University of New South Wales - School of Psychology

Skye McDonald, PhD Macquarie, MSc Melb.Uni, BSc(Hons) Monash,
Julie D. Henry, PhD, MA (Hons), Uni Aberdeen
Sharon Flanagan, MPsychol Sydney Uni
Cristina Bornhofen, PhD, MPsychol UNSW, BA (Hons) Macquarie
Aneta Dimoska, PhD, Uni Wollongong
Phoebe Bailey, BSc (Hons) UNSW, (PhD student)
Arielle DeSousa, BA (Hons) Macquarie (PhD student)
Maurice Finn, M Clin Psychol (UNSW) BA (Hons) Uni Adelaide (PhD Student)
Michelle Kelly, BPsych (Hons) Uni Newcastle (PhD Student)
Danielle Mathersul, BSc (Hons) USyd (PhD Student)

Affiliates

Olivier Piguet, PhD Sydney Uni, MSc (Clin Neuropsych) Melb Uni (based at POW MRI)
Antoinette ReDeblado Hodge, MNeuropsych Macquarie (based at Westmead Hospital)
Sara Lucas, MNeuropsych Macquarie (based at Westmead Hospital)
Agnes Rappaport, MPsychol Uni Syd (based at POW)
Corrine Roberts, MSc Melb Uni (Clinical Neuropsych) based at POW
Tasha Svelde, MNeuropsych Macquarie based at POW
Inge Martin, PhD, UNSW (based at Royal North Shore Hospital)
Robyn Tate, PhD Macquarie MPsychol UNSW, based at Uni Sydney
Michael Perdices, PhD UNSW, MA (Clin Neuropsych) based at Royal North Shore Hospital
Leanne Togher, PhD, Uni Syd based at University Sydney
John R. Crawford, BSc (Hons) MSc PhD FBPsS CClinPsychol (based at University of Aberdeen)
Louise H. Phillips, BSc (Hons) PhD CPsychol BPS (based at University of Aberdeen)
Melissa J. Green, BA Qld, MA UNE, PhD Syd (based at Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science)

Some current research projects

Our groups are running a number of projects examining the neuropsychological consequences of emotional and memory disorders in ageing, brain injury and other clinical conditions.

Click here for recent activities and publications of the labs of Skye McDonald and Julie Henry.

The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT) (Skye McDonald, Sharon Flanagan, Jennifer Rollins, J. (2001)

TASIT is an assessment tool that uses professional enacted videoed vignettes as stimuli in order to assess the ability to recognise basic emotions in others (PART 1). It is also designed to assess whether people can interpret conversational exchanges that are insincere (i.e. sarcastic) and make inferences concerning the beliefs, intentions, feelings and meanings of speakers, when these need to be determined on the basis of emotional demenour. (PARTS 2 and 3). The test can be purchased from Harcourt Assessment www.harcourt-au.com. For more information click here

Emotion processing

Behavioural, structural & functional correlates of emotion processing and regulation in healthy and pathological ageing (O. Piguet, S. McDonald, J.D. Henry, L.H. Phillips)
Towards a model of emotional control: Assessment of patients with focal cortical injuries (J.D Henry & S. McDonald)
Emotion regulatory deficits in relation to Alzheimer’s disease. (J.D. Henry, S. McDonald, I. Martin)
Emotional and cognitive control in Multiple Sclerosis (J.D. Henry, S. McDonald, L., Phillips, W. Beatty, W. Longley)
Cognitive impairment and post-traumatic stress in children with traumatic brain injury: Long-term follow up (J.Kenardy, V.Anderson; L.Connelly, S.McDonald; R. Le Brocque; A. Mandalis; .McKinlay)

Memory functioning

The effectiveness of reminders for improving recall for complex events after severe traumatic brain injury" (McDonald, S. & Salmon, K)

Communication disorders

The role of emotion and social cognition in communication disorders (McDonald)
Pragmatic language and social cognition in Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal dementia (McDonald)

Remediation and Rehabilitation

Remediating emotion disorders after acquired brain injury: Maximising treatment effects. (McDonald, S. & Tate, R)
Communication and severe brain injury (Togher, McDonald & Tate)
A clinical trial of the effect of neuropsychological treatments in increasing community participation after brain injury. (Tate, R., McDonald, S.).
Enhancing treatment effectiveness for psychosocial disorders after severe traumatic brain injury” (McDonald, S., Tate, R., & Togher, L.)

Evidenced based practice: PsycBITE ^(TM) www.psycbite.com

PsycBITE ^(TM) is a joint initiative between Skye McDonald, Robyn Tate (Sydney University) Michael Perdices (Royal North Shore Hospital), Leanne Togher and Anne Moseley (Sydney University). PsycBITE ^(TM) is a freely available database that indexes all papers every written that provide empirical data attesting to the efficacy of treatment for any psychologically based treatment arising from acquired brain impairment. Currently, PsycBITE ^(TM) has over 1,200 papers on its database that can be simply retrieved according to searches based on neurological disorders, deficit type or treatment approach. All papers are given a rating on their methodological rigour using either the 10-point PEDro scale (Maher, Sherrington, Herbert, Moseley & Elkins, 2003) or the PyscBITE ^(TM) scale for single case experimental design (currently under development).

Brain Damage associated with heroin use

Organic brain syndrome after non-fatal opioid overdose". (Darke, S., McDonald, S,)