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...

 

Attachment security and alexithymia in a heavy drinking sample (with F.A. Thorberg, Ross McD. Young, Karen A. Sullivan, Cameron Hurst, J. P. Connor, and G. F.X. Feeney), Addiction Research and Theory (2011)

Attachment difficulties have been proposed as a key risk factor for the development of alexithymia,...

 

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...

 

Risky alcohol use and age at onset of regular alcohol consumption in relation to frontal lobe indices, reward sensitivity and rash impulsiveness (with Helen Duff and Penelope Hasking), Addiction Research and Theory (2011)

Excessive alcohol consumption has been linked to predisposing traits that may reflect frontal lobe functioning,...

 

The relationship between coping strategies, alcohol expectancies, drinking motives and drinking behaviour (with Penelope Hasking and Cassandra Carlopio), Addictive Behaviors (2011)

Numerous models have been proposed in an attempt to explain both alcohol use and alcohol...

 

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