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Exploring the cognitive basis of right-hemisphere pragmatic language disordersS McDonald
Scholl of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Brain Lang 75:82-107. 2000..Nonetheless RH patients were found to have problems ignoring plausibility. Thus the specific RH hypothesis described needs to be reconsidered...
A randomised controlled trial evaluating a brief intervention for deficits in recognising emotional prosody following severe ABIS McDonald
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Neuropsychol Rehabil 23:267-86. 2013..In conclusion, treatment of emotional prosody was effective in the short-term for half of the participants. Further research is required to determine what conditions are required to optimise generalisability and longer-term gains...- Deficits in social perception in opioid maintenance patients, abstinent opioid users and non-opioid usersSkye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Addiction 108:566-74. 2013.... - The influence of attention and arousal on emotion perception in adults with severe traumatic brain injurySkye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Int J Psychophysiol 82:124-31. 2011..The results suggest that increasing attentional demands improves orientation and emotional engagement (arousal) to emotional faces following TBI. However, the relationship to this and emotion perception accuracy remains unclear... - Impaired mimicry response to angry faces following severe traumatic brain injurySkye McDonald
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 33:17-29. 2011..The results did not support the view that simulation (mimicry) facilitates emotion recognition... - Addressing deficits in emotion recognition after severe traumatic brain injury: the role of focused attention and mimicrySkye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Neuropsychol Rehabil 19:321-39. 2009..There was no such association in the control group and no associations between cognitive abilities and changes in scores using the Mimic strategy in either group... - Angry responses to emotional events: the role of impaired control and drive in people with severe traumatic brain injurySkye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 32:855-64. 2010..This study provides support for the use of formal measures of disinhibition on neuropsychological tests as a corollary for emotion disinhibition. As with previous work, operationalization of loss of drive was more difficult to achieve... - Dogs and other metaphors: reflections on the influence of Mark YlvisakerSkye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Semin Speech Lang 31:168-76. 2010..This article also reflects upon Ylvisaker's models for remediation and the extent to which these can be encompassed within (as well as shape) more traditional models of social skills training... - Social skills treatment for people with severe, chronic acquired brain injuries: a multicenter trialSkye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:1648-59. 2008.... - Differential impairment in recognition of emotion across different media in people with severe traumatic brain injurySkye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 11:392-9. 2005..While this may attest to the independence of the auditory affective system, it may also reflect problems with the dual demands of listening to conversational meaning and affective tone... - Reliability and validity of The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT): a clinical test of social perceptionSkye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Disabil Rehabil 28:1529-42. 2006..e., sincere remarks and lies) or non-literally (i.e., sarcasm) as well as the ability to make judgments about the thoughts, intentions and feelings of speakers. This paper aims to examine TASIT's reliability and validity... - Social perception deficits after traumatic brain injury: interaction between emotion recognition, mentalizing ability, and social communicationSkye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Neuropsychology 18:572-9. 2004..In general, emotion recognition and first-order theory of mind judgments were not related to the ability to understand social (conversational) inference, whereas second-order theory of mind judgments were related to that ability... - TASIT: A new clinical tool for assessing social perception after traumatic brain injurySkye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Head Trauma Rehabil 18:219-38. 2003..To develop a clinically sensitive test of social perception for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI)... - Why don't you feel how I feel? Insight into the absence of empathy after severe traumatic brain injuryArielle de Sousa
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Neuropsychologia 48:3585-95. 2010..The results represent a further step towards understanding what processes shape empathy... - Understanding deficits in empathy after traumatic brain injury: The role of affective responsivityArielle de Sousa
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cortex 47:526-35. 2011..The results have implications for understanding the impaired social functioning and poor quality of interpersonal relationships commonly seen as a consequence of TBI... - Changes in emotional empathy, affective responsivity, and behavior following severe traumatic brain injuryArielle de Sousa
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 34:606-23. 2012..The results represent the first to suggest that level of emotional empathy post traumatic brain injury may be associated with behavioral manifestations of disorders of drive and control... - Social cognition, empathy and functional outcome in schizophreniaAmy Sparks
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2031, Australia
Schizophr Res 122:172-8. 2010..These findings have implications for the remediation of specific social cognitive deficits with respect to improving functional outcomes in schizophrenia... - Emotion dysregulation and schizotypyJulie D Henry
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia
Psychiatry Res 166:116-24. 2009..Implications for understanding blunted affect in schizophrenia and related disorders are discussed... - Social dysdecorum following severe traumatic brain injury: loss of implicit social knowledge or loss of control?Skye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 33:619-30. 2011..Performance in general did not fit well with the implicit social cognition explanation for social dysdecorum following TBI. More evidence was found to support the executive account... - Emotion regulation in schizophrenia: affective, social, and clinical correlates of suppression and reappraisalJulie D Henry
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
J Abnorm Psychol 117:473-8. 2008..Implications for understanding blunted affect and social dysfunction in schizophrenia are discussed... - Loss of emotional experience after traumatic brain injury: findings with the startle probe procedureJennifer Clare Saunders
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Neuropsychology 20:224-31. 2006..The results are consistent with recent evidence of differential impairment in negative versus positive emotions after TBI and are discussed in relation to 2 competing explanations of startle modulation... - Treating deficits in emotion perception following traumatic brain injuryCristina Bornhofen
