October 31st, 2010 by carrie
PUBLICATIONS
MacAskill, M. R., Koga, K., & Anderson, T. J. (in press). Japanese street performer mimes violation of Hering’s Law. Neurology.
CONFERENCES
Tim Anderson and Charlotte Graham attended the 2nd World Parkinson Congress in Glasgow, Scotland, 28 Sept – 1 Oct. Charlotte presented the following paper:
Graham C, MacAskill MR, Dalrymple-Alford J, Livingston L, Pitcher T, Anderson TJ (2010). Memory-guided saccades, cognitive status, and dementia in Parkinson’s Disease. Movement Disorders, 25, S3: S691.
AWARDS
Hannah Farr won the Templin Prize for the best written technical report awarded by the Canterbury Branch of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) for her entry ‘Creative Writing in Engineering – A Pilot Study’.
PEOPLE AT VDVI
Ben Han (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) will be undertaking a 10 week University of Canterbury Summer Studentship project based at the Institute and supervised by Maggie-Lee Huckabee, Richard Jones, and Paul Gaynor. The project is titled ‘An electrical-impedance biofeedback instrument for swallowing rehabilitation’.
Shuang-Xiu Chuang (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) will be undertaking a 10 week University of Canterbury Summer Studentship project based at the Institute and supervised by Richard Jones, Govinda Poudel, Carrie Innes, and Phil Bones. The project is titled ‘Measurement and characteristics of video-based eye- closure: A critical marker in the detection of microsleeps’.
November 30th, 2009 by carrie
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.
August 14th, 2008 by michael
The University of Otago and the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation combine annually for a Health Research Open Day
The public is welcome to come along to the medical school building (on the corner of Riccarton Ave/Oxford Tce, parking available in the blue Christchurch Hospital parking building on Antigua St). There are research displays in the foyer, public lectures and a chance to see inside Mobile Medical Technology’s large surgical bus, the only mobile surgery in NZ.
There are also tours tours to laboratories and research facilities. This includes the fascinating (and at times, gruesome) Pathology Museum and a chance to see the world-leading Cardioendocrine lab.
The Van der Veer Institute is also taking part, and people can tour our eye movement and swallowing labs and the MR brain imaging facilities.
August 5th, 2008 by daniel
The Van der Veer Institute’s was featured in the first episode of the Canterbury Medical Research Foundations series “The Body, The Research, The Professor”. Interviews were conducted with Tim Anderson, Richard Jones, Carrie Innes, and Maggie-Lee Huckabee.
Download Episode One Directly or watch using the embedded flash player:
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