Biography
Dr Yucel's research productivity has been good since beginning his post-doctoral training in 2001. In that time he have been involved in producing over 60 publications, many as lead or senior author. Moreover, many of these publications have appeared in high-impact peer-reviewed journals including first author empirical papers in all four of the top international psychiatry journals (Archives of General Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, and Biological Psychiatry). He has also published in prestigious international neurological, neuroimaging, substance use, and neuroscience journals such as Cerebral Cortex, Addiction, Neuroimage, Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews. This level of productivity has been achieved despite the fact that his grant support only began in 2003. To date, his most significant empirical and theoretical contributions has been: (i) the development and extension of the neurodevelopmental theory of schizophrenia; (ii) the extension of the notion of inhibitory control deficits underlying the "compulsive" nature drug-related behaviour seen in addictive disorders; and (iii) applying cognitive tools and neuroimaging technologies to better understand neurobiological and phenomenology of psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression and drug addiction. Dr Murat Yucel is currently appointment as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne. He leads the Neuroimaging & Cognitive-Neuroscience research into Substance Use Disorders at ORYGEN Research Centre (ORC), and is Head of the Impulsive, Compulsive & Addictive Behaviour research stream at the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre (MNC). The goal of these research streams is to characterize how prefrontal and cingulate brain networks mature through the life-span and how disruptions to them (or their maturation) can render individuals susceptible to impulsive, compulsive and addictive behaviours.
Grants and Contracts
Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.
Grants
| Title |
Role |
Funding Source |
Scheme |
Award Date |
| INVESTIGATING THE SOCIAL BRAIN: THE NEURAL BASIS OF THE LINK BETWEEN DEPRESSED MOOD AND SOCIAL COGNITION |
Chief Investigator |
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL |
Discovery Projects |
01/01/2005 |
| A BRAIN IMAGING STUDY OF THE PAIN PARADOX IN DEPRESSION |
Chief Investigator |
PERPETUAL TRUSTEES AUST LTD |
Clive & Vera Ramaciotti Establishment Grant |
10/10/2007 |
| Brain development during adolescence and the emergence of depression: A longitudinal MRI study. |
Chief Investigator |
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL |
Discovery Projects |
01/01/2008 |
| Dysfunction in key brain networks: Implications for psychiatric and substance use disorders. |
Chief Investigator |
NHMRC |
Career Development Awards |
01/01/2008 |
| FIRST EPISODE DEPRESSION IN YOUNG PEOPLE: AN FMRI STUDY OF RESPONSES TO IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED, SOCIAL AND NON-SOCIAL REWARDS. |
Chief Investigator |
PFIZER AUST PTY LTD |
Neuro Science Research Grants |
01/01/2008 |
| Charting connectivity in the healthy and diseased brain |
Chief Investigator |
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL |
Discovery Projects |
01/01/2009 |
| Cognitive control dysfunction in opiate addiction |
Chief Investigator |
NHMRC |
Project Grants |
01/01/2010 |
Additional Grant and Contract Information
GRANTS - CURRENTLY HELD PROJECT & EQUIPMENT GRANTS________________________________________
2008-2012 Australian Research Council - Discovery Grant
Brain development during adolescence and the emergence of depression: A longitudinal MRI study.
Amount: $438,000.
Chief Investigators. Allen, Yucel, Wood, Lubman, Dudgeon, Harrison, Whittle____________________
2008-2010 National Ministry of Health & Consumer Affairs, Government of Spain
Intermediate phenotypes: A study of the association between genomic variants of COMT, 5-HTTLPR and BDNF and brain response to complex emotional paradigms in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Amount: $113,000 (Euro).
Chief Investigators. Alonso, Hernandez-Ribas, Pertusa, Soriano-Mas, Yucel, Harrison____________________
2007-2010 Investigator Initiated Grant, Astra Zeneca.
Neuroprotective Properties of Quetiapine versus Lithium in a First Episode Mania Cohort: 12-month Neuroanatomical, Neurochemical and Neuro-cognitive Effects and Preliminary Data of Prophylactic Properties.
Amount: $1,678,522.
Chief Investigators. Berk, Hallam, Lucas, MacNeil, Hasty, Kader, O'Regan, Callaly, Conus, Damodoran, Bortchie, Pantelis, Yucel, McGorry____________________
2005-2010 National Health and Medical Research Council - Program Grant
Investigating emerging severe mental illness in young people: Clinical staging, neurobiology, prediction & intervention from vulnerability to recovery.
Amount: $7,400,000.
Chief Investigators: McGorry, Pantelis, Hickie, Jackson, Yung
Principal Investigators: Berger, Brewer, Allen, Gleeson, Yucel, Phillips, Wood, Naismith, Walter, Richards, Davenport, Scott, Callaly, Weinberger, Bullmore, Fowler, McGuire, Pariante, Manji, Merikangas____________________
2008-2009 Ramaciotti Foundation - Project Grant.
A Brain Imaging Study of the Pain Paradox in Depression.
Amount: $28,800
Chief Investigators: Harrison, Pujol, Cardoner, Yucel, Soriano-Mas, Oritz, Lopez-Sola, Pantelis____________________
2008-2009 National Health and Medical Research Council - Project Grant.
Determining the cognitive sequelae of adolescent cannabis use: a longitudinal cohort study.
Amount: $252,125.
Chief Investigators. Solowij, Yucel, Lubman, Ciarrochi, Heaven____________________
2007-2009 National Health and Medical Research Council - Project Grant.
Learning and memory deficits in adult and adolescent cannabis users: Neural substrates of strategy utilisation.
Amount: $479,250.
Chief Investigators. Solowij, Seal, Lubman, McGuire
Associate Investigator. Yucel____________________
2005-2007 Australian Research Council - Discovery Grant:
Investigating the social brain: The neural basis of the link between depressed states and social cognition (ARC ID: DP0557663).
Amount: $215,000.
Chief Investigators: Allen, Yucel____________________
2007-2008 National Health and Medical Research Council, RAGS & Faculty Equipment Grant.
A physiological monitoring system for measuring emotional reactivity during functional brain scanning.
Amount: $68,350.
Chief Investigators. Yucel
Associate Investigator. Allen, Lubman____________________
