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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

McNaughton, N., Shadli, S. M., Beaglehole, B., & Glue, P. (2026). Hope for neurotic disorders: A summary of New Zealand research on the development of biomarkers and novel treatments. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 56, e70002. doi: 10.1002/snz2.70002 Journal - Research Other

Woods, C. F., McIntosh, V. V. W., Beaglehole, B., & Bell, C. (2026). Mental health service utilization after natural disasters: A systematic review. Psychiatric Services. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.20250063 Journal - Research Other

Tennant, M., & Beaglehole, B. (2025). Band-Aids for broken bones: Why people with severe mental disorders are still missing out. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1623), 9-11. doi: 10.26635/6965.e1623 Journal - Research Other

Nasrollahi, N., Shadli, S. M., Young, C. K., Schuck, G. S. R., Whatson, M. G., Kawe, T., Neehoff, S., Beaglehole, B., Glue, P., & McNaughton, N. (2025). Ketamine effects on EEG and their links to therapy differ across treatment-resistant major depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. In A. Banstola (Ed.), Proceedings of the 41st International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research (AWCBR). 11.5, (pp. 57). Retrieved from https://www.awcbr.org Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Beaglehole, B., & Manuel, J. (2025). Reappraisal of the hype and hope offered by psilocybin treatment of depression. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1622), 94-97. doi: 10.26635/6965.7138 Journal - Research Other

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