News and Events – May 2008
PUBLICATIONS
McLellan T, Johnston L, Dalrymple-Alford J, Porter P. (in press). The recognition of facial expressions of emotion in Alzheimer’s disease: A review of findings. Acta Neuropsychiatrica.
Chappell MH, Brown JA, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Uluğ AM, Watts R. (in press). Multivariate analysis of DTI data improves the detection of microstructural damage in young professional boxers. Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
CONFERENCES
John Dalrymple-Alford and Elena Loukavenko (Moran, E) were invited to give presentations at the University of Otago Brain Health & Repair Research Centre 2nd Annual Conference on 6th June 2008, Dunedin. The following presentations were made:
Dalrymple-Alford JC. The case for enriched cognitive experience to treat early Alzheimer’s disease.
Moran E, Wolff M, Dalrymple-Alford JC. Enrichment and Cerebrolysin – impact on recovery after anterior thalamic lesions.
GRANTS
John Dalrymple-Alford and colleagues (Cliff Abraham and Neil McNaughton, at University of Otago; and colleagues in Britain, France, Greece and the US) were invited recently to submit a full proposal to the HRC for the “International Investment Opportunities Fund” for the project “Rescuing memory loss after brain injury.”