Research has been published within the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit on the following subjects. Click on the hyperlinks below to view the publications by category, or just scroll down the page.
Conference Proceedings/Abstracts
Simpson, G.K., Orchison, R. (1997) An analysis of the psychological process of loss after an
acquired brain injury in comparison to a bereavement. Proceedings of the Joint National
Conference, for NALAG ACISA ASTSS, ‘Trauma, Grief and Growth.’ Sydney, 323-327.
Simpson, G.K. (1996) A model of adjustment counselling after traumatic brain injury. In Ponsford J, Snow P, Anderson V [Eds.].Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traumatic Brain Injury and 20th Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, Melbourne, Australia, 403-406.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Kelly,
G., Todd, J., Simpson, G.K., Martin, C., and Kremer, P. (2006). The Overt
Behaviour Scale (OBS): A tool for measuring challenging behaviours following ABI
in community settings. Brain Injury 20, 307-319.
Todd, J., Loewy, J., Kelly, G., and Simpson, G.K. (2004). Managing challenging behaviours after acquired brain injury: How to put in place interventions that work. Brain Impairment 5, 42-52.
Simpson, G.K., Blaszczynski, A., and Hodgkinson, A. (1999). Sexual offending as a psychosocial sequela of traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 14(6), 1-16.
Manchester, D., Hodgkinson, A., Pfaff, A., and Nguyen, G. (1997). A nonaversive approach to reducing hospital absconding in a head-injured adolescent boy. Brain Injury 11, 217-277.
Manchester, D., Hodgkinson, A., and Casey, T. (1997). Prolonged, severe behavioural disturbance following TBI: What can be done? Brain Injury 11, 605-617.
Tate, R.L. (1987). Behaviour management techniques for organic psychosocial deficit incurred by severe head injury. Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 19, 19-24.
Tate, R.L. (1987). Issues in the management of behaviour disturbance as a consequence of severe head injury. Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 19, 13-18.
Other Publications
Simpson, G.K. (1995). Introduction to case management. In: Strettles B, Simpson GK, Mead D
eds. Head Injury Training Kit. Department of Health, Housing and Community Services,
Canberra.
Peer Reiewed Journal Articles
Simpson, G.K., Mohr, R., and Redman, A. (2000) Cultural variations in
the understanding of brain injury and brain injury rehabilitation. Brain Injury
14,
125-140
Conference Proceedings
Simpson GK. (1997) Cultural variations in the understanding of traumatic brain injury:
Challenges for service provision. Conference proceedings. Social Work influencing
outcomes. 25th AASW National Conference, Canberra, 596-601.
Books/Chapters
Anderson,
M., Simpson, G.K., Mok, M., and Parmenter, T. A contemporary model of stress for
understanding family functioning and the psychological distress in relatives of
people with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). In: K.V. Oxington (Ed.).
Psychology of Stress, Volume 2. Nova
Publishers: New York.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Franklin, J., Foreman, M., Kyriakou, A., and Sarnovski, J. (1998). Awareness of
psychologists' qualifications, professional associations, and registration amongst General
Medical Practitioners, Psychologists and their clients. Australian Psychologist
33(3),
217-222.
Tate, R.L. (In press) Impact of pre-injury factors on outcome after severe traumatic brain injury: Does post-traumatic personality change represent an exacerbation of pre-morbid traits?. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.
Tate, R.L., McDonald, S., and Lulham, J.M. (1998). Incidence of hospital-treated traumatic brain injury in an Australian community. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 22, 419-423.
Tate, R.L., Broe, G.A., and Lulham, J.M. (1989). Impairment after severe blunt head injury: the results of a consecutive series of 100 patients. Acta Neurologica Scandinavia 79, 97-100.
Books/Chapters
Broe, G.A., Tate, R.L., Lulham, J.M., Ross, G., and Tregeagle, S. (1981). The
nature and effects of brain damage following severe head injury in young subjects. In: TAR
Dinning & TJ Connelley (Eds.). Head Injuries. An Integrated Approach. (pp. 92-97).
Brisbane: John Wiley & Sons.
