Crystal Meehan

Dr. Crystal Meehan is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Tasmania's School of Psychological Sciences. She specializes in neurodevelopmental impacts of immune activation and occupational mental health in veterinary professions. Her research employs rodent models to investigate maternal immune activation effects on neurodevelopment and schizophrenia-related behaviors, complemented by applied studies on workplace stressors in animal care professions.

Research programs focus on:

• Prenatal immune programming of neuropsychiatric disorders
• Veterinary mental health and resilience frameworks
• Neurobiological mechanisms in schizophrenia models

Publication themes include translational studies of sensory processing deficits and occupational stress taxonomies.

Dr. Meehan has supervised doctoral research on veterinary mental health and contributes to the university's research community through her work in behavioral neuroscience and occupational psychology.