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Research has found significant impairment in memory and other cognitive functions in Cantabrians who experienced disruption and loss because of the 2011 earthquakes. (File photo)
A Christchurch researcher has received more than $200,000 to fund a research project studying the ongoing impact of “‘quake brain” on people’s memory and other cognitive functions a decade after the Canterbury earthquakes.
The Canterbury Medical Research Foundation (CMRF) has provided $213,000 in funding to Dr Katie Douglas, who will lead the two-year research project.
Douglas, a registered clinical psychologist and senior research fellow at the University of Otago in Christchurch, says the research will build on evidence of “quake brain” already gathered by the university’s psychological research team.