Conference Proceedings
La Spina, R., Barson, F., Bates, B., Lulham, J.M., Plumer, K. and Strettles B. (1982). Therapy in
head injury. Broe GA and Tate RL (Eds.), Brain Impairment - Proceedings of the Fifth
Annual Brain Impairment Conference. 68-80. Sydney. The Postgraduate Committee in Medicine
of the University of Sydney.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Metcalf, K. Langdon, R., & Colheart, M. (in press). Models of
confabulation: a critical review and a new framework. Cognition Neuropsychology.
Tate, R.L. & Perdices, M. (2001). Measuring flexibility in patients with frontal lesions. Brain and Cognition 47, 358-362.
Kinch, J. & McDonald, S. (2001). Traumatic brain injury and prospective memory: An examination of the influences of executive function and retrospective memory. Brain Impairment 2, 119-130.
McDonald, S. (2000). Neuropsychological studies of sarcasm. Metaphor and Symbol 15, 85-98.
Palmer, H.M. & McDonald, S. (2000). The role of frontal and temporal lobe processes in prospective remembering. Brain and Cognition 44, 103-107.
Tate, R.L. (1999). Executive dysfunction and characterological changes after traumatic brain injury: two sides of the same coin? Cortex 35, 39-55.
McDonald, S. & Pearce, S. (1998). Requests that overcome listener reluctance: Impairment associated with executive dysfunction in brain injury. Brain and Language 61, 88-104.
Tate, R.L., Perdices, M., and Maggiotto, S. (1998). Stability of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and the determination of reliability of change in scores. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 12, 348-357.
Tate, R.L. (1997). Beyond one-bun, two-shoe: Recent advances in the rehabilitation of acquired memory disorders. Brain Injury 11, 907-918.
McDonald, S. (1996) Hypothesis testing in neuropsychology in context: Another response to the neuropsychology debate. Australian Psychologist 31, 73-75.
Tate, R.L., Fenelon, B., Manning, M.L., and Hunter, M. (1991). Patterns of neuropsychological impairment after severe blunt head injury. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 179, 117-126.
Bennett-Levy, J.M. (1984). Long-term effects of severe closed head injury on memory: evidence from a consecutive series of young adults. Acta Neurologica Scandanavia 70, 285-298.
Books/Chapters
Tate, R.L. (In Press). Emotional and social consequences of memory disorders. In: AD
Baddeley, BA Wilson and MD Kopelman (Eds.). Handbook of memory disorders. 2nd
ed.
Conference Proceedings/Abstracts
Tate, R.L., Hodgkinson, A., Veerabangsa, A., and Maggiotto S. (1996). Measuring psychosocial outcome
after traumatic brain injury. The reliability and validity of a new scale. In: J Ponsford,
P Snow and V Anderson. International Perspectives in Traumatic Brain Injury. Proceedings
of the 5th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traumatic Brain
Injury and the 20th Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain
Impairment. (pp. 415-419). Australian Academic Press, ASSBI: Queensland, Australia.
Tate, R.L., Fenelon, B. (1991). Neuropsychological functioning after head injury: The perception of impairments by people with head injury and their relatives. In: WR Levick, BG Frost, M Watson & HP Pfister (Eds.). Brain Impairment. Advances in Applied Research. (pp. 89-97). Newcastle: University of Newcastle.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Woods, K.P. & Karam, D. (1998). Liverpool Hospital Staff perception of Liverpool Brain
Injury Unit. Australasian Journal of Neuroscience Nursing 11 (4), 4-6.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Sabaz, M., Lawson,
J.A., Cairns,
D.R., Duchowny,
M.S., Resnick,
T.J., Dean,
P.M., Bleasel,
A.F., and Bye,
A.M.E.
(2006). The impact of epilepsy surgery on quality of life in children.
Neurology, 66, 557-561.
Winstanley, J., Simpson,
G.K., Tate, R.L., and Miles, B. (2004). Early indicators and causal factors of
psychological distress in relatives during rehabilitation following severe TBI:
findings from the Brain Injury Outcomes Study. Journal of Head Trauma
Rehabilitation.
Tate, R.L., Pfaff, A., Veerabangsa, A., and Hodgkinson, A. (2004). Measuring psychosocial recovery after brain injury: Change versus competency. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 85, 538-545.
Tate, R.L., Hodgkinson, A., Veerabangsa, A., and Maggiotto S. (1999). Measuring psychosocial recovery after traumatic brain injury: Psychometric properties of a new scale. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 14(6), 543-558.
