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Woodward, Todd - Biography

Degrees

Ph.D.

Other affiliations

• Research Scientist, BC Mental Health and Addictions Research
  Institute, Vancouver, B. C.
• Centre Investigator, Brain Research Centre, University of British
  Columbia, Vancouver, B. C.

Areas of research or clinical interest/specialty/expertise

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Cognitive Psychology, Functional Neuroimaging

Contact

BC Mental Health & Addictions Research Institute
in Child and Family Research Institute Building
Room 116, 3rd Floor, 938 W. 28th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V5Z 4H4
todd.woodward@ubc.ca
http://www3.telus.net/Todd_S_Woodward/

Interest in training/training positions that are available  

graduate students and post-docs

Research

The objective of my research program is to gain a functional and anatomical understanding of the brain systems that underlie the primary symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia. Three lines of research are being pursued. First, the cognitive correlates of the symptoms of psychosis are being explored by way of originally designed cognitive paradigms for memory confidence, source monitoring, reasoning, and semantic association. Second, functional neuroimaging is being utilized to identify the neural underpinnings of these cognitive functions, and how their dysfunction manifests as the symptoms of psychosis. Finally, methodological studies are being carried out which explore issues relating to the design of functional neuroimaging studies, and the analysis of functional neuroimaging data. Results from the methodological and cognitive studies are being integrated into the functional neuroimaging studies on an ongoing basis.