Post:	Senior Lecturer in Experimental Psychology
Location:	Pevensey 2
Email:	M.J.Morgan@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	7202
UK:	(01273) 877202
International:	+44 1273 877202

Biography

B.Sc (UCL, London), MSc. & Ph.D. (McGill, Canada)

Visiting Fellow, Addiction Research Center, National Insitute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, USA, 1989-1991
Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Wales Swansea, UK, 1991-2001
Senior Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, UK, 2001-present

Course Organiser: MSc in Substance Misuse
Assistant Editor for "Addiction"
External Examiner for the Liverpool John Moores University MSc in Drug Use and Addiction

Sussex University: Psychology Home Page

Research

My current research interests concern the long-term neuropsychological effects of MDMA ('Ecstasy').   I am also interested in the neural substrates of impulsive behaviour and dependence liability.

Teaching

MSc in Substance Misuse
Psychobiology of Addiction

Selected publications

2007

Impaired fear recognition in regular recreational cocaine users. (with Jessica Hall, Kemmis Laura and Kingston Richard) in Psychopharmacology Volume 194 pp. 151-160

International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4), Ecstasy/MDMA and Memory Symposium Meeting in Journal of Psychopharmacology Volume 21 pp. 895-897

2006

Elevated impulsivity and impaired decision-making in abstinent ecstasy (MDMA) users compared to polydrug and drug-naive controls. (with Alessandro Pirona, Impallomeni, L.C. and Rogers, R. D.) in Neuropsychopharmacology Volume 31 pp. 1562-1573

The sub-acute effects of recreational Ecstasy (MDMA) use: A controlled study in humans. (with Alessandro Pirona and Huxster, J.K.) in Journal of Psychopharmacology Volume 20 pp. 281-290

2005

Excessive alcohol consumption and dependence on amphetamine are associated with parallel increases in subjective ratings of both ‘wanting’ and ‘liking’ in Addiction Vol 100 (10):1487-1495, 2005

2004

Influence of nicotine gum on acute cravings for cigarettes. (with Davies, G.M., Willner, P. and James, D.L.) in Journal of Psychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology Volume 18 pp. 71-75 ISBN 0893-133X

2002

Ecstasy (MDMA): Are the psychological problems associated with its use reversed by prolonged abstinence? (with McFie, L., Fleetwood, L. H. and Robinson, J. A.) in Psychopharmacology Volume 159 pp. 294-303

`Throwing the baby out with the bathwater?¿ in Psychologist Volume 15 pp. 468-469

2000

Ecstasy (MDMA): A review of its possible persistent psychological effects. Psychopharmacology: Psychopharmacology Volume 152 pp. 230-248 ISBN 0033-3158