Clinical Neuropsychology

The Department's research in Clinical Neuropsychology is supported by
national and international competitive grants, and occurs in
collaboration with a number of extra-departmental institutes and
hospitals. A major part of the research program is aimed at
understanding the neuropsychological aspects of brain disorders such
as the focal epilepsies, the dementias, traumatic brain injury,
alcohol-related brain damage, attentional and hyperactivity
syndromes, the effects of systemic diseases such as diabetes on brain
function, and reading disorders.

Approaches include functional neuroimaging, structuro-functional
correlation, neurocognitive and neuroaffective outcomes of brain
disease, and psychosocial outcomes of neurosurgical treatment.
Special topics include plasticity and recovery of function after
brain damage, modelling the process of adjustment after treatment of
chronic neurological illness, modelling temporal specialisation in
memory, and mechanisms of selective attention. Research papers have
been published in journals such as Annals of Neurology, Behavioural
Neuroscience, Brain, Cortex, Epilepsia, Lancet, Hippocampus, Nature
Neuroscience, Neurocase, NeuroImage, Neurology, Neuropsychologia, and Stroke.

Areas of Expertise:

• behavioural effects of brain injury and disease
• effects of early brain damage on development
• Plasticity and recovery of function after brain damage
• language disorders
• temporal lobe epilepsy
• reading disorders
• attention disorders
• synaesthesia
• alcohol-related brain impairment
• memory disorders
• early detection of dementia

Research Staff:

David Andrewes, Vicki Anderson, Stephen Bowden, Michael Saling, Sarah Wilson