BarneyDunn - CBU MRI facility Wiki

Revision 33 as of 2006-09-11 14:50:58

Clear message
location: BarneyDunn

Barney Dunn

attachment:BarneyDunn.bmp

Contact Details

If you would like a reprint of any of my articles, are interested in collaborating with our research group, or would like information about available student projects please contact me:

Email: barney.dunn@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

Postal: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 2EF

Research

My research examines emotion experience and regulation in common mental health problems, using a combination of cognitive-experimental, neuroimaging and psychophysiological methods. The eventual goal of this work is to help develop novel emotion regulation interventions to supplement existing therapeutic strategies. I work four days a week at the CBU under the supervision of Tim Dalgleish and in collaboration with other members of the emotion research group. I am also an honorary lecturer at the Sub Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London, where I supervise the research dissertations of trainee clinical psychologists.

Clinical Practice

I am also a qualified clinical psychologist. I work one day a week in London in an out-patients adult mental health setting, practicing cognitive behavioural therapy and cognitive analytic therapy. I am particularly interested in developing effective ways of working with emotion regulation difficulties in clients with personality and mood disorders.

Career History

I graduated from the University of Oxford in Experimental Psychology in 1997. I then worked as a research assistant at Cambridge University Department of Psychiatry, investigating early detection and differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. I completed my PhD at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in 2002, examining the extent to which altered feedback from the body may contribute to depression. I then underwent clinical psychology training at University College London, before returning to the CBU as a Senior Investigator Scientist in 2005.

Current Studies

  • The consequences of different forms of emotion regulation in depression, post traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and borderline personality disorder
  • Effects of emotional suppression when processing traumatic material
  • Accuracy of self-focused attention to mind and body in anxiety and depression
  • The impact of mindfulness meditation techniques on response to emotional material
  • Pilotting the use of DBT skills as procedural exits in cognitive analytic therapy
  • The contribution of body-state feedback to the emotional and decision-making symptoms of depression
  • An fMRI investigation of the neural substrate of thought suppression
  • An fMRI investigation of the neural representation of basic emotions
  • Empirical evaluation of Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis

Publications

Preprint pdfs of some of these articles are available on the laboratory ["Publications"] page. If you cannot find the article you are interested in or you would like a journal copy please e-mail me.

  • Dunn, B. D., Dalgleish, T., Lawrence, A. D., Ogilvie, A. D. (in press). Heart beat perception in dysphoria and depression. Behaviour Research and Therapy.
  • Dunn, B. D., Dalgleish, T., Lawrence, A. D., & Ogilvie, A. D. (in press). The accuracy of self-monitoring and its relationship to self-focused attention in dysphoria and clinical depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

  • Dunn, B. D., Dalgleish, T., & Lawrence, A. (2006). The somatic marker hypothesis: A critical evaluation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 30 (2), 239 – 271.

  • Blackwell, A. D., Dunn, B. D., Owen, A. M., & Sahakian, B. (2005). Neuropsychological assessment of dementia. In O'Brien, Ames & Burns (Eds.), Dementia (3rd ed.): Hodder Arnold.

  • Dunn, B. D., Dalgleish, T., Lawrence, A. D., Cusack, R., & Ogilvie, A. D. (2004). Categorical and Dimensional Reports of Experienced Affect to Emotion-Inducing Pictures in Depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113(4), 654 - 660.

  • Dunn, B. D., & Bolton, W. (2004). The impact of borderline personality traits on challenging behaviour: implications for learning disabilities services. British Journal of Forensic Practice, 6(4), 3 - 9.

  • Dunn, B. D., Owen, A. M., & Sahakian, B. (2001). Neuropsychological Assessment of Dementia. In O'Brien, Ames & Burns (Eds.), Dementia (2nd ed.): Arnold Publishers.

  • Swainson, R., Hodges, J. R., Galton, C. J., Semple, J., Dunn, B. D., Iddon, J. L., et al. (2001). Early detection and differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease and Depression with neuropsychological tests. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 12, 265 - 280.

Theses

  • Phd, University of Cambridge, 2002: Exploring the interaction of mind and body in depression
  • DClinPsy, University College London, 2004: Emotional suppression when processing trauma: Implications for mood and memory.