News and Events – June 2009
CONFERENCES
Tim Anderson was an invited lecturer at the 13th International Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Paris, 7 – 11 June 2009. Tim’s lecture was titled ‘Eye movement abnormalities in neurodegenerative disease’. Tim also presented two posters:
Graham C, MacAskill MR, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Livingston L, Anderson TJ. Influence of cognitive status and dementia in Parkinson’s disease on latency of reflexive eye movements.
Melzer TR, Watts R, MacAskill MR, Shankaranarayanan A, Alsop DC, Keenan R, Graham C, Livingstone L, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Anderson TJ. Arterial spin labelling (ASL) perfusion with statistical parametric mapping in Parkinson’s disease.
Myron Friesen and Alison Gray (Canterbury Child Development Research Group) attended the 14th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 17–20th June in Seattle, USA. The conference presentations predominantly reported recent advances in research on depression and ADHD. The following posters were presented:
Friesen M, Woodward L, Horwood J, Fergusson D. Childhood exposure to sexual abuse and partnership outcomes at age 30’.
Gray AC, Knight, J, Jones R, Buker S, Spencer C, Pritchard VE, Woodward LJ, Moor S. Early social communication and development of toddlers exposed to methadone in pregnancy.
Petra Hoggarth and Carrie Innes attended the 5th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design, June 22-25, 2009 at Big Sky Resort, Big Sky, Montana, USA. The following papers were presented:
Hoggarth PA, Jones RD, Innes CRH, Dalrymple-Alford JC. Driving assessment and subsequent driving outcome: A prospective study of safe and unsafe driver groups.
Innes CRH, Jones RD, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Severinsen J, and Gray J. Prediction of driving ability in people with dementia- and non-dementia-related brain disorders.
Norsila Abdul Wahab, Alison Gray, Frauke Heck, Kelly Hood, Maggie-Lee Huckabee, Phoebe Macrae, Margaret Monroe, Govinda Poudel, Verena Pritchard, Oshrat Sella, Steffi Wild, and Sarah Wright presented posters at the Canterbury Health Research Poster Expo held June 24th in the NZi3 building UoC. The following posters were presented:
Abdul Wahab N, Huckabee M-L, Jones RD. The effect of olfaction and gustation on motor-evoked potentials from floor of mouth muscles.
Gray AC, Knight J, Jones R, Buker S, Spencer C, Pritchard VE, Woodward LJ, Moor S. Early social communication and development of toddlers exposed to methadone in pregnancy.
Hood K, Champion P, Woodward LJ. Clinical and socio-environmental predictors of social competence problems amongst preschool children born very preterm’.
Macrae P, Huckabee M-L, Jones RD. Intra- and inter-rater reliability of hyoid displacement as measured by ultrasound’.
Monroe M, Huckabee M-L, Robb M. Citric Acid Inhalation Cough Challenge – Establishing Normative Data”
Poudel GR, Jones RD, Innes CRH, Bones PJ. Functional-MRI correlates of cued slow-eye-closure and task non-responsiveness during visuomotor tracking.
Pritchard VE, Clark AC, Champion P, Liberty K, Wilson K, Woodward LJ. School-based outcomes of children born very preterm at age 6 years.
Roets R, Huckabee M-L. Measuring activity of the muscles of the throat during swallowing.
Sella O, Jones RD, Watts R, Huckabee M-L. Skill vs. strength training in swallowing rehabilitation.
Wild S, Huckabee M-L, Macrae P. Systematic influence of measurement practices on manometric measurement.
Wright S, MacAskill MR, Watts R, Melzer TR, Keenan R, Shankaranarayanan A, Alsop DC, Deavoll B, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Anderson TJ. Cerebral blood flow perfusion patterns in Alzheimer’s disease using MRI arterial spin labelling: an initial study.
GRANTS
Megan McAuliffe and Tim Anderson were successful in obtaining an Emerging Researcher Grant of $149,924 over 3 years from the Health Research Council of NZ for their project ‘Factors influencing older listeners’ comprehension of dysarthric speech’.
AWARDS
Petra Hoggarth was one of three students to receive a Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award and US$750 prize at the 5th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design in Big Sky, Montana for her paper ‘Driving assessment and subsequent driving outcome: A prospective study of safe and unsafe driver groups’.
Sarah Wright won Best Poster at the Canterbury Health Research Society Poster Expo at NZi3, University of Canterbury for her poster titled ‘Cerebral blood flow perfusion patterns in Alzheimer’s disease using MRI arterial spin labelling: an initial study.’
APPOINTMENTS
Tim Anderson has been elected Secretary of the Asia Oceania Section of the Movement Disorders Society (AOS-MDS).
Richard Jones has been appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury.