A5022272219- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Glaucoma and retinal disorders
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome
- Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Congenital heart defects research
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Migraine and Headache Studies
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Speech and Audio Processing
Monash University
2016-2025
The Royal Melbourne Hospital
2011-2024
Alfred Health
2021-2024
Monash Health
2024
University of Iowa
2023
The University of Melbourne
2012-2022
The Alfred Hospital
2021-2022
Sapienza University of Rome
2022
University of Palermo
2022
University of Pavia
2022
The antisaccade task is a classic of oculomotor control that requires participants to inhibit saccade target and instead make voluntary the mirror opposite location. By comparison, prosaccade visually-guided target. These tasks have been studied extensively using behavioural oculomotor, electrophysiological neuroimaging in both non-human primates humans. In humans, under active investigation as potential endophenotype or biomarker for multiple psychiatric neurological disorders. A large...
Motor impairments have been found to be a significant clinical feature associated with autism and Asperger's disorder (AD) in addition core symptoms of communication social cognition deficits. deficits high-functioning (HFA) AD may differentiate these disorders, particularly respect the role cerebellum motor functioning. Current neuroimaging behavioral evidence suggests greater disruption HFA than AD. Investigations ocular functioning previously used populations assess integrity cerebellar...
Long term irreversible disability in multiple sclerosis (MS) is thought to be primarily driven by axonal degeneration. Axonal degeneration leads degenerative atrophy, therefore early markers of are required predict clinical and treatment efficacy. Given that additional pathologies such as inflammation, demyelination oedema also present MS, it essential develop not confounded these processes. The study investigated a novel method for measuring MS based on high angular resolution diffusion...
To determine whether visual perceptual measures in people who experience snow are consistent with an imbalance between inhibition and excitation cortex.Sixteen patients 18 controls participated. Four tasks were included: center-surround contrast matching, luminance increment detection noise, global form motion coherence thresholds. Neuronal architecture capable of encoding the stimuli is present within primary cortex, whereas extraction signals requires extrastriate processing. All these...
Abstract Background Eating disorders have one of the highest mortality all mental illnesses but are associated with low rates screening and early intervention. In addition, there remains considerable uncertainty regarding use current standardised tools in measuring eating pathology vegetarians vegans. With these groups presenting as potential at-risk for disordered development, present study aimed to develop preliminary validate a novel disorder tool, Vegetarian Vegan Disorder Screener...
Abstract Background Concussion is a common consequence of engaging in collision sports, with the often mild, transient nature symptoms posing considerable diagnostic and management challenge. This challenge vastly magnified for athletes competing at grassroots/non-professional levels, who lack field side access to medical expertise assessment player’s capacity continue playing or need further attention. The aim this pilot study was evaluate utility BrainEye application hardware (BrainEye...
Fragile X Mental Retardation 1 ( FMR1 ) premutation carriers (PM‐carriers) have a defective trinucleotide expansion on the gene that is associated with continuum of neuropsychological and mental disorders. Currently, little known about distinct subcomponents executive function potentially impaired in female PM‐carriers, there been no investigations into associations between incidences A total 35 PM‐carriers confirmed by Asuragen triple primed PCR DNA testing age‐ intelligence‐matched...
Objective: To characterise the psychiatric symptoms of visual snow syndrome (VSS), and determine their relationship to quality life severity symptoms. Methods: One hundred twenty-five patients with VSS completed a battery questionnaires assessing depression/anxiety, dissociative experiences (depersonalisation), sleep quality, fatigue, life, as well structured clinical interview about sensory Results: showed high rates anxiety depression, depersonalisation, poor sleep, which significantly...
Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD) is characterized by the re-emergence of perceptual symptoms experienced during acute hallucinogen intoxication following drug cessation. The underlying pathophysiology poorly understood. We report clinical characteristics and investigation findings a series HPPD cases with literature review previous case reports. draw parallels between features Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS).Retrospective 13 patients referred from neuro-ophthalmologists....
This study used oculomotor, cognitive, and multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures to assess for neurological abnormalities in current asymptomatic amateur Australian rules footballers (i.e., Australia's most participated collision sport) with a history of sports-related concussion (SRC). Participants were 15 male football players SRC greater than 6 months previously, sex-, age-, education-matched athlete control subjects that had no neurotrauma or participation sports....
<h3>BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:</h3> Perivascular spaces surround the blood vessels of brain and are involved in neuroimmune functions clearance metabolites via glymphatic system brain. Enlarged perivascular could be a marker dysfunction these processes and, therefore, highly relevant to monitoring disease activity MS. This study aimed compare number enlarged people with relapsing MS MR imaging markers inflammation atrophy. <h3>MATERIALS METHODS:</h3> Fifty-nine patients (18 clinically isolated...
Abstract Background The vegetarian vegan eating disorder screener (V-EDS) is an 18-item self-report screening tool designed to assess the unique elements of symptomology in vegetarians and vegans. Previous results have suggested strong initial psychometric properties non-clinical community samples present study sought identify a preliminary threshold cut-off score discriminate pathology self-reported clinical sample. Methods This involved secondary analysis using data collected McLean et al....
To compare white matter (WM) injuries associated with vision loss in multiple sclerosis (MS) and optic neuritis (ON).Twenty-three patients clinically definite relapsing-remitting MS chronic unilateral ON 14 neurologically healthy volunteers were monocularly tested Sloan 100%, 2.5%, 1.25% contrast visual acuity charts. Primary pathway whole-brain WM injury assessed optical coherence tomography (OCT) diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). OCT DTI correlates of high- low-contrast impairment identified...