Dr. Derek Mitchell
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
Dr. Mitchell's research is principally aimed at determining how dissociable neural systems integrate emotion with cognition and behaviour. The work is designed to provide fundamental knowledge about the functional neuroanatomy behind the experience and control of emotions such as fear, anxiety, and anger. The approach is also used to elucidate the pathophysiology of a range of psychiatric disorders from psychopathy, which features impoverished affective responding and poor behavioural controls, to mood and anxiety disorders, which feature a failure to manage or modulate emotional responding. Our techniques include fMRI, MEG, psychophysiological, and neuropsychological methods in healthy individuals, patients with developmental or acute psychiatric disorders, and patients with acquired brain lesions.
Research Interest
Psychiatry and Anatomy & Cell Biology
Publications
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Amting JM, Greening SG, Mitchell DG. Multiple mechanisms of consciousness: the neural correlates of emotional awareness. Journal of Neuroscience. 2010 Jul 28;30(30):10039-47.
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Mitchell DG. The nexus between decision making and emotion regulation: a review of convergent neurocognitive substrates. Behavioural brain research. 2011 Feb 2;217(1):215-31.
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Greening SG, Finger EC, Mitchell DG. Parsing decision making processes in prefrontal cortex: response inhibition, overcoming learned avoidance, and reversal learning. Neuroimage. 2011 Jan 15;54(2):1432-41.
