News and Events – July 2007
PUBLICATIONS
Edgin JO, Inder TE, Hood K, Clark CA, Woodward LJ (in press). Executive functioning in preschool children born very preterm: Relationship with early white matter pathology. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
Hughes RN (in press). Sex does matter: Comments on the prevalence of male-only investigations of drug effects on rodent behaviour. Behavioural Pharmacology.
Marchant J, McAuliffe MJ, Huckabee M-L (in press). Treatment of articulatory impairment in a child with spastic dysarthria associated with spastic cerebral palsy. Developmental Neurorehabilitation.
Moran C, Gillon G, Nippold M (2006). The influence of working memory on proverb comprehension in adolescents with traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 20, 417-423.
Norrie JM, Heitger MH, Leathem JM, Anderson TJ, Jones RD (2007). Mild traumatic brain injury and fatigue: preliminary findings from a longitudinal prospective study (Abstract). The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 21, 401.
CONFERENCES
Sebastian Doeltgen traveled to Darwin, Australia, to attend the Satellite meeting of the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) “Motor Control at the Top End”. He presented a poster and took part in the “Data Blitz Session” which followed the ‘2+2+2′ approach: 2 slides, 2 minutes talk, 2 minutes for questions. Sebastian reports that it was a very enjoyable meeting with many interesting presentations and motivating feedback.
Bronwen Kelly attended the Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society 9th Annual Scientific Meeting in Brisbane, Australia (26-28th July 2007). An abstract based on the presentation will be published in the Australia and New Zealand Journal of Surgery.
Guidera A, Kelly B, Rigby P, MacKinnon C, Armstrong J, Tan S (in press). Early feeding following resection and reconstruction of oral and oropharyngeal cancers (Abstract). Australia and New Zealand Journal of Surgery.
Members of the Canterbury Child Development Research Group attended the Australasian Human Development Association Conference in Sydney, where the following papers were presented:
Clark CAC, Knight J, Woodward LJ (2007). Executive function at early school age in children born very preterm. Australasian Human Development Association Conference, Sydney, July 2007.
Hood K, Knight J, Champion PR, Clark CAC, Woodward LJ (2007). Social competence of preschool children born very preterm. Australasian Human Development Association Conference, Sydney, July 2007.
Friesen M, Woodward LJ, Fergusson D, Horwood J (2007). Intergenerational changes in the context of early parenthood. Australasian Human Development Association Conference, Sydney, July 2007.
Woodward LJ, Chesney A, Fergusson D, Horwood J (2007). Childhood physical punishment exposure and later parenting risk. Australasian Human Development Association Conference, Sydney, July 2007.
Gray A, Moor S, Champion PR, Spencer C, Ormsby J, Woodward LJ (2007). Early parenting experiences of children born to opiate dependent mothers. Australasian Human Development Association Conference, Sydney, July 2007.
The following paper was presented at the 13th Scientific Meeting International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology in London:
Woodward LJ, Champion PR, Inder TE (2007). Neonatal cerebral abnormalities predict cognitive impairment in preterm children. 13th Scientific Meeting International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, London, June 2007.
PEOPLE AT VDVI
Valeria Lushkina commenced as Receptionist and Research Assistant.
Colin Woodhouse (BSc, Bip HE, RN) commenced as a Research Nurse.
Juliet Berkeley (MB ChB, FRACP) commenced as Senior Registrar with Tim Anderson.