Effect Of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy On First Episode Psychosis
Dr Ciaran Corcoran is a full-time consultant psychiatrist working in rehabilitation psychiatry in Longford, Westmeath. He graduated from University College Galway in 1995 and after the Mater/University College Dublin scheme in psychiatry completed his higher training in North East of England . He has been a consultant in St Loman’s Hospital since 2008. Following 6 months as a registrar in forensic psychiatry in the Central Mental Hospital, Dublin, he completed a combined clinical and research post with Dr Veronica O’Keane (and subsequently Professor Kieran Murphy) in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. His research work involved examining the efficacy of a new device, a vagus nerve stimulator, in treatment resistant depression, as well as a series of neuroendocrine studies. Ciaran also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Therapy. His research gave him an interest in resistant mood disorders and he then went on to work in the affective disorders service in Newcastle, which cares for patients with severe resistant chronic depression, bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder.
