Psychology research

The Psychology Department (Clinical and Neuropsychology) provides best practice evidence-based services to improve the quality of life of patients and their carers.

In the acute hospital setting, clinical psychologists provide psychological assessment and treatment to patients with problems such as depression, anxiety and adjustment issues and are attached to the Cystic Fibrosis, Oncology, HIV, Heart Transplant and Burns Services as well as the Hospital Admission Risk Program.

In Alfred Psychiatry, clinical psychologists take a leading role in the treatment of clients with personality disorder. Neuropsychology assessment and treatment services are provided to patients of all psychiatry programs and all medical and surgical units of the hospital, in particular Neurology, Neurosurgery, Trauma and HIV services.

The department's recent research activities focused on factors contributing to poor outcome for individuals with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), the assessment of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder in culturally and linguistically diverse individuals, research into the long-term wellbeing of burns patients and the evaluation of a therapeutic group program for young people with emerging personality disorder.

Publications

The histopathological staging of tau, but not amyloid, corresponds to antemortem cognitive status, dementia stage, functional abilities and neuropsychiatric symptoms

Malpas CB, Sharmin S, Kalincik T

(2021), Int J Neurosci, 131(8), 800-9

DOI: 10.1080/00207454.2020.1758087

During MRI Predicted by out-of-Scanner Sustained Attention Performance in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Thomson P, Johnson KA, Malpas CB, Efron D, Sciberras E, Silk TJ

(2021), J Atten Disord, 25(10), 1429-40

DOI: 10.1177/1087054720911988

Investigating White Matter Tract Microstructural Changes at Six-Twelve Weeks following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Combined Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging Study

Oehr LE, Yang JY, Chen J, Maller JJ, Seal ML, Anderson JFI

(2021), J NEUROTRAUM, 38(16), 2255-63

DOI: 10.1089/neu.2020.7310

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