Prof Ron Rapee (Macquarie University) Title: Identifying risk for the development of internalising distress across adolescence Abstract: Early to middle adolescence is a time of major social and emotional change. Peer relationships begin to take on increasing salience; pubertal changes result in increasingly overt alterations in appearance; self-concept becomes more fluid and negative; and emotional […]
ECR Fire Talks (University of Sydney Psychology) Samuel Warren Staging frontotemporal dementia using multimodal features and event-based modelling INTRODUCTION: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) comprises several clinical phenotypes with overlapping features that can impact diagnostic timelines and confidence. Here, we applied event-based models (EBM) to characterise the relative ordering of shared clinical and neurodegenerative features in behavioural-variant FTD […]
Cultural diversity in research community (University of Sydney Psychology) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Bio: TBA
Postgraduate Prizes with talks by winners (University of Sydney Psychology) H. Tasman Lovell Memorial Medallion winner: Dr Matthew Blanchard (in absentia) Faculty of Science Prize for Outstanding PhD Thesis nominee: Dr Tao Chen Title: Behavioural Rigidity in Dementia: From Clinical Significance to Neurobiological Mechanisms Abstract: With the rapid ageing of the global population, dementia poses […]
Prof Kevin Dunn (Western Sydney University) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Bio: TBA
A/Prof Michele Barnes (University of Sydney Engineering) Title: Networks, behavior, and the environment: understanding how people navigate global change Abstract: The scale and magnitude of environmental change are escalating, and meeting this challenge increasingly depends on understanding how people are connected, both to one another and to the ecosystems they interact with and rely on. […]
Prof Anne Castles (Australian Catholic University) Title: Word learning in adolescent readers Abstract: Formal reading instruction typically concludes at the end of the primary school years, with children assumed to transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn”. Yet the results of both national and international studies show that as much as 30% of […]
A/Prof Miri Forbes (Macquarie University) Title: The Future of Mental Disorder Classification: Problems, Progress, and Possibilities Abstract: There is growing evidence of substantial limitations in traditional, categorical approaches to the classification of mental disorders like the DSM and ICD. In this talk I will examine the case for rethinking how we classify mental illness, and […]
Prof Jason Mattingley (University of Queensland) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Bio: TBA
