Professor Paul B. Fitzgerald
Paul B. Fitzgerald, M.B.B.S., M.P.M., Ph.D., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
is Professor of Psychiatry, Deputy Director,
and Consultant Psychiatrist at Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, a
joint research centre of Monash University and the Alfred Hospital in
Melbourne, Australia. He is a qualified psychiatrist, has a Masters of
Psychological Medicine, and a research PhD.
Paul runs a substantive research program utilizing brain stimulation and
neuroimaging techniques including transcranial magnetic stimulation,
functional and structural MRI, EEG, and near infrared spectroscopy. The
program has focused on the conduct of investigative studies of brain
function as well as brain dysfunction in a range of disorders including
depression, schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, substance
dependence, and autism. In addition he runs a variety of novel clinical
trials in Mood, Anxiety, Psychotic, and Developmental Disorders. These
include trials of techniques such as repetitive transcranial magnetic
stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation and deep brain
stimulation.
He has published over 90 papers and received
grant funding
from Australian and US based organizations. He is on the editorial
boards of a number of journals including
Brain Stimulation.
Paul coauthored
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
in the Treatment of Depression,
A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Sequential Bilateral
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
for Treatment-Resistant Depression,
The mechanisms of interhemispheric inhibition in the human motor
cortex,
Intensity-dependent effects of 1 Hz rTMS on human corticospinal
excitability,
Exploring the connectivity between the cerebellum and motor cortex in
humans,
Evidence for Impaired Cortical Inhibition in Schizophrenia Using
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, and
Reduced Cerebellar Inhibition in Schizophrenia: A Preliminary
Study.
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Estrogen Relieves Psychotic Symptoms In Women With
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