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Dr Eric Tan

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Biography

Dr Eric Tan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Memory, Ageing and Cognition Centre, National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore. He holds an adjunct Senior Research Fellow position at the Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences at Swinburne University. 
His current projects focus on neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease, longitudinal patterns of cognitive decline in dementia and factors that predict dementia onset or conversion from mild cognitive impairment. He also works on projects studying speech disturbances in relation to relapse in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, semantic memory impairments, mechanisms of quality of life, cognitive remediation therapies and contributing factors to delusions.
He currently sits on the Board of the Schizophrenia International Research Society, the Executive Committee of the Australian Cognitive Neuroscience Society and the Steering Committee of the DISCOURSE in Psychosis Consortium.

Research interests

Clinical Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Quality of Life; Language

PhD candidate and honours supervision

Higher degrees by research

Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Co-Supervisor.

Honours

Available to supervise honours students.

Publications

Also published as: Tan, Eric; Tan, E.; Tan, E. J.; Tan, Eric J.; Tan, Eric Josiah
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Recent research grants awarded

  • 2022: Using Speech to Identify Co-Morbid Depression in People with Schizophrenia *; Barbara Dicker Brain Science grant
  • 2021: Can quantitative speech analysis techniques be used to identify people with depression? *; Barbara Dicker Brain Science grant
  • 2020: Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth mental health *; Barbara Dicker Brain Science grant
  • 2019: Examining a new method for relapse prediction in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder *; Jack Brockhoff Foundation Fund Scheme
  • 2018: Novel pathways toward improving relapse prediction in schizophrenia *; NHMRC Early Career Fellowship
  • 2016: Investigating factors that influence the efficacy of cognitive remediation therapy inindividuals with schizophrenia *; Research Endowment Fund

* Chief Investigator


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