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DR LARRY ABEL



Contact Details

Organization: Optometry and Vision Sciences
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Work: 8344 7007
Fax: 9349 7498
Level: 02
Building: 374 Cardigan St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
eye movement control cognitive sciences Northern America, Northern Europe, Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Case Western Reserve University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Carnegie Mellon University 31-Dec-1971
Master of Science Carnegie Mellon University 31-Dec-1972
Doctor of Philosophy Carnegie Mellon University 31-Dec-1976

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc member 01-Jan-1970 31-Dec-2009
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science member 01-Jan-1979 20-Mar-2009
Member Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology member 01-Jan-1976 31-Dec-2009
Member Society for Neuroscience member 01-Jan-1979 31-Dec-2009

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
CAN VOLITIONAL AND REFLEXIVE SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENTS PREDICT PERSISTENT PROBLEMS AFTER MILD HEAD INJURY IN CHILDREN? Chief Investigator TAC Project Grant (VICTORIAN NEUROTRAUMA INITIATIVE (DO NOT USE)) 05/01/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
RESEARCH AGREEMENT - FATIGUE STUDY - PUPIL AND EYE MOVEMENT BEHAVIOURS AS INDICATORS OF FATIGUE Chief Investigator DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES 09/12/2010

Consultancies

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
NEW DRUG BEING DEVELOPED FOR TREATMENT OF A RARE NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER Chief Investigator ACTELION PHARMACEUTICALS 01/09/2004

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 2012

Journal Articles

  • Pontine-to-midbrain ratio indexes ocular-motor function and illness stage in adult Niemann-Pick disease type C


    Year: 2012
    Journal: European Journal of Neurology
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 462-467
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Publications in 2011

Journal Articles

  • Optokinetic Nystagmus Suppression as an Index of the Allocation of Visual Attention


    Year: 2011
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 52
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 462-467
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  • Pontine-to-midbrain ratio indexes ocular-motor function and illness stage in adult Niemann–Pick disease type C
    Year: 2011
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 462-467
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  • Size and shape of the corpus callosum in adult Niemann-pick Type C reflects state and trait illness variables
    Year: 2011
    Journal: American Journal of Neuroradiology
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1340-1346
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Publications in 2010

Journal Articles

  • Long-term miglustat therapy in children with Niemann-Pick disease Type C
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Journal of Child Neurology
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 300-305
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  • Miglustat in adult and juvenile patients with Niemann-Pick Disease Type C:  Long-term data from a clinical trial.
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Molecular Genetics and Metabolism
    Volume: 99
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 351-357
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Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Developmental Eye Movement Test: What is it really measuring?
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Optometry and Vision Science
    Volume: 86
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 722-730
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  • Saccades in adult Niemann-Pick disease type C reflect frontal, brainstem, and biochemical deficits.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 72
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1083-1086
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Does performance on the standard antisaccade task meet the co-familiality criterion for an endophenotype?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Brain and Cognition
    Volume: 68
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 462-475
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  • Extraversion degrades performance on the antisaccade task
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 1231
    Page numbers: 81-85
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  • Factors influencing the experience of oscillopsia in infantile nystagmus syndrome.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 3424-3431
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  • Randomized, controlled trial of miglustat in Gaucher's disease type 3
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Annals of Neurology
    Volume: 64
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 514-522
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  • Task-induced stress and motivation decrease foveation-period durations in infantile Nystagmus syndrome.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 2977-2984
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  • Wavelet analysis in infantile nystagmus syndrome: Limitations and abilities
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 3413-3423
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Effects of age on latency and error generation in internally mediated saccades
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Neurobiology of Aging
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 627-637
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  • Miglustat for treatment of Niemann-Pick C disease: a randomised controlled study
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Lancet Neurology
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 765-772
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  • Oscillopsia in "Inverse Latent" Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Optometry and Vision Science
    Volume: 84
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1017-1023
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Infantile Nystagmus: Current concepts in diagnosis and management.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Optometry
    Volume: 89
    Page numbers: 57-65
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  • Optokinetic nystagmus as an assessment of visual attention to divided stimuli
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 828-833
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  • The psychosocial impact of amblyopia and its treatment: A multidisciplinary study
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 743-750
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Examining the Pseudo-Standard Web Search Engine Results age
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 11th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
    Page numbers: 9-16
    Publisher: Queensland University of Technology(Brisbane)
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    URL - open access http://www.adcs06.fit.qut.edu.au/

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • The effects of increased visual task demand on foveation in congenital nystagmus
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 1139-1146
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • The plasticity of vertical motor and sensory fusion in normal subjects
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Strabismus
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 109-118
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