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Research InterestsAssociate Professor Philip Ward | | (Position Details) | | Phone 02 9616 4308 | | Email | | Qualifications BMedSc, PhD UNSW |
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| School of Psychiatry | |
| | Broad Research Areas | |
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Psychiatry
Neuropsychology
Neuroscience
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| | | | Specific Research Keywords | |
| fMRI
Cognition
MRI
Electrophysiology
Schizophrenia
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| | | | Research Interests | |
| Use of functional and structural brain imaging to investigate schizophrenia and first episode psychosis, including risk factors such as cannabis use. Research using ERPs and neuropsychological testing to study auditory sensory memory function in healthy volunteers and young people at increased risk for the development of psychosis. Collaborative research with groups at University of Newcastle, University of Sydney, Macquarie University and UCLA. New research interests include the links between schizophrenia and specific reading disability, efficacy of computerised cognitive remediation training in schizophrenia, and predictors of weight gain and metabolic syndrome in first epsisode psychosis.
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| | | | Teaching Interests | |
| Phase 1 teaching in Beginnings, Growth and Development. Lectures/tutorials on schizophrenia to Phase 3. Postgraduate teaching (currently 1 PhD and 1 honours students). Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the School of Psychiatry. | |
| | | | Society Memberships & Professional Activities | |
| Australian Neuroscience Society (1983 -).
Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research (1981 -).
Australasian Society for Biological Psychiatry
(Foundation Member 1987 -)
(Executive Member, 1993 -)
(Secretary/Treasurer 1997)
(Chairperson, 1998 - 2005)
Advisory Board, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University
Scientific Advisory Committee, Australian Brain Donor Program
Society for Neuroscience (1995- )
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (2000- )
Organisation for Human Brain Mapping (2001- ) | |
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| NHMRC
ARC | |
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| | | | Key works/Publications | |
| Ward PB (2000). Structural brain imaging and the prevention of schizophrenia: can we identify neuroanatomical markers for young people at risk for the development of schizophrenia?. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 34: S127-S130.
Langdon R, Coltheart M, Ward PB, Catts S (2002) Disturbed communication in schizophrenia: the role of poor pragmatics and poor mind-reading. Psychological Medicine, 32, 1273-1284.
Schall U, Johnston P, Todd J, Ward PB, Michie P (2003). Functional neuroanatomy of auditory sensory memory: An event-related fMRI study. NeuroImage, 20, 729-736.
Schall U, Johnston P, Lagopoulos J, Jüptner M, Jentzen W, Theinel R, Dittman-Balçar A, Bender S, Ward PB. (2003) Functional brain maps of Tower of London performance: A PET and fMRI study. NeuroImage, 20, 1154-1161.
N. J. Clunas and P. B. Ward. (2005) Altered auditory recovery cycle in schizophrenia: An ERP study. Psychiatry Research, 136, 17-25.
P. Rasser, P. Johnston, J. Lagopoulos, P. B. Ward, U. Schall, S. Bender, R. Thienel, A. W. Toga and P. M. Thompson. (2005) Functional MRI BOLD response to Tower of London performance of first-episode schizophrenia patients using cortical pattern matching. NeuroImage, 26, 941-951.
I. B. Hickie, S. Naismith, P. B. Ward, K. Turner, E. Scott, P. Mitchell, K. Wilhelm, and G. Parker. (2005) Hippocampal volumes and memory functioning are reduced in patients with early-onset and late-onset depression. British Journal of Psychiatry, 186, 197-202
R. Langdon, T. Corner, J. McLaren, M. Coltheart, and P. B. Ward. (2006) Abnormalities of social attention orienting in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 44, 417-429
S. Naismith, I. Hickie, P.B. Ward, E. Scott, and C. Little (2006) Impaired implicit sequence learning in depression: a probe for frontostriatal dysfunction? Psychological Medicine, 36, 313-323
I. B. Hickie, S. L. Naismith, P. B. Ward, C. L. Little, M. Pearson, E. Scott, P. Mitchell, K. Wilhelm, and G. Parker. (2007) Psychomotor slowing in older persons with major depression: relationships with blood flow in the caudate nucleus and white matter lesions. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 155, 211-210.
I. B. Hickie, S. L. Naismith, P. B. Ward, E. M. Scott, P. B. Mitchell, P. R. Schofield, A. Scimone, K. Wilhelm, and G. Parker. (2007) Serotonin transporter gene status predicts caudate nucleus but not amygdala or hippocampal volumes in older persons with major depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 98, 137-142.
R. Langdon, J. McLaren, V. Polito, M. Coltheart, and P. B. Ward (2007) Willed action in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 150, 193-197.
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