BC Mental Health & Addictions Research Institute
Room 116, 3rd Floor, 938 W. 28th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V5Z 4H4

phone: 604-875-2000 x4724 fax: 604-875-3871
toddswoodward(at)gmail.com

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Current Positions

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
Research Scientist, BC Mental Health & Addictions Research Institute, Vancouver, BC

Training

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia (2003)
Ph.D. in experimental neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria (1999)
M.A. in experimental psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria (1993)
B.Sc. (Honours) in psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria (1989)

Current Research Interests

The objective of my research program is to gain a functional and anatomical understanding of the brain systems that underlie the primary symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia. Three lines of research are being pursued. First, the cognitive correlates of the symptoms of psychosis are being explored by way of originally designed cognitive paradigms for memory confidence, source monitoring, reasoning, and semantic association. Second, functional neuroimaging is being utilized to identify the neural underpinnings of these cognitive functions, and how their dysfunction manifests as the symptoms of psychosis. Finally, methodological studies are being carried out which explore issues relating to the design of functional neuroimaging studies, and the analysis of functional neuroimaging data. Results from the methodological and cognitive studies are being integrated into the functional neuroimaging studies on an ongoing basis.

Most of my research is carried out in the Riverview Hospital Cognitive Research laboratory, and we are always looking for people to participate in this research (follow this link if you would like more information).

Group Cognitive Bias Training courses are available, with a focus on delusions (follow this link if you would like more information).

Selected Recent Peer-reviewed Publications (selected from 60 published, in press or submitted manuscripts)

Functional Neuroimaging (fMRI)

Woodward, T. S., Cairo, T. A., Ruff, C. C., Takane, Y., Hunter, M.A. & Ngan, E.T.C. (2006). Functional connectivity reveals load dependent neural systems underlying encoding and maintenance in verbal working memory. Neuroscience, 139(1), 317-325.

Woodward, T. S., Ruff, C. C., & Ngan, E. T. C. (2006). Short- and long-term changes in anterior cingulate activation during resolution of task-set competition. Brain Research, 1068(1), 161-169.

Woodward, T. S., Meier, B., Cairo, T. A., & Ngan, E. T. C. (in press). Temporo-prefrontal coordination increases when semantic associations are strongly encoded. Neuropsychologia.

Ruff, C., Woodward, T. S., Laurens, K., & Liddle, P. (2001). The role of the anterior cingulate cortex in conflict processing: Evidence from reverse Stroop interference. NeuroImage, 14(5), 1150-1158.

Weinstein, S., Werker, J. F., Vouloumanos, A., Woodward, T. S., & Ngan, E. T. C. (in press) Do you hear what I hear? Neural correlates of thought disorder during listening to speech in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research.

Cairo, T., Liddle, P.F., Woodward, T. S., Ngan, E. T. C. (2004) The influence of working memory load on phase specific patterns of cortical activity. Cognitive Brain Research, 21, 377-387.

Tipper, C., Cairo, T., Woodward, T. S., Phillips, A., Liddle, P. F., & Ngan, E. T. C. (2005). Processing efficiency of the working memory system is modulated by amphetamine: an fMRI investigation. Neuropsychopharmacology, 180(4), 634-643.

Cairo, T. A., Woodward, T. S. & Ngan, E.T.C. (2006). The neural basis of working memory deficits in schizophrenia: an fMRI study. Biological Psychiatry, 59(8), 740-746.

Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia

Woodward, T. S. , Moritz, S., Arnold, M. S., Cuttler, C., Whitman, J. C., Lindsay, D. S. (in press). Increased "hindsight bias" in Schizophrenia. Neuropsychology.

Woodward, T. S., Moritz, S., Cuttler, C. & Whitman, J. C. (2006). The contribution of a cognitive bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE) to delusions in schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 28, 605-617.

Woodward, T. S., Moritz, S. & Chen, E. (2006). The contribution of a cognitive bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE) to delusions: A study in an Asian sample with first episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Schizophrenia Research, 83, 297-298.

Woodward, T. S., Menon, M., Hu, X. & Keefe, R. S. E. (in press). Optimization of a multinomial model for investigations of hallucinations and delusions with source monitoring. Schizophrenia Research.

Moritz, S., & Woodward, T. S. (2006). The contribution of metamemory deficits to schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 155(1), 15-25.

Moritz, S., Woodward, T. S., Cuttler, C., Whitman, J. & Watson, J. M. (2004). False memories in schizophrenia. Neuropsychology, 18(2), 276-283.

Moritz, S., Woodward, T. S. & Chen, E. (2006). Investigation of metamemory dysfunctions in first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 81(2-3), 247-252.

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