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Joana Taylor Tavares

Position/Status

Research Associate

Email Address

jvt21@cam.ac.uk

Telephone

01223 767741

Qualifications
  • BA (Hons), Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge
  • MA, University of Cambridge
  • PhD, University of Cambridge
Membership of Professional Bodies and Associations

British Psychological Society

Profile

My PhD used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate oversensitivity to negative feedback in both Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder. The work was carried out in Cambridge and at the National Institutes of Health (USA) as part of the NIH-Cambridge Health Science Scholars Programme. Prior to this I worked as a research assistant in the department of Experimental Psychology investigating perceptual processing in autism.

I am currently working on an ESRC-funded project on primary school children's tacit and explicit understanding of object motion.

Research Topics

  • Science education
  • Neuroscience and Psychology in Education

Current Research Projects

  • Primary school children's tacit and explicit understanding of object motion
  • ESRC
  • Principal Investigator Professor Christine Howe

Publications

Taylor Tavares JV, Drevets WC & Sahakian BJ (2008). Cognition in mania and depression, Psychological Medicine 33(6): 959-67.

Taylor Tavares JV, Clark L, Cannon D, Erickson K, Drevets W, Sahakian BJ,
(2007). Distinct profiles of neurocognitive function in unmedicated Unipolar depression and Biipolar II depression, Biological Psychiatry, 62(8): 917-924.

Taylor Tavares JV, Clark L, Furey ML, Williams GB, Sahakian BJ, Drevets WC (2008). Neural basis of abnormal response to negative feedback in unmedicated mood disorders, Neuroimage, 42(3): 1118-26.