Professor Cliff Abraham
Email cabraham@psy.otago.ac.nz
Tel 64 3 479 7648
Professor Cliff Abraham has research interests in the neural mechanisms of memory. He has played a leading role in promoting neuroscience research and teaching at the University of Otago, and has promoted neuroscience at a national level by serving as chair of the Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research, New Zealand’s annual neuroscience meeting in Queenstown, for 12 years.
In 1997 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and in 2007 was awarded a James Cook Fellowship. Currently he is Director of Otago’s Brain Health Research Centre, and is Director of a major HRC-funded research programme investigating biomarkers and therapeutic agents for Alzheimer’s Disease.
Cliff received a BA with Distinction in Psychology from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Florida. He then undertook five years of postdoctoral research at the University of Otago and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, before taking up a Lectureship in Psychology at Otago. He chaired the Department in 2003-2005.
Teaching
PSYC 474 Nervous System Plasticity
Research Interests
- Mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and metaplasticity
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Limbic system function and dysfunction
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