The Relative Impact Of Threat Estimation, Heightened Responsibility And Intolerance Of Uncertainty On Self-report And Behavioural Indices During A Sorting Task For Children With Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) And Controls
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$58,951.00
Summary
I am a provisional psychologist completing my studies at the University of Sydney. My research focus is to better understand the thinking styles that affect children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and ultimately assist the development of empirically supported treatment strategies. I intend to achieve this by conducting an experiment that aims to identify and examine key thinking patterns in the production of anxiety and compulsive behaviours in children suffering from OCD.
Reconceptualising Neurophysiological Biomarkers Of Schizophrenia: An Investigation Of The MMN/P3a Complex In Early Psychotic Disorders
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$46,733.00
Summary
I am measuring a brain response to subtle changes in the environment called �mismatch negativity�. MMN indexes fundamental sensory processes that help the brain focus on certain information and ignore other information. MMN is consistently impaired in patients with Schizophrenia and is thought to be a biomarker of this illness. I am assessing MMN in the very early stages of psychosis to determine its specificity and whether it predicts illness trajectory.