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DR ALLISON MCKENDRICK



Contact Details

Organization: Optometry and Vision Sciences
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Work: 83447016
Building: 374 Cardigan St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
clinical psychophysics, perimetry, glaucoma Australia
migraine, vision Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Legacy Good Samaritan Devers Eye Institute Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science in Optometry University of Melbourne 01-Dec-1992
Master of Science (Optometry) University of Melbourne 21-Oct-1994
Doctor of Philosophy - Science University of Melbourne 04-Jan-1999

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology Member 01-Jan-1996
Member International Headache Society Member 01-Jan-2003
Member International Perimetric Society Member 01-Jan-2004
Member Australian Neuroscience Sociey Member 01-Jan-2004
Member Optometrist's Association Australia Member 01-Jan-1992

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
Design and analysis of optimal algorithms for automated perimetry Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
CHARACTERISING THE CHANGES IN REGULATION OF VISUAL CONTRAST SENSITIVITY IN GLAUCOMA Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2005
Visual tests to investigate altered brain function in migraine Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2008
Understanding the consequences of normal aging on visual form perception. Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
Resolving multi-sensory conflict as we age: audio-visual integration and the role of normal and abnormal sensory decline Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Future Fellowships 09/09/2009

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 2009

Journal Articles

  • Aging alters surround modulation of perceived contrast.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Vision
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1-9
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  • Combining ganglion cell topology and data of patients with glaucoma to determine a structure-function map.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 50
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 3249-3256
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  • Entropy of the retina template.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume: 5558
    Page numbers: 1250-1259
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  • Low spatial frequency contrast sensitivity deficits in migraine are not visual pathway selective.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Cephalalgia
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 539-549
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  • Spatial summation properties for magnocellular and parvocellular pathways in glaucoma.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 1221-1226
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A two-stage neural spiking model of visual contrast detection in perimetry.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 1859-1869
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  • Foveal contrast processing of increment and decrement targets is equivalently reduced in glaucoma.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: British Journal of Ophthalmology
    Volume: 92
    Page numbers: 1287-1292
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Contrast sensitivity changes due to glaucoma and normal aging: low-spatial frequency losses in both magnocellular and parvocellular pathways.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 2115-2122
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  • Quantifying Adaptation and Fatigue Effects in Frequency Doubling Perimetry
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 943-948
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  • Retesting Visual Fields: Utilizing Prior Information to Decrease Test-Retest Variability in Glaucoma
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1627-1634
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Do migraineurs have a difficulty judging direction of simulated heading?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cephalalgia
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 949-959
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  • Motion perception in migraineurs: Abnormalities are not related to attention
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cephalalgia
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1131-1136
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  • Processing of global form and motion in migraineurs
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 141-148
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  • Vernier acuity is normal in migraine, whereas global form and global motion perception are not
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 3213-3219
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Advantages of Terminating Zippy Estimation by Sequential Testing (ZEST) With Dynamic Criteria for White-on-White Perimetry
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Optometry and Vision Science
    Volume: 82
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 981-987
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Combining perimetric suprathreshold and threshold procedures to reduce measurement variability in areas of visual field loss.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Optometry and Vision Science
    Volume: 82
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 43-51
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  • Observer-based rather than population-based confidence limits for determining probability of change in visual fields
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 25-26
    Page numbers: 3277-3289
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Recent developments in perimetry: test stimuli and procedures.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Optometry
    Volume: 88
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 73-80
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  • The detection of both global motion and global form is disrupted in glaucoma.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 3693-3701
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • An analysis of the factors associated with visual field deficits measured with flickering stimuli between migraine.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Cephalalgia
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 389-97
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  • Decreased visual field sensitivity measured 1 day, then 1 week, after migraine.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1061-1070
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  • Motion processing deficits in migraine.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Cephalalgia
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 363-72
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  • Psychophysical measurement of neural adaptation abnormalities in magnocellular and parvocellular pathways in glaucoma.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1846-53
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Temporal properties of vision


    Year: 2003
    Book: Adler's Physiology of the Eye
    Publisher: Mosby International(St Louis)
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Journal Articles

  • Appearance of the frequency doubling stimulus in normal subjects and patients with glaucoma.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 111
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  • Contrast processing dysfunction in both magnocellular and parvocellular pathways in migraineurs both with and without aura.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 442-448
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  • Measurement error of visual field tests in glaucoma.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: British Journal of Ophthalmology
    Volume: 87
    Page numbers: 107-112
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  • Pattern cues disambiguate perceived direction in simple moving stimuli.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 2291-2301
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  • Properties of perimetric threshold estimates from Full Threshold, ZEST, and SITA-like strategies as determined by computer simulation.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 4787-95
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Development of efficient thresholding strategies for frequency doubling perimetry using computer simulation.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 322-331
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  • Elevated vernier acuity thresholds in glaucoma
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 1393-1399
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  • Performance of efficient test procedures for frequency-doubling perimetry in normal and glaucomatous eyes.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 709-715
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  • Short wavelength sensitivity deficits in migraineurs.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Archives of Ophthalmology
    Volume: 120
    Page numbers: 173-180
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Visual Dysfunction between Migraine Events
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 626-633
    Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Inc(Maryland)
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