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Ben Beaglehole imageAssociate Professor

MB ChB (Otago) FRANZCP

Email ben.beaglehole@otago.ac.nz

Ben Beaglehole is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychological Medicine, UOC and psychiatrist at the Anxiety Disorders Service for the Canterbury District Health Board.

Ben participates in the Departmental research projects examining the longer-term outcome of mood disorders and interventions to increase the likelihood of response and remission.

Ben also researches the psychological effects of natural disasters, ketamine for treatment resistant mood and anxiety disorders, and the use of large databases to explore the impacts of compulsory treatment.

Publications

Beaglehole, B., Tennant, M., & Fitzjohn, J. (2026). Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) guidelines for the management of schizophrenia’. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/00048674261467617 Journal - Research Other

Shadli, S. M., Nasrollahi, N., Young, C. K., Schuck, G. S. R., Whatson, M. G., Kawe, T., Neehoff, S., Beaglehole, B., Glue, P., & McNaughton, N. (2026). Ketamine effects on EEG and their links to therapy differ across treatment-resistant major depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/ijnp/pyag037 Journal - Research Article

Glue, P., & Beaglehole, B. (2026). Ketamine dosing across clinical indications: A narrative review organized by proposed NMDA-related mechanisms. Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 66(6), e70225. doi: 10.1002/jcph.70225 Journal - Research Article

Tanveer, S., Schluter, P. J., Porter, R. J., Boden, J. M., Beaglehole, B., Sulaiman-Hill, R., Dean, S., … Bell, C. (2026). Comparing the psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in seven low- and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional study. PLOS Global Public Health, 6(6), e0005944. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0005944 Journal - Research Article

Alderson, E., Bowden, N., McLay, L., Beaglehole, B., & Schluter, P. J. (2026). Implications of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnostic timing on mental health service utilisation in young adult females: A population-based record linkage cohort study. JCPP Advances. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/jcv2.70133 Journal - Research Article

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