Tate, R.L. (1998). "It is not only the kind of injury that matters, but the kind of head". The contribution of premorbid psychosocial factors to rehabilitation outcomes after severe traumatic brain injury. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 8(1),1-18.
Tate, R.L., Lulham, J.M., Broe, G.A., Strettles, B., and Pfaff, A. (1989). Psychosocial outcome for the survivors of severe blunt head injury: the results from a consecutive series of 100 patients. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 52, 1128-1134.
Conference Proceedings
Tate, R.L., Maggiotto, S., Henry, K., Chan, T., Ward, W., Gilroy, R., and Turner, L. (1999). Measuring
changes in psychosocial recovery after traumatic brain injury. In: B Murdoch, D Theodoros
and E Ward (Eds.) Brain Impairment and Rehabilitation. Proceedings of the 21st Annual
Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment. (pp. 137-139).
Australian Academic Press, ASSBI: Bowen Hills, Qld.
Tate, R.L., Hodgkinson, A., Veerabangsa, A., and Maggiotto, S. (1996). Measuring psychosocial outcome after traumatic brain injury. The reliability and validity of a new scale. In: J Ponsford, P Snow and V Anderson. International Perspectives in Traumatic Brain Injury. Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traumatic Brain Injury and the 20th Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment. (pp. 415-419). Australian Academic Press, ASSBI: Queensland, Australia.
Tate, R.L., Fenelon, B. (1989). Premorbid personality, posttraumatic personality change and outcome after severe blunt head injury. In: RD Harris, RJ Burns & RJ Rees. (Eds.). Recovery from Brain Damage: Expectations, Needs and Processes. (pp. 82-94). Adelaide: Institute for the Study of Learning Difficulties.
Tate, R.L., Lulham, J.M., and Strettles, B. (1982). Severe Head Injury: outcome, impact and adjustment. In GA Broe and RL Tate (Eds.), Brain Impairment - Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Brain Impairment Conference. 81-91. Sydney. The Postgraduate Committee in Medicine of the University of Sydney.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Moseley, A.M., Lanzarone, S., Bosman, J.M., van Loo, M.A., de Brie, R.A., and
Hassett, L. (2004). Ecological validity of walking speed assessment after
traumatic brain injury: a pilot study. Journal of Head Trauma and Rehabilitation
19, 341-348.
van Loo, M.A., Moseley, A.M., Bosman, J.M., de Brie, R.A., and Hassett, L. (2004). Test-re-test reliability of walking speed, step length and step width measurement after traumatic brain injury: a pilot study. Brain Injury 18, 1041-1048.
van Loo, M.A., Moseley, A.M., Bosman, J.M., de Brie, R.A., and Hassett, L. (2003). Inter-rater reliability and concurrent validity of step length and step width measurement after traumatic brain injury. Disability and Rehabilitation 25, 1195-1200.
van Loo, M.A., Moseley, A.M., Bosman, J.M., de Brie, R.A., and Hassett, L. (2003). Inter-rater reliability and concurrent validity of walking speed measurement after traumatic brain injury. Clinical Rehabilitation 17, 775-779.
Moseley, A. (1997). The effect of casting combined with stretching on passive ankle dorsiflexion in adults with traumatic head injuries. Physical Therapy 77, 240-247.
Herbert, R., Moore, S., Moseley, A., Schurr, K., and Wales, A. (1993). Making inferences about muscle forces from clinical observations. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 39(3), 195-202.
Moore, S., Schurr, K., Wales, A., Moseley, A. and Herbert, R. (1993). Observation and analysis of hemiplegic gait: swing phase. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 39(4), 271-278.
Moseley, A.M. (1993). The effect of a regimen of casting and prolonged stretching on passive ankle flexion in traumatic head injured adults. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 9, 215-221.
Moseley, A., Wales, A., Herbert, R., Schurr, K., and Moor, S. (1993). Observation and analysis of hemiplegic gait: stance phase. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 39(4), 259-267.
Moseley, A. & Adams, R. (1991). Measurement of passive ankle dorsiflexion. Procedure and reliability. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 37, 175-181.
Lee, M., Moseley, A., and Refshaugee, K. (1990). The effect of feedback on the learning of a vertebral joint mobilisation skill. Physical Therapy 70(2), 97-104.
