Advisory Board and Editors Psychiatry & Psychology
Marco Iacoboni
I am a neurologist and systems neuroscientist originally from Rome. I am interested in perception-action coupling. My interest in perception-action coupling led me to the study, among other things, of mirror neurons. Mirror neurons led me to study human imitation, empathy, and more generally what is called social cognition. As a neurologist, however, I also have a strong interest in the neurobiological mechanisms of neuropsychiatric conditions and how to intervene on those mechanisms.
Ryouhei Ishii
Dr. Ryouhei Ishii is Professor of Occupational Therapy Course, Osaka Prefecture University Graduate School of Comprehensive Rehabilitation. He completed his medical training at the Osaka University Hospital, he then worked under Professor Masatoshi Takeda as a graduate student on the clinical application of magnetoencephalography (MEG) in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry, the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University. Dr. Ishii received his PhD degrees in medicine at the Osaka University in 1999.
Rutsuko Ito
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Toronto at Scarborough.
PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience, Cambridge University
Beth Jefferies
Beth is a Professor of Psychology at the University of York, UK. Her research seeks to understand the neural basis of semantic cognition and language, and disorders affecting these aspects of cognition. She uses multiple neuroscientific methods, including neuropsychology, neuroimaging (MEG, fMRI) and brain stimulation to investigate how concepts are represented and flexibly retrieved.
Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology (2004)
Elizabeth Warrington Prize - British Neuropsychological Society (2008)
Cortex Prize - Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology (2010)
Blake W Johnson
Dr Blake W Johnson is Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Director of Research in Hearing and Cognition at Macquarie University. Dr Johnson's research uses functional neuroimaging techniques, particularly magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate the neural bases of cognition and its disorders. His current work examines auditory and cognitive brain function in children using a novel paediatric MEG instrument customised to fit the smaller heads of preschool-aged children.
Astrid M. Kamperman
Dr. Astrid Kamperman is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Erasmus University Medical Center. She is a psychiatric epidemiologist, statistician and methodologist with a strong affinity towards social psychiatric topics and issues related to women's mental health.
Selina Khoo
Selina Khoo is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Science, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Her research is related to participation of sports and physical activity for various populations, including older adults, persons with disabilities, women, and cancer survivors. This includes determining prevalence of physical activity, motives for participation, and interventions to increase physical activity. She also examines various aspects of disability sport, including accessibility, barriers and facilitators to participation, and media coverage. Selina is currently the country contact for Malaysia on the Global Observatory for Physical Activity and Vice President of the Asian Society for Adapted Physical Education and Exercise.
Robin SS Kramer
I am currently a senior lecturer at the University of Lincoln, UK. My work focusses on face recognition, specifically how we become familiar with faces despite (or because of) within-person variability in facial appearance.
Ziad Kronfol
Ziad Kronfol, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychiatry Clerkship Director at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar. He previously was Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Psychoneuroimmunology Program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Kronfol is past Vice-President of the Asian Federation of Psychiatric Associations, Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and member of the section on education in the World Psychiatric Association.
Keith R Laws
Keith Laws is Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology in the School of Life and Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire. He completed a PhD at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching and various academic organisations including the Experimental Psychology Society.
Liana S Leach
I am a psychiatric epidemiologist, and my research primarily investigates the impact of work and parenting transitions on mental health. I am currently a Research Fellow at the Research School of Population Health, at The Australian National University.
Jorge Leite
Prof. Doctor António Jorge da Costa Leite is Associate Professor within the Department of Psychology and Education at the Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal.
He is also Director of the Portucalense Institute for Human Development, and the PhD program in Clinical Psychology and Counselling.