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DR DAVID ABBOTT



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Organization: Medicine - Austin Health
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow)
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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
What drives abnormal cerebral activity in secondary generalised epilepsy Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2010
From sound to hearing: the integration of behavioural, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging research with computational models. Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2012

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 2011

Journal Articles

  • Equivalent Retention of Gains at 1 Year After Training With Constraint-Induced or Bimanual Therapy in Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 664-671
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  • INCITE: A randomised trial comparing constraint induced movement therapy and bimanual training in children with congenital hemiplegia
    Year: 2011
    Journal: BMC Neurology
    Volume: 10
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  • Participation Outcomes in a Randomized Trial of 2 Models of Upper-Limb Rehabilitation for Children With Congenital Hemiplegia
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
    Volume: 92
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 531-539
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  • Randomized trial of constraint-induced movement therapy and bimanual training on activity outcomes for children with congenital hemiplegia
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 313-320
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  • Relationship Between Touch Impairment and Brain Activation After Lesions of Subcortical and Cortical Somatosensory Regions
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
    Page numbers: 443-457
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Publications in 2010

Journal Articles

  • Changes in brain morphology in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Thorax
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 908-914
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  • Focal epileptiform spikes do not show a canonical BOLD response in patients with benign rolandic epilepsy (BECTS)
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 51
    Page numbers: 252-260
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  • Functional MRI interactions between dysplastic nodules and overlaying cortex in periventricular nodular heterotopia
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Epilepsy and Behavior
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 631-634
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  • New anatomic MRI techniques
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 51
    Issue: supp 1
    Page numbers: 80-82
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  • fMRI assessment of language lateralization: An objective approach
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 50
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1446-1455
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Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Hippocampal volume assessment in temporal lobe epilepsy:  How good is automated segmentation?

    Year: 2009
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 50
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2586-2592
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  • How wrong can we be? The effect of inaccurate mark-up of EEG/fMRI studies in epilepsy
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Clinical Neurophysiology
    Volume: 120
    Page numbers: 1637-1647
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  • Neuropsychological and functional MRI studies provide converging evidence of anterior language dysfunction in BECTS
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Page numbers: 2276-2284
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  • Voxel-Based Iterative Sensitivity (VBIS) analysis: Methods and a validation of intensity scaling for T2-weighted imaging of hippocampal sclerosis
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 812-819
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Composite voxel-based analysis of volume and T2 relaxometry in temporal lobe epilepsy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1151-61
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  • Multi-site voxel-based morphometry: methods and a feasibility demonstration with childhood absence epilepsy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 611-6
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  • Reproducible activation in BA2, 1 and 3b associated with texture discrimination in healthy volunteers over time
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 40-51
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  • Selection of the control group for VBM analysis: influence of covariates, matching and sample size
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1324-35
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  • Stimulus-driven and strategic neural responses to fearful and happy facial expressions in humans
    Year: 2008
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 3074-3082
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Hippocampal Sclerosis: MR Prediction of Seizure Intractability
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 2007
    Page numbers: 315-323
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  • Measurement and reduction of motion and ballistocardiogram artefacts from simultaneous EEG and fMRI recordings
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 202-211
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Event-related fMRI of Myoclonic Jerks Arising from Dysplastic Cortex
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Page numbers: 1487-1492
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  • Functional Connectivity Networks Are Disrupted in Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Annals of Neurology
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 2006
    Page numbers: 335-343
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  • Further Steps Toward Direct Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging Detection of Neural Action Currents: Optimization of MR Sensitivity to Transient and Weak Currents in a Conductor
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry
    Volume: 55
    Issue: 2006
    Page numbers: 1038-1046
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  • Is Language Lateralization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients Related to the Nature of the Epileptogenic Lesion?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 2006
    Page numbers: 916-920
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  • Optimized Clinical T2 Relaxometry With a Standard CPMG Sequence
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 2006
    Page numbers: 248-252
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  • Pathologic and physiologic function in the subcortical band of double cortex
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 67
    Issue: 2006
    Page numbers: 1090-1093
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  • Relationship between language lateralization and handedness in left-hemispheric partial epilepsy
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 67
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1813-1817
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  • Thalamic Atrophy in Childhood Absence Epilepsy
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 2006
    Page numbers: 399-405
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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

Book Chapters

  • Magnetic resonance neurophysiology: simultaneous EEG and fMRI
    Year: 2005
    Book: Magnetic Resonance in Epilepsy
    Publisher: Academic Press - Elsevier Science(Burlington)
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Journal Articles

  • Brief breath holding may confound functional magnetic resonance imaging studies
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Human Brain Mapping
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 284-290
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  • Cerebral structural changes in severe obstructive sleep apnea
    Year: 2005
    Journal: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
    Volume: 171
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1185-1190
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  • Cortical/subcortical BOLD changes associated with epileptic discharges. An EEG-fMRI study at 3 T
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 64
    Page numbers: 1125-1130
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  • Effect of prior cognitive state on resting state networks measured with functional connectivity
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Human Brain Mapping
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 59-68
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  • Functional MRI of the pre-ictal state
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Brain
    Volume: 128
    Page numbers: 1811-1817
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  • How reliable are fMRI-EEG studies of epilesy? A nonparametric approach to analysis validation and optimization
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 192-199
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  • Motor impairment and recovery in the upper limb after stroke
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Stroke
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 625-629
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Typical childhood absence seizures are associated with thalamic activation
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Epileptic Disorders
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 373-377
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Digit representation is more than just hand waving
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Cognitive Brain Research
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 412-417
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  • Functional imaging of intratumoral hypoxia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Molecular Imaging and Biology
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 291-305
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(New York)
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  • Language cortex activation in normal children
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 63
    Page numbers: 1035-1044
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  • Viewing the motion of human body parts activates different regions of premotor, temporal, and parietal cortex
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 277-288
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  • Voxel-based relaxometry: a new approach for analysis of T2 relaxometry changes in epilepsy
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 707-713
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • MR imaging of epilepsy - State of the art at 1.5T and potential of 3T
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Epileptic Disorders
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 3-20
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  • The human temporal lobe integrates facial form and motion: evidence from fMRI and ERP studies
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 861-869
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  • fMRI "deactivation" of the posterior cingulate during generalized spike and wave
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 1915-1922
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Brain reorganisation in cerebral palsy: A high-field functional MRI study
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Neuropediatrics
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 162-165
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  • Reemergence of activation with poststroke somatosensory recovery: A serial fMRI case study
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 749-752
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