Ada, L. & Scott, D. (1980). The use of inhibitory weight-bearing plasters to increase movement in the presence of spasticity. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 26, 57-61.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Tate, R.L., Perdices, M., Pfaff, A., and Jurjevic, L. (2001). Predicting duration of posttraumatic
amnesia (PTA) from early PTA measurements. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.
16,
525-542.
Tate, R.L., Pfaff, A., and Jurjevic, L. (2000). Resolution of disorientation and amnesia during posttraumatic amnesia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 68, 178-185.
Tate, R.L. & Pfaff, A. (2000). Problems and pitfalls in the assessment of posttraumatic amnesia. Brain Impairment 1 (2), 116-129.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Foster, M., Kuipers, P., Simpson, G.K., Kendall, M., and
Hanna, J. (2005). An organizational perspective on goal setting in
community-based brain injury rehabilitation. Disability and Rehabilitation 27,
901-910.
Tate, R.L., Broe, A., Cameron, I.D., Hodgkinson, A., and Soo, C.A. (2005). Pre-injury, injury and early post-injury predictors of long-term functional and psychosocial recovery after severe traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment 6 (2), 75-89.
Tate, R.L., Strettles, B., and Osoteo, T. (2004). The clinical practice of a community rehabilitation team for people with acquired brain injury. Brain Impairment 5, 81-92.
Simspon, G.K., Secheny, T., Lane-Brown, A., Strettles, B., Ferry, K., and Phillips, J. (2004). Postacute rehabilitation for people with traumatic brain injury: A model description and evaluation of the Liverpool Hospital Transitional Living program. Brain Impairment 5, 67-80.
Books/Chapters
Tate, R.L., Strettles, B., and Osoteo, T. (2003). Enhancing outcomes after traumatic brain injury: A
social rehabilitation approach. In: Wilson BA (ed). Neuropsychological Rehabilitation:
Theory & Practice. (pp. 139-169). Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets and
Zeitlinger.
Tate, R.L. (1991). Impairments after severe blunt head injury: Their consequences for rehabilitation and psychosocial reintegration. In: WR Levick, BG Frost, M Watson, HP Pfister (Eds.). Brain Impairment. Advances in Applied Research.(pp. 219-227). Newcastle: University of Newcastle.
Conference Proceedings
Broe, G,A., Strettles, B., Winzar, L., Devery, M., Jones, M., Costa,
L,, Creswick, C., Lulham, J., and Tate, R.L. (1984). Future priorities in the extended care of the severe head injured. In: B.
Fenelon & HP Pfister (Eds.). Brain Impairment. Proceedings of the 1983 Brain
Impairment Conference. (pp. 47-55). Newcastle: Australian Society for the Study of Brain
Impairment.
Devery, M., Strettles, B., Tate, R., Broe, G.A., Winzar, L., Costa, L., Creswick, C., and Jones, M. (1984). A system of extended care for persons with severe head injury. In: B. Fenelon & HP Pfister (Eds.). Brain Impairment. Proceedings of the 1983 Brain Impairment Conference. (pp. 37-45). Newcastle: Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment.
Mallett, L., Bridge, P., Plumer, K., Carey, J., Scott, D., Walsh, C., Warbutron, K., Hope, B., Jack, D., Jones, C., Costa, L., Tate, R.L., and Broe, G.A. (1984). Integrated rehabilitation for the severe head injured: A new approach. In: B. Fenelon & HP Pfister (Eds.). Brain Impairment. Proceedings of the 1983 Brain Impairment Conference. (pp. 25-35). Newcastle: Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment.
Tate, R.L. (1984). The nature, management and rehabilitation of psychosocial deficits as a consequence of brain damage following severe head injury. In: B. Fenelon & HP Pfister (Eds.). Brain Impairment. Proceedings of the 1983 Brain Impairment Conference. (pp. 11-25). Newcastle: Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment.
Tate, R.L., Lulham, J.M., Broe, G.A. (1982). Rehabilitation of brain-damaged young adults following severe head injury. In: JF Garrett (Ed.). Australian Approaches to Rehabilitation in Neurotrauma and Spinal Cord Injury. (pp. 20-31). New York: World Rehabilitation Fund.Conference Proceedings
Broe, G.A., Lulham, J.M., Strettles, B., Tate, R.L., Walsh, C.A., Ross, G.A. (1982). The concept of head injury rehabilitation. In: GA Broe & RL Tate (Eds.). Brain Impairment. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Brain Impairment Conference. (pp. 59-68). Sydney: Postgraduate Committee in Medicine, University of Sydney.
