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Professor Amanda Uliaszek's research examines
the role of personality traits in explaining psychopathological
phenomena. This includes how normal personality is related
to Axis II symptomatology, the structure of comorbidity,
and stress generation in depression and anxiety disorders.
She has a specific interest in personality disorders and
their developmental course over the lifespan, beginning
in late childhood. A secondary line of research involves
effectiveness trials of dialectical behavior therapy with
suicidal and multi-problem teens. This includes studying
the outcome of individual and group DBT within this population,
as well as dissemination and implementation of DBT. auliaszek@utsc.utoronto.ca
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Professor Andy
Lee's research explores the mechanisms by which memories are
formed, stored and retrieved in the human brain and how these
memory processes can be disrupted following brain damage.
His research uses a combination of techniques including functional
neuroimaging, neuropsychological assessment and eye-tracking
in healthy participants and brain damaged amnesic patients
to investigate how specific regions in the brain contribute
to the processing of long- and short-term memories. Of particular
interest is a group of structures in the medial temporal lobe
including the hippocampus, and how perceptual and mnemonic
processes may interact here. andylee@utsc.utoronto.ca |
Professor Rutsuko
Ito's research focuses on investigating the neural and neurochemical
systems in the brain that underlie reward-, or fear-related
learning using animal models. The ultimate goal of her research
is twofold; first, to gain a better understanding of how
the mammalian brain is organised to optimize the processing
(acquisition and recall) of emotional and contextual information,
and the impact such information has on motivation and behaviour,
and second, to establish how, and what aspect of these processes
go awry in psychological diseases such as addiction, schizophrenia
and phobias. rito@utsc.utoronto.ca
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