Darren Christensen

Darren R. Christensen received his PhD in psychology from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has previously worked at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and at the University of Melbourne examining the efficacy of contingency management as an adjunct treatment for substance use and gambling disorders. He has also worked for the Australian Gambling Research Centre developing harm minimization policies for the federal government. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and a board of governors research chair (tier II) at the University of Lethbridge. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Melbourne and a senior research fellow sponsored by the Alberta Gambling Research Institute. His research includes evaluations of the effectiveness of harm minimization measures, investigations of opioid antagonist dosing on gambling urge, agonist dosing on opioid withdrawal, and electroencephalography and neural imaging correlates of gambling urge and behavior.

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