Dr. Elayne Ahern

Biography

Dr. Elayne Ahern is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Limerick. Her primary research area adopts a neuropsychological lens to investigate the conceptualisation, treatment, and recovery outcomes for mood disorders, with a particular focus on major depression. Having recently completed her interfaculty Ph.D. in psychology with health economics at the University of Limerick (December 2020), funded under the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme, Elayne's research efforts continue to be directed towards strategies to maximise health outcomes for the costs associated with mental health conditions. This has resulted in work into novel, psychological treatment approaches, incorporating complementary perspectives of neuro- and/or social- psychology to optimise functional recovery. She holds visiting researcher status at Dr. Dominic Trépel's health economics lab at the Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, assisting with review projects on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of neurorehabilitation for acquired brain injury. Elayne is a member of the GroWTH lab in the Department of Psychology, where she works in collaboration with Professor Orla Muldoon and her team on the ERC-funded project awarded to Professor Muldoon on social identity and trauma.