Trung Ngo
Trung Ngo PhD (Qld)
Trung Ngo’s interest in brain-behaviour relationships grew from enthralling lectures on classic lesion and brain stimulation studies given by Rod Ashton at the University of Queensland. Trung went on to complete a PhD in Neuroscience under Jack Pettigrew, who was working with Steven Miller on a novel neural mechanism of binocular rivalry (and bipolar disorder), and extended their work by demonstrating evidence for an interhemispheric switch model of perceptual rivalry.
Trung was awarded an NHMRC postdoctoral clinical research fellowship and is currently a Research Fellow at the School of Psychology & Psychiatry (Monash University), Caulfield Pain Management & Research Centre (CPMRC, Caulfield Hospital) and MAPrc. At MAPrc, he is continuing investigations into mechanisms of perceptual rivalry using TMS and EEG, including examination of a novel meta-rivalry model (see below). Other work Trung is conducting at MAPrc with Paul Fitzgerald and Steve Miller includes characterising binocular rivalry in bipolar disorder, and examining caloric vestibular stimulation (CVS) – a simple brain stimulation technique – as a potential therapeutic intervention in mania and depression. At CPMRC, Trung and Steven are also assessing CVS as a potential therapeutic intervention in neuropathic (persistent) pain conditions.
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