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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Garavan, Hugh Patrick | |
| Main Department | Psychology | |
| College Title | Adjunct Associate Professor | |
| hugh.garavan@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | ||
| Web | http://tcdlocalportal.tcd.ie/pls/public/staff.detail?p_unit=psychology&p_name=garavanh | |
| Fax | +353 1 896 3183 | |
| Biography | |
| My primary degree was in Psychology from University College Dublin which I completed in 1990. I then moved to the USA, to Bowling Green State University in Ohio where I completed my PhD in 1995 under the supervision of Michael Doherty. My thesis was a study of attentional processes in working memory and demonstrated that there in an limit of just one item to which we can attend within working memory. Next, I moved to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where I studied the effects of perinatal lead and prenatal cocaine exposure on cognitive abilities in a rodent model. In 1997, I started a postdoc with Elliot Stein at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. It was there that I started neuroimaging research on cocaine users. I took a lecturer position in Trinity College Dublin in 2000, was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005 and an Associate Professor in 2007. I was elected a Fellow of TCD in 2004 and was the first Director of Functional Imaging in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (2003 - 2006). I will be the Director of Undergraduate Learning and Teaching for 2010-2012. I also have appointments at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Wisconsin and the Nathan Kline Institute in New York. | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| Programme Committee for the International Neuropsychology Society Meeting in Dublin (July 2005) | 2005 |
| Programme Committee for the European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting in Dublin (September 2005) | 2005 |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Member: Organisation for Human Brain Mapping |
| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Postgraduate Research Fellowship | 1993-1994 |
| Fellow, Trinity College Dublin | 2004 |
| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| Description of Research Interests |
| Human cognition (executive functions, working memory); Functional neuroimaging of cognitive and affective processes; Neuroimaging of clinical disorders; Drug addiction. |
| Research Interests | |||
| ACTIVATION | AGE-RELATED-CHANGES | ANATOMY | ATTENTION |
| Addiction | BRAIN ACTIVATION | Brain Imaging | CARD SORTING TEST |
| CEREBRAL BLOOD-FLOW | COLOR-WORD TASK | FRONTAL-LOBE | FUNCTIONAL MRI |
| GO/NO-GO DISCRIMINATION | INFERIOR PREFRONTAL CORTEX | NEURAL ACTIVITY | PERFORMANCE |
| PET | POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY | POSITRON-EMISSION-TOMOGRAPHY | PREFRONTAL CORTEX |
| REGIONAL BRAIN ACTIVITY | TASKS | VERBAL WORKING-MEMORY |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Neurocognitive risk and protective factors for addiction |
| Summary | €300,000 (Principal Investigator) |
| Funding Agency | Health Research Board |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2008 |
| Date to | 2011 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | The role of executive functions in cocaine abuse (continuation) |
| Summary | $814,000 (Principal Investigator) |
| Funding Agency | National Institute of Drug Abuse |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2006 |
| Date to | 2010 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Reinforcement-related behaviour in normal brain function and psychopathology |
| Summary | €10 million (Prinicipal Investigator (Ireland component)) |
| Funding Agency | EU Framework 6 |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2006 |
| Date to | 2011 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | A biofeedback-based training programme to improve attention and impulsivity in Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| Summary | €300,000 (Co-Applicant) |
| Funding Agency | Health Research Board |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2009 |
| Date to | 2012 |
| Person Months | |
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| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Schumann, G., Loth, E., Banaschewski, T, Barker, G., PhD, Buechel, C., Conrod, P.J., Dalley, J.W., Flor, H., Gallinat, J., Garavan, H., Heinz, A., Itterman, B., Lathrop, M., Martinot, J.-L., Mann, K., Poline, J.B., Robbins, T.W., Rietschel, M., Reed, L., Smolka, M., Spanagel, R., Stephens, D.N., Stroehle, A., Paus, T. and the IMAGEN consortium. , The IMAGEN study: Reinforcement-related behaviour in normal brain function and psychopathology, Molecular Psychiatry | |
| Garavan, H.,, The Insula and Drug Cravings, Brain Structure & Function | |
| Richardson, T., & Garavan, H. , Correlations between hypomania and measures of impulsivity and risk taking behaviours in an international sample of undergraduate students, The Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences | |
| Simões-Franklin, C., Hester, R., Shpaner, M., Foxe, J., & Garavan, H. , Executive Function and Error Detection: The Effect of Motivation on Cingulate and Ventral Striatum Activity. , Human Brain Mapping, 31, 2010, p458 - 469 | |
| Roberts, GM and Garavan, H , Evidence of increased activation underlying cognitive control in ecstasy and cannabis users, NeuroImage, 52, (2), 2010, p429-435 Url TARA - Full Text DOI |
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