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Scientia Professor Kaarin J. Anstey
Research Areas: As a Professor in the School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney and a Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia, my research interests include dementia risk assessment and risk reduction, late-life development and ageing, mental health in older adults, and older drivers. Please click here for more information.
Scientia Professor Bernard Balleine
Research Areas: As Head of the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory in the School of Psychology at UNSW, my research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying normal and abnormal psychological functioning.
Dr Denovan Begg
Research Areas: The homeostatic regulation of ingestive behavior and body weight; blood-brain-barrier transport of adiposity signals; behavioural and cardiovascular effects of dietary fatty acids and their metabolites.
Scientia Professor Richard Bryant
Research Areas: Post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety: assessment, mechanisms, and treatment. Refugee and indigenous research. Neuroimaging and fMRI. Experimental and clinical investigation of emotional memory, trauma, and dissociation. Clinical and experimental hypnosis. Autobiographical memory in clinical disorders. Web-based interventions.
Dr Kelly Clemens
Behavioural and neural consequences of drug addiction, external factors that might promote or contribute to the development and maintenance of drug addiction, the involvement of epigenetic factors, including histone acetylation in the encoding of drug-associated memories, choice paradigms, habits and actions in drug addiction.
Professor Colin Clifford
Research Areas: The primary research focus of my laboratory is vision, how context affects our perception, and how our visual awareness might be related to the underlying neural processing.
Professor Jacquelyn Cranney
Research Areas: Research Areas: Motivation; self-management; learning and memory; testing effect; SOTL.
Professor Tom Denson
Thomas F. Denson is a Professor in the School of Psychology at UNSW. He is an experimental social-personality psychologist. His primary interests are anger-driven aggression, social neuroscience, and psychoneuroendocrinology. Tom received his PhD in 2007 from the University of Southern California, after which he received a lectureship here at the School of Psychology.
Dr Chris Donkin
Research Areas: Memory; Choice; Response Times; Decision-making; Models of Cognition; Categorization; Bayesian Statistics.
Dr Kate Faasse
Research Areas: My research programme in health psychology is concentrated on psychological and social factors that influence medication effectiveness and side effects. In particular, my research utilises the study of placebo and nocebo effects to investigate these factors. My work helps to elucidate the mind-body factors that contribute to treatment outcomes.
