News and Events – August 2009
AWARDS
Petra Hoggarth was a finalist in the McDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year Awards with her project ‘Older Drivers: Keeping the Car Keys’. Petra was awarded the runner-up prize in the ‘Science and our Society’ category at a gala dinner in Auckland.
In the brief video below, Petra describes her research:
CONFERENCES
John Dalrymple-Alford, Vineetha Chirackal, Charlotte Graham, Leslie Livingston, Tracy Melzer, and Toni Pitcher attended the 27th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research in Queenstown (29 August – 2 September). The following papers were presented:
Graham C, MacAskill M R, Dalrymple-Alford J C, Livingston L, Anderson T J (2009). Influence of cognition in Parkinson’s disease on eye movements. Proceedings of the 27th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research, 27, abstract #4.7
Pitcher TL, MacAskill MR, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Livingston L, Melzer TR, Watts R, Anderson TJ (2009). MRI volumetric analysis of the putamen and caudate nucleus in Parkinson’s disease. Proceedings of the 27th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research, 27, abstract #4.34
Chirackal VV, Livingston L, Graham CF, Melzer TR, Crucian GP, MacAskill MR, Watts R, Anderson TJ, Dalrymple-Alford JC (2009). Instrumental activities of daily living in cognitively impaired and unimpaired Parkinson’s disease patients. Proceedings of the 27th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research, 27, abstract #8.4
Livingston L, Graham CF, Melzer TR, Crucian GP, MacAskill MR, Watts R, Anderson TJ, Dalrymple-Alford JC (2009). Characterizing mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease. Proceedings of the 27th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research, 27, abstract #4.35.
Melzer TR, Watts R, MacAskill, MR, Keenan R, Shankaranarayanan A, Alsop DC, Graham C, Livingston L, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Anderson TJ (2009). Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging of the posterior cingulate in Parkinson’s disease. Proceedings of the 27th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research, 27, abstract #8.5