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Neuropsychol Rehabil 18:22-44. 2008..e., video vignettes) and in making social inferences on the basis of speaker demeanour. This is the first known treatment study dealing with emotion perception deficits in individuals with TBI... - Emotion dysregulation in schizophrenia: reduced amplification of emotional expression is associated with emotional bluntingJulie D Henry
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia
Schizophr Res 95:197-204. 2007..These difficulties are significantly correlated with total negative symptoms experienced, particularly emotional blunting... - Cognitive disinhibition and socioemotional functioning in Alzheimer's diseaseScott Nash
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 13:1060-4. 2007..Controlling for general cognitive status, in the AD (but not the control) group, reduced cognitive inhibition was associated with lower levels of depression. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed... - Recognition of disgust is selectively preserved in Alzheimer's diseaseJulie D Henry
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Neuropsychologia 46:1363-70. 2008.... - Evidence for deficits in facial affect recognition and theory of mind in multiple sclerosisJulie D Henry
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 15:277-85. 2009..These data highlight the need for future research to more fully delineate the extent and implications of emotion understanding difficulties in this population... - Emotion perception deficits following traumatic brain injury: a review of the evidence and rationale for interventionCristina Bornhofen
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 14:511-25. 2008..The article concludes with a discussion of the importance of carrying out efforts to improve emotion perception within a contextualized framework in which the day-to-day relevance of training is clear to all recipients... - Comparative patterns of cognitive performance amongst opioid maintenance patients, abstinent opioid users and non-opioid usersShane Darke
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
Drug Alcohol Depend 126:309-15. 2012..To compare the cognitive performances of maintenance patients (MAIN), abstinent ex-users (ABST) and healthy non-heroin using controls (CON)... - Preferential processing of threatening facial expressions using the repetition blindness paradigmLoren Mowszowski
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cogn Emot 26:1238-55. 2012..RB (i.e., failure to report the second instance of an identical stimulus rapidly following the first) has been established for words, objects and faces but not, to date, facial expressions... - An exploration of participant experience of a communication training program for people with traumatic brain injury and their communication partnersLeanne Togher
Speech Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Disabil Rehabil 34:1562-74. 2012..To investigate the experiences of participants who attended communication training programs for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their everyday communication partners (CP) as part of a non-randomised controlled trial... - All alone with sweaty palms--physiological arousal and ostracismMichelle Kelly
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Int J Psychophysiol 83:309-14. 2012..The implications of these results are discussed in terms of the potential of differential autonomic activity to predict the coping strategies that people engage in following ostracism... - Comparing strategies for treating emotion perception deficits in traumatic brain injuryCristina Bornhofen
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
J Head Trauma Rehabil 23:103-15. 2008..To compare the efficacy of 2 strategies, errorless learning (EL) and self-instruction training (SIT), for remediating emotion perception deficits in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI)... - A meta-analysis of response inhibition and Stroop interference control deficits in adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI)Aneta Dimoska-Di Marco
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 33:471-85. 2011..96). Together these findings support a response inhibition deficit following TBI but suggest factors other than interference control, such as poor processing speed, fatigue, and underarousal, may underlie poor performance in Stroop tasks... - Weak coherence, no theory of mind, or executive dysfunction? Solving the puzzle of pragmatic language disordersIngerith Martin
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Brain Lang 85:451-66. 2003..It is recommended that a new, more convergent approach to investigating the causes of pragmatic language disability be adopted... - An exploration of causes of non-literal language problems in individuals with Asperger SyndromeIngerith Martin
University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, Australia
J Autism Dev Disord 34:311-28. 2004..Results indicated that the ability to understand the belief states of others is critical to understanding ironic language in AS... - Theory of mind after traumatic brain injuryHelen Bibby
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Neuropsychologia 43:99-114. 2005..Implications of this finding for the possibility of a separate cognitive module of ToM are discussed, as well as for the rehabilitation of social deficits after TBI... - Assessing social cognition and pragmatic language in adolescents with traumatic brain injuriesSkye McDonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 19:528-38. 2013..jins, 2013, 19, 1-11)... - Real-time imaging of cortical areas involved in the generation of increases in skin sympathetic nerve activity when viewing emotionally charged imagesLuke A Henderson
Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Neuroimage 62:30-40. 2012..These data reveal for the first time, cortical and subcortical sites involved in generating SSNA changes during emotions... - The child in time: the influence of parent-child discussion about a future experience on how it is rememberedKaren Salmon
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Memory 16:485-99. 2008..The potential underlying mechanisms and theoretical implications are discussed... - Recognizing vocal expressions of emotion in patients with social skills deficits following traumatic brain injuryA Dimoska
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Kensington 2052 NSW, Australia
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 16:369-82. 2010..Emotional recognition accuracy was significantly related to the ability to inhibit prepotent responses, consistent with neuroanatomical research suggesting similar ventrofrontal systems subserve both functions... - A validation study of two brief measures of depression in the cardiac population: the DMI-10 and DMI-18Therese M Hilton
Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Psychosomatics 47:129-35. 2006..The DMI-18 and DMI-10 are appropriate for use as screening instruments in cardiac patients... - Update on Cicerone's systematic review of cognitive rehabilitation: the PsycBITE perspectiveRobyn L Tate
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 87:446. 2006