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A/PROF SARAH WILSON



Contact Details

Organization: Behavioural Science, Medicine - Austin Health and Northern Health
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND READER, Honorary (Senior Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/WilsonS.html
Work: +61-3-8344-7391
Fax: +61-3-9347-6618
Building: Redmond Barry Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
New Zealand The University of Auckland Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (Honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1991
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 09-Apr-1997

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Music and Psychology Society Elected Member 01-Jan-2008 31-Dec-2009
Member Steering Committee, ARC Network in Human Communication Science HCSNet Steering Committee Member 01-Jan-2007 31-Dec-2009
Registered The Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria Registered Psychologist 06-Dec-1993
Member Australian Psychological Society MAPS 08-Oct-1997
Registered The APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists Clinical Neuropsychologist 25-Feb-1999
Member Epilepsy Society of Australia ESA 31-Aug-1998
Member International Bureau for Epilepsy Research Commission 01-Jan-2002 31-Dec-2005
Member National Music Therapy Research Unit Advisory Board 01-Jan-2005 31-Dec-2008

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Member, Australian Psychological Society (MAPS) 08-Oct-1997

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize International Bureau of Epilepsy IBE-SPACE Prize for Assessing Costs in Epilepsy 31-Dec-1999
Other (Award) GlaxoSmithKline Postdoctoral Epilepsy Fellowship 01-Jan-1997
Scholarship University of Melbourne Travelling Fund Scholarship 31-Dec-1994
Scholarship HECS Post-graduate Scholarship 01-Jan-1992
Other (Award) Australian Post-graduate Research Award 01-Jan-1992
Scholarship HECS Post-graduate Scholarship 01-Jan-1991

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
Using musical training to examine brain plasticity and cognitive skill development Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
Predicting the evolution of psychosocial and cognitive difficulties in epilepsy: a preventive approach Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
GLAXOSMITHKLINE AUSTRALIA
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004
"A Study of Acoustical, Psycho-acoustical and Musicological Factors in Tuned Percussion Ensemble Design" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Clinical presentation of Autism Spectrum Disorders in families Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2009

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

  • Personality development in the context of intractable epilepsy
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Archives of Neurology
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 68-72
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Indicators of psychosocial adjustment and outcome after epilepsy surgery
    Year: 2008
    Book: Behavioural aspects of epilepsy, principles & practice
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Journal Articles

  • Cognitive complaints after a first seizure in adulthood: Influence of psychological adjustment
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1-10
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  • Patterns of psychosocial adjustment following cardiac surgery
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 397-401
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  • Research review: Williams Syndrome: a critical review of the cognitive, behavioural and neuroanatomical phenotype
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 576-608
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  • contributions of the left and right mesial temporal lobes to music memory: Evidence from melodic learning difficulties
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Music Perception
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 303-314
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Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Neurological control of human sexual behaviour: insights from lesion studies
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
    Volume: 78
    Page numbers: 1042-1049
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  • Psychosocial adjustment following relief of chronic narcolepsy
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Sleep Medicine
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 252-259
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  • The burden of normality: A framework for rehabilitation after epilepsy surgery
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 13-16
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  • The psychological impact of a newly diagnosed seizure: Losing and restoring perceived control


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Epilepsy and Behavior
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 223-233
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The application of a neurophysiological model of pitch to ambiguous stimuli
    Year: 2007
    Event name: The International Conference on Music Communication Science
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Communication Science
    Page numbers: 99-102
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
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  • The perception of simultaneous pitches in ambiguous sounds
    Year: 2007
    Event name: The International Conference on Music Communication Science
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Communication Science
    Page numbers: 91-94
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • No evidence for the Mozart effect in children
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Music Perception
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 305-317
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  • Preserved singing in aphasia: A case study of the efficacy of melodic intonation therapy
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Music Perception
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 23-36
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  • The cognitive and academic benefits of music to children: facts and fiction
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Educational Psychology
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 579-594
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Cognitve bases of mathematical and musical competence: Shared or independent processes?
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1216-1224
    Publisher: European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music(Liege)
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  • Imaging the neurocognitive components of pitch naming: Insights from quasi-absolute pitch
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 825-833
    Publisher: European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music(Liege)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Characterizing psychosocial outcome trajectories following seizure surgery
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Epilepsy and Behavior
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 570-580
    Publisher: Academic Press - Elsevier Science(California)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Mood disturbance before and after seizure surgery: a comparison of temporal and extratemporal resections
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 534-543
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  • Paradoxical results in the cure of chronic illness: the "burden of normality" as exemplified following seizure surgery
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Epilepsy and Behavior
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 13-21
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  • The amygdala and sexual drive: Insights from temporal lobe epilepsy surgery
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Annals of Neurology
    Volume: 55
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 87-96
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Sexual outcome after epilepsy surgery.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Epilepsy and Behavior
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 268-278
    Publisher: Academic Press - Elsevier Science(California)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Hypersexuality after Temporal Lobe Resection
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Epilepsy and Behavior
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 173-181
    Publisher: Academic Press - Elsevier Science(California)
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  • Modelling rhythmic function in a musician post-stroke
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Neuropsychologia
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 1494-1505
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Seizure outcome after temporal lobectomy: current research practice and findings
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1288-1307
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • The "burden of normality": concepts of adjustment after surgery for seizures
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
    Volume: 70
    Page numbers: 649-656
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  • The longitudinal course of adjustment after seizure surgery
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 165-172
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