News and Events – December 2009 & January 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Choo AL, Robb MP, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Huckabee M-L, O’Beirne GA (in press). Different lip asymmetry in adults who stutter: Electromyographic evidence during speech and non-speech. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica.
Doeltgen SH, Dalrymple-Alford J, Ridding MC, Huckabee M-L (in press). Differential effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation parameters on submental motor evoked potentials. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.
Koenig ST, Crucian GP, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Dünser A. (2009). Virtual reality rehabilitation of spatial abilities after brain damage. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 2009;144:105-7.
McKinlay A, Grace RC, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Roger D (in press). Characteristics of executive function impairment in Parkinson’s disease patients without dementia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
McKinlay A, Grace RC, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Roger D (2009). Cognitive characteristics associated with mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 28: 121-129.
McLellan T, Johnston L, Dalrymple-Alford J, Porter R (in press). Sensitivity to genuine versus posed emotion specified in facial displays. Cognition & Emotion.
CONFERENCES
Tim Anderson attended the South Island Movement Disorders Meeting – Focus on Parkinsonism on the 4th December 2009 at Clearwater, Christchurch. Tim presented the following papers:
Anderson, TA ‘Management of early Parkinson’s disease’
Anderson, TA ‘Non-motor manifestations of Parkinson’s disease’
Anderson, TA ‘The atypical Parkinsonian disorders’
GRANTS
John Dalrymple-Alford, Tim Anderson, Richard Watts, Ben Harrison, Tim Wilkinson, Richard Porter, and Leslie Livingston successfully obtained $126,587 funding for the project ‘Combating dementia with cognitive enrichment’ from Lottery Health Research. The 2009/2010 round was a particularly competitive one, with $3,186,696 (16%) available from a requested $19,798,753. The funds provided are for research assistance, MRI scans, participant travel and consumables.
PEOPLE AT VDVI
Yassar Alamri, Tessa Cowley, Simon Feng, and William Ha are medical students from the University of Otago, Christchurch who will be taking a year out from their medical degrees to complete Bachelor of Medical Science projects supervised by Tim Anderson and Michael MacAskill.
Yassar will be examining the ability of blackcurrant metabolites to enter the cerebrospinal fluid.
Tessa will working with head injury patients in the Emergency Dept to characterise their headache and dizziness symptoms.
Simon will be undertaking an eye movement/imaging project in Parkinson’s.
William will be using fMRI and other technologies to understand how some people with PD can voluntarily suppress their tremor.
