Dr Claudia Metzler-Baddeley
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As a cognitive neuropsychologist, my research is concerned with
i. understanding the mechanisms underlying cognitive changes (perception, attention, executive function, memory) following brain injury and disease; particularly those associated with age-related neurodegenerative and (more recently) vascular disease and
ii. to utilise this knowledge in cognitive strategies to compensate for the loss of cognitive abilities and to exploit preserved cognitive function.
Currently I am investigating changes in fronto-temporal white matter tracts and executive and memory functions in healthy ageing and in Mild Cognitive Impairment (with and without vascular changes) using structural MRI such as Diffusion Tensor Imaging and behavioural techniques.
Selected Publications
Metzler-Baddeley, C., Baddeley, R. J., Lovell, P. G., Laffan, A. & Jones, R. W. (2010). Visual Impairments in Dementia With Lewy Bodies and Posterior Cortical Atrophy, Neuropsychology, 24(1), 35–48.
Laffan, A., Metzler-Baddeley, C., Walker I., & Jones, R.W. (2009). Making errorless learning more active: Self-generation in an error free learning context is superior to standard errorless learning in people with Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 18, 1-15.
Metzler-Baddeley, C. (2007). A review of cognitive impairments in Dementia with Lewy bodies relative to Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease with dementia. Cortex, 43(5), 583-600.
Metzler, C. (2001). Effects of left frontal cortex lesions on the selection of context appropriate meanings. Neuropsychology, 15(3), 315-328.
Metzler, C. & Parkin, A. J. (2000). Reversed Negative Priming following frontal lobe lesions. Neuropsychologia, 38(4), 363-379.