Dr Joshua Garfield

Joshua Garfield has long had an interest in the interactions between drug use, the brain, and behaviour. He completed a bachelor of science with honours in psychology at the University of Tasmania in 2002, and then a PhD in behavioural neuroscience at the University of New South Wales in 2008, where he studied animal learning theory. After a brief stint working in depression research after finishing his PhD, he moved to Melbourne in 2011 to work at Monash University, based at Turning Point.

Since then he has been involved in managing several clinical research projects, including the large study of the role of anhedonia in opioid dependence, a study of the effects of opioids on taste preferences, and several studies of computerised cognitive “brain-training” as a treatment for alcohol and methamphetamine use problems.

He has also been involved in helping analyse and publish findings from several other large Turning Point projects, including the Patient Pathways project and a study on the prevalence of Gambling and Mental Illness.

You can check out Joshua's publications at Google Scholar.