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