Congratulations to MAPrc students on completing their PhDs

Congratulations to Melissa Kirkovski and Eric Tan from Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre who have both recently completed their PhDs.

Melissa, who was supervised by Professor Paul Fitzgerald and Associate Professor Peter Enticott, completed her thesis which looked at gender differences in the brain basis of Autism Spectrum Disorders. She enjoyed working with a great research team and being exposed to a variety of different types of research in mental health.

Eric's research explored the origins, causes and impacts of speech problems in schizophrenia and was particularly interested in how these speech problems impact a patient’s quality of life. Eric was supervised by Dr Susan Rossell and Dr Gregory Yelland. His other research interests include other language disorders, memory, cognition, quality of life and early/pre-psychosis phenomena.