Other publications
Shepherd, B. & Strettles, B. (1999). Getting It All Together, A kit for daily living when you
have a brain injury. Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, Sydney.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Hodgkinson, A., Veerabangsa, A., Drane, D. and McCluskey, A. (2000). Service utilisation
following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 15 (6), 1208-1226
Conference Proceedings/Abstracts
Moseley, A. & Rotem, W. (1995). Establishing standards for the provision of brain injury
services. Brain Injury, 9(4): 355-364. Conference Proceedings.
Strettles, B. (1986). "Sorry - you don't fit the guidelines!" - the funding merry-go-round. In B Strettles (Ed.), Proceedings of the First National Headway Conference. 72-82. Sydney. Headway.
Devery, M., Strettles, B., Tate, R.L., Broe, G.A., Winzar, L., Costa, L., Creswick, C., and Jones, M. (1984). A system of extended care for persons with severe head injury. In B Fenelon and HP Pfister (Eds.), Brain Impairment - Proceedings of the 1983 Brain Impairment Conference. 37-45. Newcastle. Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Simpson, G.K., Long E. (2004). An evaluation of sex education and information
resources and their provision to adults with traumatic brain injury. Journal of
Head Trauma Rehabilitation 19, 413-427.
Simpson, G.K., McCann, B., and Lowy, M. (2003) Treatment of premature ejaculation after traumatic brain injury: A case report. Brain Injury 17, 723-729.
Simpson, G.K. (2001). Addressing the sexual concerns of persons with traumatic brain injury in rehabilitation settings: A framework for action. Brain Impairment 2(2), 97-108.
Other Publications
Simpson GK. (2003) You and Me. An education program about sex and sexuality after
traumatic brain injury. (2nd ed.) South Western Sydney Area Health Service, Sydney.
Simpson GK. (2003) You and Me. A guide to sex and sexuality after traumatic brain injury. (2nd ed.) South Western Sydney Area Health Service, Sydney. (Booklet)
Orchison R, Simpson GK. (1995) Sexuality after traumatic brain injury. In: Strettles B, Simpson GK, Mead D eds. Head Injury Training Kit. Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Canberra.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Simpson GK, Simons M, McFadyen M. (2002) The challenges of a hidden disability: Social
work practice in the field of traumatic brain injury. Australian Social Work 55
(1): 24-37
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Togher, L. (2001). Discourse sampling in the 21st
century, Journal of Communication Disorders. 34 (1/2), 131-150.
Turkstra, L., McDonald, S. and DePompei, R. (2001). Social information processing in adolescents: Data from normally-developing adolescents and preliminary data from their peers with traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 16, 469-483.
McDonald, S. (2000). Editorial: Putting communication deficits in context after traumatic brain injury. Special edition: Advances in understanding communication disorders in traumatic brain injury. Aphasiology 14, 339-348.
McDonald, S. (2000). Exploring the cognitive basis of right hemisphere language disorders. Brain and Language 75, 82-107.
Togher, L. (2000a). Giving information: The importance of context on communicative opportunity for people with traumatic brain injury. Aphasiology 14, 365-390.
Togher, L. (2000b). Discourse sampling with people with neurogenic communication disorders: an evolving science. Journal of Neurolinguistics. 13, 260-264.
Togher, L., McDonald, S., Code, C and Grant, S. (2000). Can training communication partners of people with TBI make a difference? Brain Impairment 1 (1), 58.
Togher, L. & Hand, L. (1999). The macrostructure of the interview: Are traumatic brain injury interactions structured differently to control interactions? Aphasiology 13, 709-723.
McDonald, S. and Turkstra, L. (1998). Adolescents with traumatic brain injury: Issues in the assessment of pragmatic language Clinical Linguistics and Phoenetics 12, 237-248.
Pearce, S., McDonald, S. and Coltheart, M. (1998). Ability to process ambiguous advertisements after frontal lobe damage. Brain and Cognition 38, 150-164.
Togher L. & Hand L. (1998). Use of Politeness Markers with Different Communication Partners: An Investigation of Five Subjects with Traumatic Brain Injury. Aphasiology 12 (7/8), 755-770.
