Dr. Gloria Roberts

Biography

Dr. Gloria Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of New South Wales. Her primary research focuses on determining predictors for the development of bipolar disorder in high-risk populations. She has particular interests in the neural basis of executive functioning and how these relate to individuals at high risk for developing bipolar disorder as well as those with fully established mood disorders. Her predominant areas of interest include cognitive control and emotional processing, and she investigates the neurobiology underlying emotion dysregulation characteristic of mood disorders. Dr. Roberts employs structural and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a primary research tool to understand the neural mechanisms of human function and dysfunction. Her collaborations include research with the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane and Neuroscience Research Australia in Sydney. She is actively involved in advanced neuroimaging analysis techniques, including diffusion tensor imaging tractography, dynamic causal modeling, graph theory, and machine learning.

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