Dr Tamsyn Van Rheenen
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The following projects are currently available:

PhD projects
  • Examining longitudinal predictors of cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder

Honours/Masters projects
  • Examining brain structure in first episode mania
  • Examining modifiable risk factors for bipolar disorder: focus on cigarette smoking and the brain
  • Examination of brain structure in schizophrenia subgroups stratified by hallucination types 
  • Exploring predictors of the treatment resistant schizophrenia phenotype
  • Understanding cognitive intra-individual variability on the schizophrenia-bipolar spectrum
  • Examining interactions between inflammation, stress and childhood adversity on brain structure and behaviour
  • Understanding brain structural influences on component processes involved in verbal declarative memory in bipolar disorder.
If you are interested in completing these or another related project, please email me with your CV, academic transcript/results certificate and a sample of your writing.

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Interested in participating in our studies?

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We use a combination of neuropsychological and neuroimaging methodologies to understand brain-behaviour relationships in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Currently, in addition to using magnetic resonance imaging​ (structural, functional, resting state, diffusion), we are collecting eyetracking and magnetoencephalography (MEG) data from one of only two centre's in Australia with a MEG scanner. 

We are currently looking for participants for our studies.  
If you are aged between 18 and 60 and fall into any of the groups below then we need your help. 
  • Healthy adults with no neurological disorders or history of mental illness
  • Adults diagnosed with bipolar I disorder
  • Adults that have a first-degree biological relative diagnosed with bipolar disorder but do not have bipolar disorder themselves 
Get in touch about participating. You will be reimbursed for your time. More information here.

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Dr Tamsyn Van Rheenen
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NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Research Fellow
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre
Level 3, 161 Barry St
Carlton, Vic, Australia, 3053
E: tamsyn.van@unimelb.edu.au

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