For Students
Thinking of doing a PhD?
MAPrc has a great range of projects available for higher degree students. You will be supervised by experts in your chosen field and have the opportunity to work with the latest cutting edge neurotechonologies.
MAPrc is situated in the heart of a major Melbourne teaching hospital, The Alfred. This creates a powerful connection between researchers and people who will benefit from our work.
Scholarship Available:
- Studying neurobiological predictors of antidepressant response to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
We are seeking a high performing new PhD student to work in the Psychiatric Neurotechnology team at MAPrc. The successful student will have the opportunity to work in a world class clinical research setting under the supervision of Prof Paul Fitzgerald, who is a leading expert in the use of psychiatric neurotechology.
For more information please contact Dr Kate Hoy by email kate.hoy@monash.edu
Check out the selection of projects available in 2012....
- Investigating brain function in autism spectrum disorders
- Investigating the neuroscience of social interaction
- Non invasive brain stimulation techniques for the enhancement of cognition in schizophrenia
- Investigating the mechanism of action of transcranial magnetic stimulation and how it can be most effectively applied in the treatment of psychiatric disorder
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An examination of the relationship between schizotypy in healthy volunteers and candidate genes for schizophrenia. People with high schizotypy can display unusual ideas, creative thinking and experience vivid perceptions. Do any of these bahvioural traits relate to the candidate genes for schizophrenia, if so which genes and which behaviours?
- An examination of the relationship between language performance in healthy volunteers and candidate genes for schizophrenia. This task will use language measures typically reported to be impaired in schizophrenia, and examine the relationship with candiadte genes.
- A study looking at whether there is any relationship between age of acquisition of words and language abnormalities in schizophrenia. Exploring the faulty beliefs of people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is a somatoform disorder in which patients are preoccupied with an imagined deficit or a slight physical anomaly in appearance. One important issue with regards to diagnostic classification is that BDD is classified as two disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSMIV); approximately 50% are classified as having a psychotic delusional variant and 50% a non-psychotic over-valued ideas variant. Surprisingly, to date, there have been few systematic studies of BDD. Recent data is suggesting that BDD patients have extensive eye movement abnormalities. This study will further eye movement research by examining the neurobiological correlates of these abnormalities using fMRI and MEG. Prof Rossell has the only active BDD research group in Australia
For more information on any of these projects, please contact our reception on 03 9076 6564
