2006 - 2009  DPhil Student University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry                       Supervisor: Dr Emily Holmes Group: Experimental Psychopathology and Cognitive Therapies Research Group (EPACT) Award: Department of Psychiatry Bursary for Overseas students DPhil Thesis: Positive interpretation training in the context of depressed mood. 2002 - 2005  Bachelor of Psychology with honours, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

My Undergraduate Thesis was on "Increased vulnerability to stress following opiate dependence: the role of glucocorticoids, serotonin and noradrenaline". Following the completion of my undergraduate degree in Psychology at UNSW, Australia, I worked for a year as a research assistant with Dr Michelle Moulds, UNSW. My research interests are in the area of Experimental Psychopathology, and in particular, the area of depression. It is my aspiration to become a clinical academic combining experimental research with its application in a clinical setting.

DPhil Research aims

My research is examining the relationship between cognitive bias and information processing in depression. The main focus of my research is positive interpretation training in the context of depression. Overall, it is my hope that this work will inform both theory and treatment development in the future.

Awards

Publications

Williams, A. D., Moulds, M. L., Grisham, J. R., Gay, P., Lang, T., Kandris, E., Werner-Seidler, A., & Yap, C. (in press). Psychometric evaluation of the Thought Control Ability Questionnaire (TCAQ) and the prediction of cognitive control. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.

Holmes, E.A., Lang, T.J., & Deeprose, C. (2009). Mental imagery and emotion in treatments across disorders: Using the example of depression. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 38, 21-28.

Lang, T.J., Moulds, M.L., & Holmes, E.A. (2009). Reducing Depressive Intrusions via a Computerized Cognitive Bias Modification of Appraisals Task: Developing a Cognitive Vaccine. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47(2), 139-145.

Holmes, E. A., Lang, T. J., & Shah, D. M. (2009). Developing interpretation bias modification as a 'cognitive vaccine' for depressed mood - Imagining positive events makes you feel better than thinking about them verbally. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118(1), 76-88.

Holmes, E.A., Lang, T.J., Moulds, M., & Steele, A.M. (2008). Prospective and positive mental imagery deficits in dysphoria. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46(8), 976-981.

Moulds, M. L., Kandris, E., Williams, A. D., & Lang, T. J. (2008). The use of safety behaviours to manage intrusive memories in depression. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46(5), 573-580

Moulds, M. L., Kandris, E., Williams, A. D., Lang, T., Yap, C., & Hoffmeister, K. (2008). An investigation of the relationship between cognitive reactivity and rumination. Behavior Therapy, 39(1), 65-71.

Conference presentations

Lang, T.J., Moulds, M., Holmes, E.A., (2009, July) Computerized Cognitive Bias Modification of Appraisals Task Reducing Depressive Intrusions. Symposium to be conducted at the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition Conference, Japan, July, 26th – 30h 2008.

Deeprose, C., Lang, T. J., Moulds, M. L. & Holmes, E. A. (2009, July) Reducing depressive intrusions using computerized cognitive bias modification of appraisals task. Symposium to be conducted at the 37th British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies annual conference. Exeter, July, 15th – 18th, 2009.

Lang, T.J., Steele, A.M., Moulds, M.L, & Holmes, E.A. (2008, July) Positive and Prospective Mental Imagery in the Context of Depressed Mood. Symposium to be conducted at the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 36th Annual Conference, Edinburgh, July, 16th – 19th 2008.

Lang, T.J., & Holmes, E.A. (2007, September) Verbal comparisons during positive interpretation training. Symposium to be conducted at the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 35th Annual Conference, Sussex, September, 12th - 14th 2007.

Moulds, M.L., Kandris, E., Williams, A.D., Lang, T., Auyeung, J., & Hoffmeister, K. (2007, November). The effect of negative mood on the recall of intrusive autobiographical memories in recovered depression. Symposium to be presented at the 41st Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Philadelphia, USA.

Lang, T. J., & Holmes, E. A. (2007, December) Poster session presented at the annual conference of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the British Psychological Society, London, UK.

tamara.lang@psych.ox.ac.uk