A $1,505,750 grant to investigate neurocognitive correlates of transition from ultra-high risk mental state to schizophrenia.
Vercammen A, Rushby JA, Loo C, Short B, Weickert CS, Weickert TW. (In Press). Transcranial direct current stimulation influences probabilistic association learning in people with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research.
Schizophrenia is associated with heterogeneity in symptoms, cognition and treatment response.
A $381,150 grant to research cognitive enhancement in schizophrenia via a selective estrogen receptor modulator.
Morris RW, Vercammen A, Lenroot R, Moore L, Langton JM, Short B, Kulkarni J, Curtis, J, O’Donnell M, Weickert CS, Weickert TW. (In Press). Disambiguating ventral striatum fMRI related BOLD signal during reward prediction in schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry.
Reward detection, surprise detection and prediction-error signaling have all been proposed as roles for the ventral striatum (vStr).
Rushby J.A.*, Vercammen A.*, Loo C., Short B., Weickert C.S., Weickert T.W. (In Press). Frontal versus parietal contributions to probabilistic association learning. Cerebral Cortex.
Neuroimaging studies have shown both dorsolateral prefrontal (DLPFC) and inferior parietal cortex (iPARC) activation during probabilistic association learning.
A $94,110 grant for Magpro 100 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator with Motor Evoked Potential option and 2 water-cooled stimulation coils.
A $30,000 grant to investigate establishing a collaborative clinical research network to facilitate interdisciplinary investigations into the mechanisms of transition from prodrome to schizophrenia.
The unique contribution of different brain regions to category learning remains unclear and represents a critical gap in our current knowledge base.
