News and Events – April 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Hoggarth PA, Innes CRH, Dalrymple-Alford JC, Severinsen JE, Jones RD (in press). Comparison of a linear and a non-linear model for using sensory-motor, cognitive, personality, and demographic data to predict driving ability in healthy older adults. Accident Analysis & Prevention.
Melzer T R, Watts R, MacAskill, M R, Pearson, J F, Keenan R, Shankaranarayanan A, Alsop D C, Graham C, Livingston L, Dalrymple-Alford J C, Anderson T J (in press). Characteristic arterial spin labeling MRI perfusion abnormalities in early, treatment-free Parkinson’s disease [Abstract]. New Zealand Medical Journal.
CONFERENCES
Tracy Melzer attended the Health Research Society of Canterbury meeting on 22nd April and presented the following paper:
Melzer T R, Watts R, MacAskill, M R, Pearson, J F, Keenan R, Shankaranarayanan A, Alsop D C, Graham C, Livingston L, Dalrymple-Alford J C, Anderson T J. ‘Characteristic arterial spin labeling MRI perfusion abnormalities in early, treatment-free Parkinson’s disease’.
EVENTS
Members from the Rotary Club of West Christchurch visited the Institute on the 28th April. Tim Anderson, Maggie-Lee Huckabee, Richard Watts, John Dalrymple-Alford, and Richard Jones gave short presentations on their respective research interests. The talks were followed by a visit to the MRI scanner with Richard Watts and tours of the Institute’s laboratories by representatives from the Eye Movement, Swallowing, and Neurotech research groups.
