Graduate (PhD/MSc) positions in Affective, Cognitive, and Clinical
Neuroscience for Summer/Fall 2007.
The laboratory of Dr. Florin Dolcos at the University of Alberta's
Department of Psychiatry seeks outstanding graduate students for projects
investigating the neural correlates of affective-cognitive interactions
with functional neuroimaging tools (e.g., fMRI). The successful candidates
will have the opportunity to do research in the following two main
directions:
1. Basic Research investigating the neural mechanisms underlying the
impact of emotion on cognition in healthy groups. This direction focuses
on identifying the mechanisms that are responsible for the enhancing
(e.g., enhanced memory for emotional events) and the impairing (e.g.,
enhanced susceptibility to emotional distraction) effects of emotion on
cognitive functions.
2. Translational Research investigating the role of individual differences
in mediating the impact of emotion on cognition. This direction focuses on
identifying the neural circuitry responsible for differential ability to
experience, regulate, and remember emotions associated with age-, gender-,
and personality-related differences, in both healthy and clinical cohorts
(i.e., mood and anxiety disorders).
Application/admission can be made through the Departments of Psychiatry
(http://www.psychiatry.ualberta.ca/) and the Centre for Neuroscience
(http://www.neuroscience.ualberta.ca/), at the University of Alberta
(http://www.ualberta.ca/).
For specific details concerning the projects and/or admission
requirements, please contact Dr. Florin Dolcos ([log in to unmask] /
[log in to unmask]). Review of applications will begin immediately and
continue until the positions (1-2) are filled. The start date will be
Summer/Fall 2007.
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