control disorders
Chris Power	Neurovirology and neuroimmunology of the CNS and PNS
Beverley Stich	Treatment of pediatric mental illness
Phil Tibbo	Schizophrenia and early psychosis
Liana Urichuk	Evidence-based prevention and treatment of pediatric mental illness
Jerome Yager	Perinatal brain research
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum	Behavioural and neurobiological markers of autism