News and Events – November 2009
PUBLICATIONS
Wilcke JC, O’Shea RP, Watts R (2009). Frontoparietal activity and its structural connectivity in binocular rivalry. Brain Research, 1305, 96-107.
Wu B, Butler A, Millane RP, Watts R, Bones PJ (in press). Cartesian sliding window methods for retrospective selection of acceleration factors for contrast enhance MR angiography. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
CONFERENCES
Norsila Abdul Wahab, Aamir Al-Toubi, Stefanie Bauer, Maggie-Lee Huckabee, Richard Jones, Phoebe Macrae, Margaret Monroe, and Oshrat Sella attended the Department of Communication Disorders Postgraduate Research Conference at the University of Canterbury on 12th November 2009. The following presentations were made:
Abdul Wahab N, Jones RD, Huckabee M-L ‘Changes in motor-evoked potentials of the submental muscles following olfactory and gustatory stimulations’
Al-Toubi A, Abu-Hijleh A, Huckabee M-L, Macrae P, Doeltgen S ‘The effects of repeated volitional swallowing and time on corticobulbar excitability’.
Bauer S, Huckabee M-L ‘The effects of exercises on suprahyoid muscles and hyoid movement during swallowing in healthy individuals: Investigation by ultrasound’.
Macrae P, Jones RD, Huckabee M-L ‘The effects of neuromuscular exercises on biomechanical and neural mechanisms of swallowing: Investigations by motor evoked potentials, ultrasound, and manometry’.
Monroe M, Huckabee M-L, Robb MP ‘Citric acid inhalation cough challenge: Establishing normative data’.
Sella O, Huckabee M-L, Jones RD, Watts R. ‘Skill versus strength training in swallowing rehabilitation’.
PEOPLE AT VDVI
The following Summer Students will be working at the Institute for 10 weeks over the summer:
William Ha is a medical student from the University of Otago, Christchurch will be undertaking a summer project supervised by Tim Anderson and Michael MacAskill. William is also intending to complete a Bachelor of Medical Science thesis at the Institute in 2010.
Ben Han a BE student from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury will be undertaking the project ‘Strength vs skill training in dysphagia rehabilitation: development of sEMG biofeedback software’ under the supervision of Maggie-Lee Huckabee and Richard Jones.
Jeremy Lane a BE(Hons) student from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury will be undertaking the project ‘Automated estimation of level of drowsiness from the EEG’ under the supervision of Richard Jones, Govinda Poudel, and Carrie Innes.
Agate Ponder-Sutton a student from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury will be undertaking the project ‘Prediction of driving ability in persons with brain disorders: Improving a non-linear predictive model’ under the supervision of Richard Jones and Carrie Innes.
