News and Events – February 2009
PUBLICATIONS
Doeltgen SH, Ridding MC, O’Beirne GA, Dalrymple-Alford J, Huckabee ML (2009). Test-retest reliability of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) at the submental muscle group during volitional swallowing. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 178: 134–137.
Lopez J, Wolff M, Lecourtier L, Cosquer B, Bontempi B, Dalrymple-Alford J, Cassel J-C (in press). The intralaminar thalamic nuclei contribute to remote spatial memory. Journal of Neuroscience.
McKinlay A, Grace RC, Kaller CP, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Anderson TJ, Fink J, Roger D (in press). Planning deficits in Parkinson’s disease: A comparison of two tower tasks. Applied Neuropsychology.
Melzer TR, Cook NJ, Butler AP, Watts R, Anderson N, Tipples R, Butler PH (2008). Spectroscopic biomedical imaging with the Medipix2 detector. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 31(4), 300-306.
Pritchard VE, Clark CAC, Champion PR, Liberty K, Wilson K, Woodward LJ (in press). Early school-based learning difficulties in children born very preterm. Early Human Development.
Treyvaud K, Anderson VA, Howard K, Bear M, Hunt RW, Doyle LW, Inder TE, Woodward LJ, Anderson PJ (2009). Parenting behaviour is associated with the early neurobehavioral development of very preterm children. Pediatrics, 123(2), 555-61.
Woodward LJ, Moor S, Hood K, Champion PR, Inder TE, Foster-Cohen S, Austin N (in press). Very preterm children show impairments across multiple neurodevelopmental domains by age 4 years. Archives of Diseases in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition.
Bones P, Wu B, Millane R P, Watts R. (2008). Towards better temporal resolution in magnetic resonance angiography [Abstract]. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 31(4), 532-533.
Heitger MH, Jones RD, Macleod AD, Snell D, Wilson I, Anderson TJ. (2008). A novel biomarker of postconcussion syndrome [Abstract]. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 31(4), 486-487.
Innes CRH, Jones RD, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Severinsen J, Gray J. (2008). Prediction of driving ability in people with dementia- and non-dementia-related brain disorders is more accurate when based upon different models of sensory-motor and cognitive performance [Abstract]. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 31(4), 431-432.
Melzer TR, Butler AP, Cook NJ, Watts R, Anderson N, Tipples R, Butler PH. (2008). Feasibility of spectroscopic biomedical imaging with Medipix2 [Abstract]. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 31(4), 442.
Myall D, MacAskill M, Davidson P, Anderson T, Jones RD. (2008). A modular low-latency virtual-environment platform for applications in motor adaptation research, neurological disorders, and neurorehabilitation [Abstract]. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 31(4), 359.
Myall D, MacAskill M, Anderson T, Jones RD. (2008). Submovements in reaching tasks: the effect of Parkinson’s disease [Abstract]. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 31(4), 372-373.
Poudel GR, Jones RD, Innes CRH, Davidson PR, Watts R, Signal TL, Bones P. (2008). Increased multisensory activity during cued slow-eye-closure while performing a visuomotor tracking task: an fMRI study [Abstract]. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 31(4), 488-489.
Poudel GR, Jones RD, Innes CRH. (2008). A 2-D pursuit tracking task for behavioural detection of lapses [Abstract]. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 31(4), 528-529.
CONFERENCES
Tim Anderson attended the combined 2nd Asian and Oceanian Parkinson’s Diease and Movement Disorders Congress (AOPMC 2009) and 7th Asia Pacific Parkinson Association (APPA) conference, 15-17 February in New Delhi, India. He presented the following papers:
Anderson T. Parkinson’s disease – a caregivers perspective.
Anderson T. Update on PSP (Progressive supranuclear palsy).
Carrie Clark, Petra Hoggarth, Verena Pritchard, and Lianne Woodward attended the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in Atlanta Georgia, USA, February 11-14. The following papers were presented (abstracts available from
http://medicine.osu.edu/sitetool/sites/pdfs/inspublic/final_program_linked_abstracts.pdf):
Clark CAC, Woodward LJ (2009). Verbal and visuo-spatial working memory in children born very preterm at age 6 years (Poster). Proceedings of 37th Annual Meeting of International Neuropsychological Society, Atlanta 37, 132
Hoggarth P, Innes C, Dalrymple-Alford J, Jones R (2009). A nonlinear model of cognitive and sensory-motor test performance can aid in prediction of on-road driving ability in older adults (Abstract). Proceedings of 37th Annual Meeting of International Neuropsychological Society, Atlanta 37, 228
Pritchard VE, Hood KM, Anderson PJ, Woodward LJ (2009). Cerebral abnormalities on neonatal MRI and later inhibitory and switching abilities in preschool children born very preterm (Invited symposium presentation). Proceedings of 37th Annual Meeting of International Neuropsychological Society, Atlanta 37, 105
Woodward LJ, Clark CAC, Inder T (2009). Neonatal white matter abnormalities predict neurocognitive outcome in children born very preterm (Invited symposium presentation). Proceedings of 37th Annual Meeting of International Neuropsychological Society, Atlanta 37, 127
PEOPLE AT VDVI
Russell Buckley is undertaking a part-time Master of Arts degree under the supervision of Richard Jones, John Dalrymple-Alford, Carrie Innes, and Deak Helton. Russell is planning a number of studies to investigate behavioural and psychological characteristics of lapses of responsiveness.
Julia Corbett is undertaking a Bachelor of Speech and Language Therapy honours project under the supervision of Maggie-Lee Huckabee. Julia’s research will continue on from the project she undertook as a summer student, titled ‘Transcranial magnetic stimulation induced motor evoked potentials from the submental muscle group in young adults with spastic and dystonic cerebral palsy and age and gender matched controls’.
Frauke Heck is undertaking a Master of Clinical Linguistics at the University of Bielefeld in Germany but will be completing her research requirement at the Van der Veer Institute under the supervision of Maggie-Lee Huckabee. Frauke’s intended research project is ‘Immediate and longer-term effects of submental neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) on pharyngeal pressure generation in healthy individuals’ (Investigators: Maggie-Lee Huckabee, Sebastian Doeltgen, and Frauke Heck).
Margaret Monroe is completing a one-year Master of Speech and Language Therapy degree under the supervision of Maggie-Lee Huckabee. Margaret is planning to study cough reflex testing as a measure of vagal nerve integrity and identification of aspiration in dysphagia.
Steffi Wild has come from Germany to be a research assistant in Maggie-Lee Huckabee’s Swallowing Lab for four months. Steffi will be doing data re-analysis to evaluate pharyngeal manometry waveforms.