University of New South Wales - School of Psychology

Professor & Director Masters (Clinical) Psychology Program

Research Areas: Investigation of the nature of cognitive, affective and other psychological disorders following brain injury in adulthood including acquired impairments of emotion, behaviour, language, memory and learning and executive functions. Issues related to neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation. Evidence based practice. Theoretical accounts of social cognition, emotion and communication processes in normal and brain-injured adults.

Academic Career:

BSc (Hons), 1979, Monash University
MSc (Clinical Neuropsychology), 1982, University of Melbourne
PhD, 1992, Macquarie University

Selected Publications:

McDonald, Skye, Tate, Robyn, Togher, Leanne, Perdices, Michael, Mosely, Anne, Winders, Kiri, Shultz, Regina, Smith, Kate. (2006) Improving evidence-based practice in neuropsychological rehabilitation: Introducing PsycBITE^TM. Aphasiology, 20, 676-683.
Saunders, C., McDonald, S. & Richardson, R. (2006) Loss of emotional experience after traumatic brain injury? Findings with the startle probe procedure. Neuropsychology, 20, 224-231.
Bibby, H. & McDonald, S. (2005) Theory of Mind after traumatic brain injury Neuropsychologia, 43, 99-114. (Advertised by the journal as its 7th most read article in Jan-June 2005).
McDonald, S., Saunders, C. (2005) Differential impairment in recognition of emotion from still, dynamic and multi-modal displays in people with severe TBI. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11, 392-399.
McDonald, S., & Flanagan, S. (2004) Social perception deficits after Traumatic Brain Injury: The interaction between emotion recognition, mentalising ability and social communication. Neuropsychology 18, 572-579.
Martin, I., and McDonald, S. (2003) Weak coherence, no theory of mind, or executive dysfunction? Solving the Puzzle of Pragmatic Language Disorders. Brain and Language, 85, 451-466

Courses:

PSYC7210: Human Neuropsychology
PSYC7001: Psychological Assessment

Contact Details:

Office: Mathews, Room 804
Telephone: (61-2) 9385-3029
Fax: (61-2) 9385-3641
Email: S.McDonald@unsw.edu.au

Personal Homepage: http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/Users/Smcdonald