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Research
Grants
The Psychological Medicine Department holds a number of major research grants:
 The Health Research Council Grant is funding The Experience of Pressure in Treatment with Principal Investigators: Dr Sunny Collings, Dr Gavin Cape. - The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology research grant is funding research into the uses of Mullerian Inhibitory Substance in old age frailty. The Principal Investigator is, Assoc Prof Ian McLennan, and the Co-Investigator is Prof Paul Glue.
- There is also on-going collaboration with the Dunedin Multi-Disciplinary Study.
Topic Areas
Staff Research
Professor Paul Glue
- Psychopharmacology
- Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics
- Clinical Trial Design
- Translational Medicine
- Clinical Pharmacology
Dr Gavin Cape
- Drug Education and Training in NZ Medical Students
- I am also interested in the portrayal of addiction in the media
Dr Kumari Fernando
- Psychological treatments for depression and the prevention of depression
- Rumination (overthinking/analysing)
- Romantic relationships and emotional functioning
- Intellectual disabilities
Dr Christopher Gale
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Aggression towards mental health staff
- Evidence Base Mental Health
- Epidemiology and phenomenology of psychiatric disorders
- Psychosis.
Dr Keren Skegg
- Suicide
- Self-harm
- Problem gambling
Dr Nicola Swain
- Child wellness
- Pain and gaming
- Sex and religion
- Medical communication
- Caregiver violence
Dr Tess Patterson
- Investigative interviewing of children who may have been abused
- Facilitating children's reports of emotional, clinical and/or past events
- Schizophrenia, especially in relation to recovery and treatment outcomes
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