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PROF VICKI ANNE ANDERSON



Contact Details

Organization: Behavioural Science
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Child psychology, Brain injury and developmental delays in children, School-based learning difficulties Australia
Head injuries, Attention deficit disorder (diagnosis, aetiology and management) Child health, learning difficulties and their treatment, Child stroke, traumatic brain injury Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
B.A. (Hons), First Class, Dept. of Psychology University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1979
Master of Arts University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1982
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1991

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Psychological Society 01-Jan-1981
Registered Psychologists' Registration Board of Victoria 01-Jan-1981
Member International Neuropsychological Association 01-Jan-1995 31-Dec-1997
Member American Psychological Association 01-Jan-2000
Member Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment 01-Jan-1998
Member Society for Neuroscience 01-Jan-2005

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment 31-Dec-2004

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Cerebral plasticity or early vulnerability? Identifying critical periods for childhood development and recovery Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2003

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Are neuropsychological impairments in children with early-treated Phenylketonuria (PKU) related to white matter abnormalities or elevated Phenylalanine levels?


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Developmental Neuropsychology
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 645-668
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  • The Localization and Laterization of memory deficits in children with temporal lobe epilepsy   


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 124-132
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  • Do lesion site and severity predict deficits in attentional control after preschool trauma brain injury (TBI)?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Brain Injury
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 279-292
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  • Executive function following focal frontal lobe lesins: impact of timing of lesion on outcome
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cortex
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 792-805
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  • Fractionation of verbal memory impairment in schizophrenia and schizophreniform psychosis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 2007
    Page numbers: 732-739
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  • Memory outcome at 5 years post-childhood traumatic brain injury
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Brain Injury
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 13-14
    Page numbers: 1399-1409
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  • Neuropsychological function 23 years after mild traumatic brain injury: A comparison of outcome after paediatric and adult head injuries
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Brain Injury
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 963-979
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  • Recovery in memory function, and its relationship to academic success, at 24 months following pediatric TBI
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Child Neuropsychology
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 240-261
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  • Self-regulation as a mediator of the effects of childhood traumatic brain injury on social and behavioral functioning
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of International Neuropsychological Society
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 298-311
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Advances in postacute rehabilitation after childhood acquired brain injury
    Year: 2006
    Journal: American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
    Volume: 85
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 767-778
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  • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and working memory: A task switching paradigm
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 1288-1306
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  • Children's attentional skills 5 years post-TBI
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Pediatric Psychology
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-16
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  • Comparing attentional skills in children with acquired and developmental central nervous system disorders
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 519-531
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  • Higher cortical deficits influence attentional processing in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), relative to patients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT) and controls
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
    Volume: 77
    Page numbers: 1129-1135
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  • Intellectual outcomes in children and adolescents with syndromic and nonsyndromic craniosynostosis
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
    Volume: 118
    Page numbers: 175-181
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  • Intelligence and adaptive function in children diagnosed with brain tumour during infancy
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Neuro-Oncology
    Volume: 80
    Page numbers: 295-303
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  • Planning, problem-solving and organizational abilities in children following traumatic brain injury: Intervention techniques
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Pediatric Rehabilitation
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 89-97
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  • Self-regulation and social and behavioral functioning following childhood traumatic brain injury
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 609-621
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  • The development of sustained attention in children: The effect of age and task load
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Child Neuropsychology
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 205-221
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  • Understanding predictors of functional recovery and outcome 30 months following early childhood head injury
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Neuropsychology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 42-57
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  • fMRI Lateralization of expressive language in children with cerebral lesions
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 2006
    Page numbers: 998-1008
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A prospective study of the recovery of attention from acute to 2 years following pediatric traumatic brain injury
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 84-98
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • Attentional and processing skills following traumatic brain injury in early childhood
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Brain Injury
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 699-710
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(London)
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  • Effects of methylphenidate on attention skills in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Brain Impairment
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 21-32
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  • Functional plasticity or vulnerability after early brain injury?
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Pediatrics
    Volume: 116
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1374-1382
    Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics(Illinois)
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  • Health-risk behaviours among adolescent survivors of childhood cancer.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Pediatric Blood & Cancer
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 706-715
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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  • Identifying factors contributing to child and family outcome 30 months after traumatic brain injury in children
    Year: 2005