Dr Mike Lyvers
Associate Professor
Faculty of Society and Design
Bond University
Australia
Biography
Dr. Lyvers has taught psychology courses at UCLA, California State University Northridge, and the University of Maryland European Division. His doctoral dissertation concerned the autonomic and cognitive effects of acute alcohol intoxication in social drinkers. After receiving a grant from the American Cancer Society, he conducted postdoctoral research at UCLA on the psychophysiological correlates of cigarette smoking and nicotine withdrawal. He continued to study the central nervous system effects of smoking during a two-year research fellowship at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan, sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Dr. Lyvers joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at Bond University in 1995. He was also a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University in 1999.
Research Interest
psychophysiology, psychopharmacology, biological psychology, neuroscience, consciousness, and drug and alcohol dependence.
