Darren Christensen

Associate Professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Addictions Counselling

Disciplines
Psychology
Campus
Lethbridge

Research expertise

Darren R. Christensen received his PhD in psychology from the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has previously worked at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Melbourne examining the efficacy of contingency management as a treatment for substance dependence and problem gambling. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and a Board of Governors Research Chair (Tier II) at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge, a senior research fellow sponsored by the Alberta Gambling Research Institute, and has honorary research status at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Melbourne and at Lincoln 免费福利资源在线看片.

His research includes developing behavioural treatments for problem gambling, counselling for problem gambling, evaluations of the effectiveness of harm minimisation measures, investigations of regular opioid antagonist dosing on gambling urge and brain function, opioid agonist replacement therapies, and electroencephalogram studies.

Topics

Addiction; Substance Abuse and Gambling. Choice and Decision-Making, Learning and Acquisition, Mathematical Models, Quantitative Analyses, Pharmacology, Neuroscience.

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