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Principal Areas of Research by School and Academic Unit

School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine

Psychological Medicine

Contact: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni - Director, Research for the School

URL: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/research/

Key words: Addiction psychiatry; Alzheimer's disease; anxiety disorders; autism; behavioural neurobiology; bipolar disorder; brain imaging; brain plasticity; community, child and adolescent psychiatry; cortical inhibition; depression; developmental delay; developmental forensic; developmental psychology and psychiatry; electrophysiology; epidemiology; general practice psychiatry; health economics; health outcomes; health psychology; intellectual disability; medical education; old age psychiatry; pervasive developmental disorders; psychiatric aspects of general medicine; psychoanalytic studies; psychogeriatrics; psychoneuroendocrinology;psychopharmacology; psychotic illnesses; rural mental health; schizophrenia; service evaluation research; transcranial magnetic stimulation; treatment resistance; women's mental health.

Lay terms: Alzheimer's disease; depression; mental health; psychiatry; psychology; schizophrenia.

Psychology

Contact: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni - Director, Research for the School

URL: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/research/

Key words: Alzheimer's disease; amyloid beta; analysis of human skill; animal and human interaction; animal welfare; animal-assisted therapy; astrocytes; attachment theory; attention; attentional and movement disorders; attitude assessment; auditory attentional processes; auditory cortex organization; behavioural medicine; behavioural neuroscience; biochemistry of memory; brain iron; cancer treatment; cerebral cortex; change management; chronobiology; circadian rhythms; clinical neuropsychology; clinical psychology; cognitive and motor functions; cognitive neuroscience; comparative neuroscience; conceptual change theory; cortical plasticity; counselling psychology; cross-cultural psychology; developmental psychopathology; educational psychology; educational technologies; electrophysiology; emotional development; engineering psychology; environmental psychology; epidemiology; experimental neuropsychology; families and parenting; fatigue; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); glia-neuronal interactions; health care management; health psychology and health behaviours; Huntington's disease; information processing; innovation and creativity; leadership development; leadership succession; leadership; learning; medical education; medical simulation; memory; mental health; movement disorders; music psychology; nature and psychological well-being; neuroanatomy; neurobiology; neurodegenerative disorders; neurodevelopmental disorders; neuroethology; neurophysiology; neuropsychology; nitric oxide; normal aging; organisational psychology; organizational change; oxidative stress; Parkinson's disease; perceptual learning; personality; play and aggression in children; primate vocal communication; professional identity; performance in the workplace; psychobiology of emotion; psycholinguistics; psychological assessment; psychology of aging; psychology of groups and teams; psychometrics; psycho-oncology; quality of life; road user behaviour; sensory processes and perception; sleep disorders; sleep; sound localisation; stress management; traumatic brain injury; values, culture and climate; vocational psychology; voice recognition.

Lay terms: ADHD; adult health; aggression; aging; Alzheimer's disease; animals and humans; attention; behaviour; brain mapping; brain research; child health; children's understanding of health and illness; computers in education; counselling; emotional development; families and parenting; health promotion; human evolution; Huntington's disease; learning; education; memory; movement disorders; obesity; Parkinson's disease; personality; play; relationships; therapy; voice communication