McDonald, S. (1997). How is sarcasm understood? Clues from studies of brain damage. Australian Journal of Comedy 3, 112-119.
Togher L. (1997). Operationalizing Discourse Therapy. Aphasiology 11(6), 621 - 625.
Togher L., Hand L. and Code C. (1997). Analysing discourse in the traumatic brain injury population: Telephone interactions with different communication partners. Brain Injury. 11(3), 169-189.
Togher L., Hand L. and Code C. (1997). Measuring service encounters with the traumatic brain injury population. Aphasiology 11 (4-5), 491-504.
McDonald, S. and Pearce, S. (1996). Clinical insights into pragmatic language theory: The case of sarcasm. Brain and Languag. 53, 81-104.
Togher, L., Hand, L., and Code, C. (1996). A new perspective on the relationship between communication impairment and disempowerment following head injury in information exchanges. Disability and Rehabilitation 18(11), :559-566.
Turkstra, L., McDonald, S. & Kaufman, P. (1996). A test of pragmatic language function in traumatically brain-injured adolescents. Brain Injury 10, 329-345.
Flanagan, S., McDonald, S., and Togher, L. (1995). Evaluating social skills following traumatic brain injury: the BRISS as a clinical tool. Brain Injury 9(4), 321-338.
McDonald, S. (1993). Pragmatic language loss following closed head injury: Inability to meet the informational needs of the listener. Brain and Language 44, 28-46.
McDonald, S. & van Sommers, P. (1993). Differential pragmatic language loss following closed head injury: Ability to negotiate requests. Cognitive Neuropsychology 10, 297-315.
McDonald, S. (1992). Communication disorders following closed head injury: New approaches to assessment and rehabilitation. Brain Injury 6, 283-292.
McDonald, S. (1992) Differential pragmatic language loss following closed head injury: Ability to comprehend conversational implicature. Applied Psycholinguistics 13, 295-312.
Gapes, L.M. & Nagaratanam, N. (1989). Occlusion of the right anterior cerebral artery causing language disturbance in a right handed person. Journal of Neurologic Rehabilitation 3 (2), 101-103.
McDonald, S., & Wales, R. (1986). An investigation of the ability to process inferences in language following right hemisphere brain damage. Brain and Language 29, 68- 80.
Books/Chapters
McDonald, S. (Ed). (2000). Advances in understanding communication disorders after
traumatic brain injury. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Body, R., Perkins, M., and McDonald, S. (1999). Communication and cognition in McDonald, S., Togher, L. & Code, C. (Eds) Communication disorders following traumatic brain injury. Pp 81-112. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
McDonald, S., Togher, L., and Code, C. (Eds.) (1999). Communication disorders following traumatic brain injury. Brain damage, behaviour and cognition series. Hove, UK: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis (UK).
Togher, L., Hand, L., and Code, C. (1999). Exchanges of information in the talk of people with traumatic brain injury. In: Communication disorders following traumatic brain injury. Brain damage, behaviour and cognition series. McDonald, S., Togher, L. and Code, C. (Eds.), (113-145), Hove, UK: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis (UK).
Togher, L., McDonald, S., and Code, C. (1999). Communication problems following traumatic brain Injury. In: Communication disorders following traumatic brain injury. Brain damage, behaviour and cognition series. McDonald, S., Togher, L. and Code, C. (Eds.), (pp. 1-18), Hove, UK: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis (UK).
McDonald, S., Togher, L., and Code, C. (1999). The nature of traumatic brain injury: Basic features and neuropsychological consequences. In: Communication disorders following traumatic brain injury. Brain damage, behaviour and cognition series. McDonald, S., Togher, L. & Code, C. (Eds.), (pp. 19-54), Hove, UK: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis (UK).
McDonald, S. (1998). Communication and language disturbances following traumatic brain injury. In B. Stemmer & H. A. Whitaker (Eds) Handbook of Neurolinguistics. (pp 487 – 495), San Diego: Academic Press.
Conference Proceedings/Abstracts
Flanagan, S., McDonald, S., Rollins, J. & Hodgkinson, A. (1999). Social perception
ability following traumatic brain injury In Murdoch, B., Theodoros, D., & Ward, E.
(Eds) Brain Impairment and rehabilitation: A national perspective. Proceedings of the 21st
Annual Brain Impairment Conference, Brisbane, 1997. Bowen Hills, Queensland: Australian
Academic Press on behalf of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, pp.
