• Research Interests
Research & Teaching

Areas of Research Interests

  • Drug-induced movement disorders (Akathisia, tardive dyskinesia, tardive dystonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome).
  • Tourette's Syndrome.
  • Late-onset schizophrenia.
  • Selective and non-selective epilepsy surgery.
  • Neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy.
  • Motor abnormalities in depression and schizophrenia.
  • Dementia (Alzheimer's disease, Vascular dementia, Lobar dementia).
  • Psychiatric and cognitive aspects of cerebrovascular disease.
  • Psychosurgery.
  • Neuroimaging.
  • Attention Deficit Disorder.
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
  • Carbonmonoxide poisoning.
  • Cultural Psychiatry, especially Psychiatric Illness in the New Zealand Maori.
  • Philosophical and ethical aspects of Psychiatry and Neuroscience.
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Resistant Depression.