MOOD AND ANXIETY DISORDERS RESEARCH GROUP 

 

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Amber Mather, B.A. (Hons)
Research Assistant
PZ-430 PsycHealth Centre
771 Bannatyne Avenue 
Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3E 3N4 
(Phone) 204-787-5082
(Fax) 204-787-4879 
(Email) ambermather@hotmail.com


Amber joined the MADRG as a research associate in May 2006 after completing her B.A. (Hons) in Psychology at the University of Winnipeg. She began her Masters in Clinical Psychology at the University of Manitoba in the fall of 2006 and is currently supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. Her research interests include anxiety disorders (particularly social phobia and post-traumatic stress disorder) and the psychological correlates of obesity.


PUBLICATIONS:

 

Mather, A. A., Cox, B. J., Enns, M. W., & Sareen, J. (revise and resubmit). Associations between body weight and personality disorders in a representative US sample. Psychosomatic Medicine.

 

Mather, A. A., Cox, B. J., Enns, M. W., & Sareen, J. (revise and resubmit). Associations of obesity with psychiatric disorders and suicidal behaviors in a nationally representative sample. Journal of Psychosomatic Research.

 

Williams, D. A., Lawson, C., Cook, R., Mather, A. A., & Johns, K. W. (2008). Timed excitatory conditioning under zero and negative contingencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34(1), 94-105.

 

 

POSTERS/PRESENTATIONS:

 

Mather, A. A. & Sareen, J. (submitted). An examination of the prevalence, comorbidity, impairment, and treatment-seeking of social phobia in the Canadian military. Paper submitted to the 2008 annual meeting of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, Vancouver, BC.

                                   

Mather, A. A., Cox, B. J., Enns, M. W., & Sareen, J. (November 2007). Association between body weight and personality disorders in a nationally-representative sample. Paper presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, Montreal, QC.

 

Mather, A. A., Cox, B. J., Enns, M. W., & Sareen, J. (November 2007). Association between obesity and psychiatric disorders and suicidal behaviours in the Canadian population. In J. Bolton (symposium moderator), Anxiety and Mood Disorders in the Community. Paper presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, Montreal, QC.

 

Mather, A. A., Cox, B. J., Pagura, J., & Sareen, J. (June 2007). Association of comorbid anxiety disorders with depression-specific disability in a nationally-representative sample. Poster presented at the 2007 convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, ON.

 

Mather, A. A., Johns, K. W., & Williams, D. A. (June 2006). Overshadowing of timed conditioned responding. Poster presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Saskatoon, SK.