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

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

Association of Sustained Immunotherapy With Disability Outcomes in Patients With Active Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

izak N, Malpas CB, Sharmin S, Havrdova EK, Horakova D, Izquierdo G, Eichau S, Lugaresi A, Duquette P, Girard M, Prat A, Larochelle C, Trojano M, Grand'Maison F, Grammond P, Sola P, Ferraro D, Hupperts R, Bergamaschi R, Boz C, Van Pesch V, Spitaleri D, Terzi M, Kalincik T; MSBase Study Group

(2021), JAMA Neurol, 77(11), 1-11

DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.2453

An observational study of the association between sleep disturbance, fatigue and cognition in the post-acute period after mild traumatic brain injury in prospectively studied premorbidly healthy adults

Anderson JFI, Jordan AS

(2021), Neuropsychol Rehabil, 31(9), 1444-65

DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2020.1781665

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