A5005265927- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Music Therapy and Health
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Sleep and related disorders
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Diet and metabolism studies
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Music and Audio Processing
- Neural dynamics and brain function
Austin Health
2016-2025
The University of Melbourne
2016-2025
Australian Psychological Society
2012-2025
Massey University
2021-2024
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
2024
Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
2013-2023
Austin Hospital
1999-2023
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
2021
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
2021
International League Against Epilepsy
2021
In order to address the major impact on quality of life and epilepsy management caused by associated neuropsychiatric conditions, an international consensus group epileptologists met with aim developing clear evidence-based practice-based statements provide guidance these conditions. Using a Delphi process, this prioritized list key areas. These included: depression, anxiety, psychotic disorders, nonepileptic seizures, cognitive dysfunction, antiepileptic drug (AED)–related neurobehavioral...
Epilepsy surgery is the treatment of choice for patients with drug-resistant seizures. A timely evaluation surgical candidacy can be life-saving who are identified as appropriate candidates, and may also enhance care nonsurgical candidates through improvement in diagnosis, optimization therapy, comorbidities. Yet, referral evaluations often delayed while palliative options pursued, significant adverse consequences due to increased morbidity mortality associated intractable epilepsy. The...
The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Diagnostic Methods Commission charged the Neuropsychology Task Force with job of developing a set recommendations to address following questions: (1) What is role neuropsychological assessment? (2) Who should do (3) When people epilepsy be referred for and (4) expected from have been broadly written health care clinicians in established settings as well those setting up new services. They are based on detailed survey assessment practices...
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Summary: Purpose: Mood disturbance is a common comorbid condition of temporal lobe epilepsy before and after seizure surgery. Few studies have examined mood in patients undergoing resections outside the (extratemporal resections). This study aimed to compare early, postoperative evolution extratemporal examine effect site surgical resection on outcome. Methods: The used longitudinal design was qualitative nature. Sixty surgery (43 resections, 17 resections) were assessed at discharge, 1...
We investigated whether statistical practices in psychology have been changing since 1998. Early this period, the American Psychological Association (APA) Task Force on Statistical Inference (TFSI; Wilkinson & TFSI, 1999) advocated improved practices, including reporting effect sizes and confidence intervals (CIs). The APA (2001) Publication Manual included expanded advice stated that CIs are ‘‘in general, best strategy’’ (p. 22). Any changes 1998 may, of course, had many causes other than...
There is considerable interest in the potential non‐musical cognitive and academic benefits of music listening instruction to children. This report describes three lines research relevant this issue, namely, effects of: (1) focused on subsequent task performance (the Mozart effect); (2) instruction; (3) background listening. Research suggests that while effect studies have attracted media attention, cannot be reliably demonstrated In contrast, confers consistent for spatiotemporal reasoning...
The natural variability of pitch naming ability in the population (known as absolute or AP) provides an ideal method for investigating individual differences processing and auditory knowledge formation representation. We have demonstrated involvement different cognitive processes AP that reflects varying skill expertise presence similar early age onset music tuition. These were related to regions brain activity, including those involved working memory (right prefrontal cortex) long-term...
Purpose: Both neurobiologic and psychosocial factors have been proposed to account for the high prevalence of depression surrounding epilepsy surgery. Using a prospective longitudinal approach, this study aimed profile evolution after surgery at multiple time points, including early longer-term follow-up. We also sought identify predictors before surgery, whether patients undergoing mesial temporal lobe resection (MTR) were greater risk than nonmesial (NMTR). Methods: Sixty (38 MTR, 22 NMTR)...
The cognitive mechanisms underpinning chronic tinnitus (phantom auditory perceptions) are underexplored but may reflect a failure to switch attention away from sound. Here, we investigated range of components that influence the ability attention, including control, inhibition, working memory and mood, on presence severity tinnitus. Our participants with showed significant impairments in control inhibition as well lower levels emotional wellbeing, compared healthy-hearing participants....
To date, no consensus exists in the literature as to theories of consonance and dissonance. Experimental data collected over last century have raised questions about dominant that are based on frequency relationships between harmonics music chords. This study provides experimental evidence strongly challenges these suggests a new theory dissonance pitch perception recognition. Experiment 1 shows does not increase with increasing numbers chords predicted by Helmholtz's (1863/1954) roughness...
Music performance anxiety (MPA) can be distressing for many young people studying music, and may negatively impact upon their ability to cope with the demands stressors of music education. It also lead give up or develop unhealthy coping habits in adult careers. Minimal research has examined effectiveness psychological programs address MPA musicians. Sixty-two adolescents were pseudo-randomised a cognitive behavioural (CB) group-delivered intervention waitlist condition. The consisted...
In our first paper in this series (Epilepsia 2015; 56(5): 674-681), we published recommendations for the indications and expectations neuropsychological assessment routine epilepsy care. This partner provides a comprehensive overview of more specialist role pre postoperative evaluation surgery patients. The is two parts. part presents framework mandatory neuropsychologists presurgical candidates. A preoperative should be comprised standardised measures cognitive function addition to wider...