Skye McDonald
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Professor of Neuropsychology at University of NSW, Director of Moving Ahead, Centre of Research Excellence in Brain Recovery
Joined February 2013
@Pain_NeuRa @neuraustralia I agree James. Congratulations to NeuRA's Sylvia Gustin ($2.5 million grant from NSW Health) and Jane Butler ($1.5 million grant) for their exciting projects in spinal cord research. So WHY are these women excluded from the photo?@neurastralia
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RT @_JLHazelton: We constantly engage in mental simulation, but why is this ability important? @NikkiAnneWilson takes us to the beach at th…
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RT @AS4SANinc: Cool image Taryn Henry speaking on a task to measure volatility in social decision making #AS4SAN2019 @Uni_Newcastle @UON_re…
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Great work reporting on social cognition measures across the world
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#assbi2018 Structural MRI can be very informative along with clinical presentation in variants of frontotemporal damage
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#assbi2018 Olivier Piguet - warns that fMRI always compares activity during a task to a baseline. A 'liberal' test between the two can suggest 'specific' structures are activated when they are not. Even in dead salmon.
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Not all neuroimaging is good. Olivier Piguet cautions over-reliance on costly scans
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Not all neuroimaging is good. Olivier Piguet cautions over-reliance on costly scans
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#assbi2018 Penny Cropper - PEERS an interactive assessment of important domains of social skills in kids with australian norms. Sensitive to socioemotional problems in ASD.
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#assbi2018 Alice Theadom reports that 4 years after a mild TBI some people continue to experience difficulties affecting cognition, employment and participation.
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Stephanie Wong @Sydney_Uni shows that poor memory makes people with Alz Disease vulnerable to financial exploitation. @movingahead_CRE
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Travis Wearne @ UNSW shows that feeling emotions is uniquely linked to being able to recognise them in others. @movingahead_CRE @AS4SAN2017
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Prof Shihui Han reports that people have a greater empathic brain response to people of the same race as themselves #as4san #movingahead_cre
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#movingahead_cre Understanding sarcasm requires the temporal pole and orbitofrontal cortex according to research by fiona kumfor
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#movingahead Research from UTas shows that even when intoxicated, people can inhibit social gafs if advised to
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Tessa Hart gives an eloquent overview of treating anger after TBI and the challenges of treatment research #assbi2017
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Douglas highlights how complex chatting over a cuppa can be. Many skills can be impaired in brain injury leading to loneliness #assbi2017
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McKay reports that agitation in PTA does not impact on duration of therapy that can be tolerated. #assbi2017
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