BA(summa cum laude) 

MA 

PhD (UCLA) 

Dr. Lyvers has taught psychology courses at UCLA, California State University Northridge,
and the University of Maryland European Division. His doctoral dissertation concerned the
autonomic and cognitive effects of acute alcohol intoxication in social drinkers. After
receiving a grant from the American Cancer Society, he conducted postdoctoral research at
UCLA on the psychophysiological correlates of cigarette smoking and nicotine withdrawal.
He continued to study the central nervous system effects of smoking during a two-year
research fellowship at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan, sponsored by the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Dr. Lyvers joined the faculty of the
Department of Psychology at Bond University in 1995. 

Dr. Lyvers' published work includes papers on the psychophysiological and
neuropsychological correlates of nicotine dependence and alcohol intoxication, theory of
drug dependence and alcoholism, and the mind-body problem. Dr. Lyvers is also an avid
surfer, caver, volcano climber and adventure traveller; many of his photos of volcanoes
are posted on NASA's Volcano World website (http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/).

Articles

Alexithymia in relation to parental alcoholism, everyday frontal lobe functioning and alcohol consumption in a non-clinical sample (with Roy Onuoha, Fred Arne Thorberg, and Christina Samios), Addictive behaviors (2012)

Background: Recent studies have indicated that 45–67% of those in treatment for alcohol use disorders...

 

Alexithymia in alcohol dependent patients is partially mediated by alcohol expectancy (with Fred Arne Thorberg, Ross McD Young, Karen A. Sullivan, Cameron P. Hurst, Jason P. Connor, and Gerald F. X. Feeney), Drug and alcohol dependence (2011)

Background
Up to fifty percent of alcohol dependent individuals have alexithymia, a personality trait characterised by...

 

Alexithymia, craving and attachment in a heavy drinking population (with Fred Arne Thorberg, Ross McD Young, Karen A. Sullivan, Jason P. Connor, and Gerald F. X. Feeney), Addictive behaviors (2011)

Up to fifty per cent of individuals with Alcohol use disorders (AUD) also have alexithymia...

 

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Effects of acute alcohol consumption on executive cognitive functioning in naturalistic settings (with Juliette Tobias-Webb), Addictive behaviors (2010)

Laboratory studies have demonstrated that acute alcohol intoxication can disrupt performance on neuropsychological tests of...

 

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Drinking motives, drinking restraint and drinking behaviour among young adults (with Penelope Hasking, Riana Hani, Madolyn Rhodes, and Emily Trew), Addictive behaviors (2010)

Motives to drink alcohol are widely thought to be the proximal cognitive factors involved in...

 

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