59-64.
Togher, L. & Hand, L. (in press). The macrostructure of the interview: Are traumatic brain injury interactions structured differently to control interactions? Aphasiology, (Special issue: Proceedings of the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Asheville, North Carolina, USA June 1998).
McDonald, S. & Pearce, S. (1996) Executive impairment and communication skills: The capacity to make requests that overcome listener reluctance In Ponsford, J., Snow, P. & Anderson, V. (Eds) International perspectives in traumatic brain injury. Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traumatic Brain Injury and the 20th Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, Melbourne, Australia, 1996. Australian Academic Press on behalf of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment: Melbourne, pp 272-275.
Flanagan, S., McDonald, S., and Togher L. (1995) A review of remediation techniques for social skills deficits following traumatic brain injury. Abstracts presented at the 2nd INS Pacific Rim conference. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 1, 319.
McDonald, S. (1995). Why do patients with frontal lobe impairment fail to understand sarcasm: An investigation of inference and attitude. In J. Fourez and N. Page (Eds) Treatment Issues and Long term outcomes: The proceedings of the 18th Annual Brain Impairment Conference, Hobart, Australia, 1994. Bowen Hills, Queensland: Australian Academic Press on behalf of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment. Pp 59-64.
Palmer, H. & McDonald, S. (1995). The clinical assessment of prospective remembering. In J. Fourez and N. Page (Eds) Treatment Issues and Long term outcomes: The proceedings of the 18th Annual Brain Impairment Conference, Hobart, Australia, 1994. Bowen Hills Queensland: Australian Academic Press on behalf of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, pp 93-98.
Flanagan, S., McDonald, S. and Togher, L. (1995). Assessing social skills following traumatic brain injury. In J. Fourez and N. Page (Eds) Treatment Issues and Long term outcomes: The proceedings of the 18th Annual Brain Impairment Conference, Hobart, Australia, 1994. Bowen Hills, Queensland: Australian Academic Press on behalf of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment: Melbourne, pp 31-36.
Other publications
Strettles, B., Simpson, G.K., and Mead, D. (1995). Head Injury Information Kit. Department of
Health, Housing and Community Services, Canberra.
Other publications
McFadyen, M. & Griffiths, M. (1998). Alcohol related brain damage (ARBD) in Lampton, B.,
Meet Dementia, The Bad Hawk that Steals, Alzheimers Association (SA) Inc. and Aboriginal
Drug and Alcohol Council (SA) Inc.
Conference Proceedings
McFadyen, M. (1998). Substance or cognition: What is the basis of the problem? NSW Aged
Care Assessment Teams' Conference, Sydney, November 25-26.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Simpson, G.K. & Tate, R.L.
(2005). Clinical features of suicide attempts after TBI. The Journal of Nervous
and Mental Disease 193, 680-685.
Simpson, G.K., Winstanly, J., and Bertapelle, T. (2003). Evaluation of a suicide prevention training workshop for staff working in the field of traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 18 (5), 445-456.
Simpson, G.K. & Tate, R.L. (2002). Suicidality after traumatic brain injury: Demographic, injury and clinical correlates. Psychological Medicine 32, 687-697
Tate, R.L., Simpson, G.K., Flanagan, S., and Coffey, M. (1997). Completed suicide after traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 12 (6), 16-28
Other publications
Simpson, G.K. (2001). Suicide prevention after traumatic brain injury: A resource manual.
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, Sydney. Conference Proceedings
Simpson, G.K. & Tate, R. (1999) Suicidality after traumatic brain injury. In: Promoting Inclusion - Redressing Exclusion. Joint conference of AASW , IFSW, APASWE and AASWWE, Brisbane, 232-237.
Strettles, B., Bush, M., Simpson, G., & Gillett, L. (2005). Forced Choices: Accommodation in NSW for adults with high care needs after traumatic brain injury. Policy report for the Motor Accidents Authority of NSW.
Hodgkinson, A., Bush, M., Strettles, B., McFadyen, M., Hopman, K., Simpson, G., and Tandon, G. (2004). “This is a place for dying, not a place for living” - The plight of young people with acquired brain injury in nursing homes. Submission to the Commonwealth Government Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into Aged Care. Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit: Sydney Australia.
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