Dr Robert Dudas

University position

Clinical Lecturer

Departments

Department of Psychiatry

Research Themes

Clinical and Veterinary Neuroscience

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

I have carried out research projects on cognitive impairment in the context of progressive-degenerative dementias and affective symptomatology.

My current research focuses on the neurobiology of emotional dysregulation and self-harm in the affective disorders in a broad sense, including borderline personality disorder. I am interested in identifying cognitive and psychophysiological markers of pathological mood states with a view to developing novel treatments for these conditons. Our methodology includes functional brain imaging, neuropsychological tests, and physiological measurement.

Research Focus

Keywords

depression

borderline personality disorder

neuropsychology

brain imaging

psychophysiology

Clinical conditions

Alzheimer's disease

Borderline personality disorder

Cognitive impairment

Dementia

Depressive disorders

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Neuropsychological testing

Psychophysiological measures (e.g. galvanic skin response, heart rate, respiratory rate, etc)

Collaborators

Cambridge

Chess Denman

Key publications

Kozinszky Z, Dudas RB, Devosa I, Csatordai S, Tóth E, Szabó D, Sikovanyecz J, Barabás K, Pál A (2012), “Can a brief antepartum preventive group intervention help reduce postpartum depressive symptomatology?” Psychother Psychosom 81(2):98-107 Details

Dudas R, Berrios GE, Hodges JR (2005), “The Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination (ACE) in the differential diagnosis of early organic dementias from affective disorder” American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 13:218-26 Details

Dudas R, Clague F, Thompson SA, Graham KS, Hodges JR (2005), “Episodic and semantic memory in mild cognitive impairment” Neuropsychologia 43:13266-76 Details

Dudas R, Hans K, Barabas K (2005), “Strong correlation between anxiety and depressive symptoms and smoking status in schoolboys but not in schoolgirls” Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 125:87-92 Details

Publications

2012

Dudas RB, Csatordai S, Devosa I, Töreki A, Andó B, Barabás K, Pál A, Kozinszky Z (2012), “Obstetric and psychosocial risk factors for depressive symptoms during pregnancy.” Psychiatry Res 200(2-3):323-8 Details

Töreki A, Andó B, Keresztúri A, Sikovanyecz J, Dudas RB, Janka Z, Kozinszky Z, Pál A (2012), “The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: Translation and antepartum validation for a Hungarian sample.” Midwifery Details

2010

Kozinszky Z, Dudas RB, Csatordai S, Devosa I, Tóth E, Szabó D, Sikovanyecz J, Zádori J, Barabás K, Pál A (2010), “Social dynamics of postpartum depression: a population-based screening in South-Eastern Hungary.” Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol Details

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