Research successes: February 2010
February 2010
Papers accepted
Congratulations to Kevin Munro in A&D on having another paper accepted. “Uncomfortable loudness levels in experienced unilateral and bilateral hearing aid users: Evidence of adaptive plasticity following asymmetrical sensory input?” (Ann-Marie Hamilton & Kevin J. Munro) was accepted for publication in International Journal of Audiology.
Well done to Paul Warren (CCN) on having not one but two papers accepted in the month of February. The details are as follows:
Freeman, T. C. A., Champion, R. A. & Warren, P. A. (in press). A Bayesian model of perceived head-centred velocity during smooth pursuit eye movement. Current Biology.
Hahn, U. & Warren, P. A. (in press). Why three heads are a better better than four: A Reply to Sun, Tweney and Wang (2009). Psychological Review.
There has once again been success with papers from the CNLD team. Well done to Maya Visser who had her paper ("The anterior temporal lobes and semantic memory clarified: Novel evidence from distortion-corrected spin-echo EPI fMRI") accepted in Neuropsychologia. Well done also to James Keidel whose paper (with Stephen Welbourne and Matt Lambon-Ralph) "Solving the paradox of the equipotential and modular brain: A neurocomputational model of stroke vs. slow-growing glioma" was accepted in Neuropsychologia.
Lastly for CNLD, Ray Wilkinson had a paper published in “Research on Language and Social Interaction” (Wilkinson, R., Beeke, S. & Maxim, J. (2010) Formulating actions and events with limited linguistic resources: Enactment and iconicity in agrammatic aphasic talk. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 43, 1, 57-84).
February also proved to be a successful month for CHP. Well done firstly to Dawn Adams (Academic Tutor on the Clinical Psychology Programme) on having her manuscript ("The relationship between acquired impairments of executive function and behaviour change in adults with Down syndrome") accepted for publication in the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. Congratulations should also go to Alison Wearden and Sarah Peters. Ten years after first starting to write the original grant proposal for the MRC funded FINE Trial, the report of the main findings were accepted for publication in the BMJ (Wearden, A.J., Dowrick, C., Chew-Graham, C., Bentall, R.P., Morriss, R.K., Peters, S., Riste, L., Richardson, G., Lovell K., & Dunn, G. (the FINE Trial Writing group on behalf of the FINE Trial group). “A randomised controlled trial of a nurse-led home-based self-help treatment for patients in primary care with chronic fatigue syndrome”the FINE Trial. British Medical Journal). Another paper from the trial was also accepted in February; Chew-Graham, C., Dowrick C., Wearden, C., Richardson, V., & Peters, S.(2010). “Making the diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyeltis in primary care: a qualitative study.” BMC Family Practice 11:16. Success didn’t stop there for Sarah Peters as she also had 2 papers published in February. The details are as follows:
Lobban F, Morriss R, Taylor L, Chandler C, Tyler E, Kinderman P, Gamble C, Peters S, Pontin E, Sellwood W. (2010) Cluster feasibility randomised trial of enhanced relapse prevention for bipolar disorder in community mental health teams. British Journal of Psychiatry. 196 59 - 63.
Morriss R, Gask L, Dowrick C, Dunn G, Peters S, Ring A, Davies J, Salmon P. (2010) Randomised trial of reattribution on psychosocial talk between doctors and patients with medically unexplained symptoms. Psychological Medicine 40 (2) 325-334
Other news
A special mention must go to Maya Visser from CNLD who, in addition to having her paper accepted in Neuropsychologia (see above), was also offered a Post-Doc in Barcelona.