List of possible supervisors is subject to change.

• sensorimotor neuroscience
• motor timing
• dynamical systems modeling
• neuroimaging

• retinal anatomyphysiology & pharmacology
• neural plasticity
• adaptation: retina regeneration

• mood disorders

• narrative research
• qualitative analysis
• suicide
• recovery
• hope
• web-based research

Bray, S.R.
Web Site
Ext. 26472
IWC A204 - sbray@mcmaster.ca

• social cognition and physical activity
• self-regulation of behaviour

• cognitive mechanisms of psychopathology with emphasis on schizophrenia 

• child psychology

• speech processing & reading
• neuroimaging
• acquired brain injury & communication disorders

Molecules originally thought to be unique to the immune system are present and functional in the brain. Work in our laboratory investigates the importance of immune molecules to normal brain function, how altered immune function may contribute to the development and maintenance of psychiatric disorders, and eventually, how to best therapeutically target immune genes and their signaling pathway in disease.

• neuroimmunology of psychiatric illness
• immune-brain interactions
• stress response in animal models of depression

• neurobiology of mood disorders, with emphasis on brain imaging and peripheral markers
• clinical and neurobiological aspects of mood dysregulation during premenstrual period, pregnancy, postpartum and menopause

• neuropharmacology of mental disorders including schizophrenia & neurodegenerative disease
• Parkinson's

• social dimensions
• health technology
• innovation
• assessment & rationing
• health policy & decision making

• schizophrenia
• Cognitive Rehabilitation
• Psychological Assessments

• pain (perception, assessment, management, gender differences)

• children's mental health
• children with developmental disabilities

• investigating children's readiness to learn at school at the transition from kindergarten to grade 1

• aging
• cognition
• schizophrenia
• neurobiology
• neuropsychology
• visual processing

Kuperman, Victor
Web Site 
(905) 525-9140, Ext. 20384
TSH 626 – vickup@mcmaster.ca

• psycholinguistics and quantitative linguistics,
• eye-movement behavior in reading
• individual differences in word and sentence processing,
• statistical and experimental methods in language research

• eating disorders and beliefs concerning weight control
• family factors and eating disorders
• factors affecting treatments and relapse in eating disorders

• educational psychology
• program assessment
• clinical psychology

• clinical child

• I am interested in the neural mechanisms involved in the deployment of attentional resources in three-dimensional space in both non-brain injured and brain injured individuals. As well, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)technology, I am interested in the impact of acquired brain injury (e.g., stroke) on residual neurocognitive function and potential resource re-allocation. Lastly, again using fMRI technology, I am interested in the various types of executive dysfunction(s) observed in people suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

NOT AVAILABLE 2012-2013
Lyons, J.L.
Web Site
27899 - IWC-AB120
lyonsjl@mcmaster.ca

• visual regulation of goal directed movement
• perceptualmotor behaviour in special populations
• human-computer interactions
• human factors/cognitive ergonomics

• malingering
• risk assessment
• mental illness & violent behaviour
• policy psychology-hostage negotiating

• anxiety disorders

• behavioral & rehabilitation medicine

• psychosocial antecedents and consequences of physical activity
• exercise and psychological well-being
• self-regulation of exercise behaviour

• factors (personality constructs life history information processing etc) related to phenomenology of anxiety & it's disorders
• actors affecting behavioural treatment for anxiety disorders
• health anxiety
• eating disorders

• mood disorders
• PTSD
• autobiographical memory
• social cognition
• frontal lobes, dementia

• functional brain mechanisms moderating impact of emotion on cognitive & neuropsychological processes

• neuropharmacology
• role of peptides in CNS function
• antipsychotic drug mechanisms
• molecular cloning

• historical linguistics
• language change
• particularly romance linguistics
• phonology
• morophonology

• forensic psychology
• sexual and physical aggression
• psychopathology

• clinical
• developmental

• cognitive research on clinical reasoning
• measurement methodology

• cognitive behavioural therapy for bipolar disorder
• mood disorders
• psychosocial rehabilitation

• development of GC/LC-MS diagnostic tests
• gene therapy

• autism & pervasive developmental disorders
• developmental & learning disabilities
• behavioural interventions

• behavioral ecology

• anxiety disorders
• cognitive behavioural models and treatment of anxiety disorders (with a focus on obsessive compulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder)

• my research largely focuses on aberrant behavior and brain morphology during chronic autoimmune disease

Sassi, R.
Web Site
905-522-1155, x 35448 - sassir@mcmaster.ca

• biological markers of mood disorders in children and adolescents
• multigenerational transmission of psychopathology

• workplace aggression & violence
• aggression in service settings
• work-related stress
• attitudes toward money & pay
• young workers

• music perception and cognition
• sensory integration
• auditory perception

• working memory in language processing and learning
• second-language acquisition
• dyslexia
• working memory impairments

• study of communication disorders
• translation theory

• evidence-based education

• My current research involvement includes the response to CBT for mood disorders. I use psychological test and interview data to determine the roles of psychological trauma, therapeutic alliance, alexithymia and trauma symptoms in outcome with CBT groups.

• language & sociolinguistics
• linguistic theory
• cognitive linguistics: thematic roles
• language philosophy

• collective intelligence

• developmental disabilities
• behaviour phenotypes
• autism and pervasive developmental disorders

• psychiatric geneticsbrain-behaviour relationships & epidemiology of childhood
• psychiatric disorders

• psychostimulants & behavior
• obsessive compulsive disorder
• schizophrenia
• animal models

• metabolic syndrome in patients with mood disorders

• prognosis and outcome in the treatment of eating disorders
• interpersonal relationships and mental health
• treatment trajectories of youth struggling with eating disorders
• cultural and gender differences in self-construal, self-discrepancies, depression and anxiety
• endorsement of gender roles and implications for romantic relationships - intimacy, trust, love, and attachment style

• neuropsychological assessment & treatment of mild to severe brain injuries

• outcome research on intensive behaviour intervention for children with autism, pervasive developmental disorders
• assessment and treatment of children and adults with severe behaviour disorders, including sexual offending, self-injury, aggression

• industrial psychology

• neuropsychological studies of brain-behavior relationships
• sex differences in cognition
• sexual orientation
• MRImaging
• neuroanatomical studies in human brain in relation to psychological characteristic
• genetic epidemiology of autism spectrum disorders
• diagnosis and phenomenology of autism spectrum disorders

Woolhouse, M.
Web Site
23669
TSH/427 (SOTA) - woolhouse@mcmaster.ca

• music perception and cognition
• music and dance
• music downloading/streaming

Yoon, TJ
Web Site
24537
TSH/625 - tjyoon@mcmaster.ca

• phonetics
• phonology
• speech production
• speech perception
• corpus phonetics
• computerized speech synthesis
• computerized speech recognition