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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Grant winners’ celebration plus laureate talk by Prof Louise Sharpe (School of Psychology – University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us this Friday 5 March for a special two-part colloquium:\nA celebration of the School’s ARC\, NHMRC and MRFF grant winners. Join us in congratulating our colleagues who were awarded significant research funding in 2020.\nThe first in our series of laureate talks given by grant winners – Prof Louise Sharpe\, who\, with co-investigators A/Prof Ben Colagiuri\, Dr Jemma Todd and A/Prof Hamish MacDougall\, was awarded an ARC Discovery Project. \nGrant title: To focus on pain or not to focus: WHEN is the question\nGrant summary: The experience of pain is a ubiquitous experience\, and persistent pain is common and causes enormous personal and societal burden. Anyone who has been in severe pain will understand that pain captures attention\, but the role that attention plays in increasing pain perception is poorly understood. This project will test a new conceptual model that calls for a change in the paradigm underlying research into attention and pain. We will use novel experimental tasks in virtual reality environments to address these important gaps in our knowledge. The project will significantly advance our fundamental understanding of the role of attention in pain perception and pave the way for translational research to reduce the substantial burden pain causes.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-grant-winners-celebration-plus-laureate-talk-by-prof-louise-sharpe-school-of-psychology-university-of-sydney/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Laureate talks by Dr Caitlin Cowan & Dr Stephanie Wong (School of Psychology – University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special two-part colloquium\, with Laureate talks by two NHMRC Investigator Grant winners in our School:\nDr Caitlin Cowan – Title: “The developing microbiome as a predictor and modulator of mental health risk and resilience: A translational gut-brain axis approach to improving childhood mental health”. Project Summary: A child’s development sets the pathway for their adult functioning. Mental health is no exception\, with the majority of psychological disorders having their roots in childhood or adolescence. Currently\, our gold-standard treatments for childhood psychopathologies are effective for only half of individuals\, meaning there is a dire need for new approaches to this problem. My project will test the hypothesis propose that gastrointestinal microorganisms (collectively known as the microbiome) contribute to psychological risk or wellbeing by shaping the gut-brain axis during critical periods of development.\nDr Stephanie Wong – Title: “Challenging behaviours in dementia: mechanisms\, assessment and interventions”. Project Summary: When most people hear about dementia\, memory loss is often the first thing that comes to mind. However\, memory impairment is only one symptom of dementia. Other symptoms\, such as apathy\, eating disturbances\, socially inappropriate behaviour and poor financial judgment\, are also common. These behavioural symptoms account for high levels of carer burden\, greater functional decline and reduced quality of life. The neurobiological mechanisms of these symptoms are not well understood\, and existing treatments show limited efficacy. My research program will examine how maladaptive reward processing mechanisms give rise to diverse behavioural symptoms in dementia\, while also developing and implementing new assessment and intervention approaches in patients and carers. This research will enhance knowledge and health outcomes in the therapeutic management of behavioural symptoms in dementia and will be applicable to challenging behaviours arising from other forms of brain injury and neurodegeneration. In the absence of disease-modifying treatments or cures\, such advances are urgently needed to improve the prognosis and quality of life of people living with dementia. \n 
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-laureate-talks-by-dr-caitlin-cowan-dr-stephanie-wong-school-of-psychology-university-of-sydney/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210319T150000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Melissa Sharpe (Department of Psychology\, UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Melissa SharpeDepartment of Psychology\, UCLA\nTitle: The cognitive (lateral) hypothalamus \nAbstract: The lateral hypothalamus is generally thought of as a switch that drives feeding. The idea is that if you turn on your lateral hypothalamus\, you will instantaneously start eating whatever is in front of you. However\, we have recently shown that this nucleus is critical for learning about the information that predicts food. This might seem like a small advance. But we were excited about this because it could mean that the lateral hypothalamus is involved in lots of other forms of learning that we haven’t thought about yet. Indeed\, in this talk I will discuss data that show the lateral hypothalamus can even be recruited to learn about fearful events. Further\, while the lateral hypothalamus is critical for learning about rewarding and fearful outcomes\, this nucleus actively opposes learning about information that is not directly relevant to motivationally-significant outcomes (e.g. learning to associate neutral cues together). This research suggests that the lateral hypothalamus biases learning towards motivationally-significant information\, and away from information that is not predictive of something important. This has led to two research directions in my lab: one that investigates how the lateral hypothalamus is integrated into the traditional fear circuit\, and another that examines how changes to hypothalamic circuits present in psychological disorders might alter the balance of learning about relevant information.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-melissa-sharpe-department-of-psychology-ucla/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210326T150000
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Laureate talks by A/Prof Carolyn MacCann & Prof Mark Dadds (School of Psychology – University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special two-part colloquium\, with Laureate talks by two grant winners in our School:\nA/Prof Carolyn MacCann (ARC Discovery Project\, co-CIs Dr Rebecca Pinkus\, A/Prof Helena Nguyen\, A/Prof Anya Johnson) Title: “When\, why\, and how well do we regulate other people’s emotions?”. Project Summary: This project aims to understand when and why people attempt to regulate others’ emotions\, and to evaluate which regulation processes are most effective. We will study regulation attempts as they occur over minutes\, days\, and months in interactions between romantic couples and between nurse co-workers. This project extends the study of emotion regulation to others’ emotions as well as one’s own. The major project output will be an evidence-based theory of extrinsic regulation. Project benefits include applications of this new knowledge to programs and policies that reduce negative emotions and stress in healthcare workers and couples\, reducing workplace burnout\, on-the-job errors\, relationship breakdown and their associated economic costs.\nProf Mark Dadds (NHMRC MRFF Neurological Disorders\, co-CIs Dr Lucy Tully\, Prof Valsa Eapen\, Prof Bruce Tonge) Title: “Evaluation of a new brief intervention for childhood autism spectrum disorders”. Project Summary: Autism (ASD) is a complex lifelong disorder that involves social impairments and major challenges for caregivers. Research shows that parent mediated interventions can have a significant impact on maximising outcomes for these children. Surprisingly\, there are no interventions currently available that address core ASD symptoms\, behaviour disturbances\, and parental well-being in one intervention\, despite research showing that these outcomes are interdependent and amenable to change. Resourceful parents may be able to access each component individually\, but they would have to attend different agencies\, often university-based research trials\, and could not access them as an integrated intervention. As separate interventions\, they would add up to approximately 20-40 sessions\, whereas we have pilot data indicating an integrated intervention could produce effects in ~12 sessions. In addition\, current interventions for core symptoms were developed in the USA/UK\, and have prohibitive costs for training/accreditation. As a result\, there continues to be widespread implementation of ineffective or unsupported interventions for ASD in the Australian community. There is an urgent need to develop\, evaluate and disseminate an integrated parenting intervention for children with ASD that: 1) is empirically-supported\, time-limited and cost-effective; 2) addresses the interdependent domains of child and parent functioning within the one intervention; and 3) can be delivered during the child’s early critical development. We have developed a brief parent-mediated intervention that produces positive change\, is consistent with new priorities of the NDIS\, and has the potential to transform the landscape of interventions available for children with ASD early in life. We will conduct a large randomised controlled trial in preparation for national roll-out of the intervention and contribute new knowledge about how elements of treatment interact to influence outcomes for children with ASD.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-laureate-talks-by-a-prof-carolyn-maccann-prof-mark-dadds-school-of-psychology-university-of-sydney/
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