Dr Audrey McKinlay
Position
Postdoctoral Fellow
Congraulations to Audrey on receiving a Fullbright New Zealand Travel Award. Audrey will head to the United States in early March where she will discuss aspects of her research at two conferences – the International Brain Injury Association’s (IBIA) 8th World Congress and the inaugural International Paediatric Brain Injury Society (IPBIS) conference. Both are being held in Washington DC from 10 to 14 March. more
Qualifications
BA (Massey)
MA(Hons), DipClinPsyc, PhD (Cant)
Room
Room: 706
Contact Details:
Phone: +64 3 3642 987 ext 7885
Internal Phone: 7885
Email: audrey.mckinlay@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Psychology
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Profile
In 2001 I completed an MA (Hons) investigating the long term outcomes of traumatic brain injury in early childhood. In 2007 I completed a PhD on the neuropsychiatric, cognitive and language correlates of Parkinson’s disease without dementia. Findings from these studies have been published in leading journals (as listed below). I am currently working part-time at Youth Specialty Services as a clinical psychologist and at the University of Canterbury as a Research Associate.
Research Interests
My research interests are in the area of developmental neuropsychology, and include defining mild cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson’s disease (an ongoing project that I am conducting) and the outcomes of traumatic brain injury in childhood. I am also interested in cognitive decline associated with normal and abnormal aging.
As part of my current research, I am investigating the adult outcomes following mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury in early childhood. For this project I am collaborating with John Horwood and Professor David Fergusson at the Christchurch Health and Development Study, and Randolph Grace and Derek Roger from the University of Canterbury. As part of this study we will also be exploring predictive factors and early intervention strategies to reduce long-term disability. This study has been funded by a grant from the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation.
Publications
McKinlay. A, (Accepted). Trail Making Test. In S. Goldstein & J. Naglieri (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. New York: Springer Publishing Co.
McKinlay. A, (Accepted). Tower Tasks. In S. Goldstein & J. Naglieri (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. New York: Springer Publishing Co.
McKinlay. A, (Accepted). The Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales. In S. Goldstein & J. Naglieri (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. New York: Springer Publishing Co.
McKinlay. A, (Accepted). The Stroop Task. In S. Goldstein & J. Naglieri (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. New York: Springer Publishing Co.
McKinlay, A., Grace, R.C., Horwood, L.J., Fergusson, D.M., MacFarlane, M.R. (Accepted). Long term behavioral outcomes of mild traumatic brain injury. Child Development.
McKinlay, A., Grace, R.C., Kaller, C.P., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Anderson, T.J., Fink, J., Roger, D. (Accepted). Planning deficits in Parkinson’s disease: A comparison of two tower tasks. Applied Neuropsychology.
McKinlay. A, (Accepted). Rey Complex Figure Task. In S. Goldstein & J. Naglieri (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. New York: Springer Publishing Co.
McKinlay, A., Grace, R.C., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Anderson, T., Fink J., Roger, D. (In press). The Effect of Attentional Set-Shifting, Working Memory and Processing Speed on Pragmatic Language Functioning in Parkinson’s disease. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
McKinlay, A., Grace, R.C., Horwood, L.J., Fergusson, D.M., MacFarlane, M.R. (In Press). Adolescent psychiatric symptoms following preschool childhood mild traumatic brain injury. Journal of Trauma.
Johnston, L., Miles, L., McKinlay, A. (2008). The eyes have it! Or do they?: Some questions regarding the utility of the Eyes Test as a measure of social-cognitive impairment. Australian Journal of Psychology., 60(3), 135–141.
McKinlay, A., Grace, R.C., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Anderson, T., Fink J., Roger, D. (2008,). Neuropsychiatric problems in Parkinson’s disease: comparisons between self and significant other report. Aging and Mental Health, 5, 649-655.
McKinlay, A., Grace, R.C., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Anderson, T., Fink J., Roger, D. (2008). The Accuracy of the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS - Section 1) as a Screening Measure for Depression. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 14, 170-172.
McKinlay, A., Grace, R.C., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Anderson, T., Fink J., Roger, D. (2008). A profile of neuropsychiatric problems and their relationship to quality of life for Parkinson’s disease patients without dementia. Parkinsonism and Related Disorder, 12, 37-42.
McKinlay, A., Grace, R.C., Horwood, L.J., Fergusson, D.M., Ridder, E.M., MacFarlane, M.R. (2008). Prevalence of traumatic brain injury among children, adolescents, and young adults: prospective evidence from a birth cohort. Brain Injury, 22(2), 175-181.
McKinlay, A., Kaller, C.P., Grace, R.C., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Anderson, T.J., Fink, J., Roger, D. (2008). Planning in Parkinson’s Disease: A Matter of Problem Structure? Neuropsychologia, 46, 384-389.
McKinlay, A., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Horwood, J.L., & Fergusson, D. M. (2002). Long term psychosocial outcomes after mild head injury in early childhood. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 73, 281-288. (Editors choice September & October 2002) (Available on-line).
Roberts, A., McKinlay, A., Moir, J., & Williams, T. (2001). Intrusive pedagogies: real education or ‘reality education’. The Australia New Zealand Student Services Association Inc.
Published Abstracts from Conference Presentations
McKinlay, A., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Grace, R.C., Roger, D. (2008). The identification of mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease. Verbal presentation at the 31st annual conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (Abstract) Brain Impairment.
McKinlay A., Grace, R.C., Fergusson, D.M., Horwood, J.L. (2008). Prevalence and prediction of brain injury in children and young adults. Verbal presentation at the 7th World Congress on Brain Injury. (Abstract) Brain Injury.
McKinlay, A., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Horwood, J. L., & Fergusson, D. M. (2005). Psychiatric Outcomes following Mild Head Injury in Childhood are Related to Age at Injury and Injury Severity. Verbal presentation at the 6th World Congress on Brain Injury. (Abstract), Melbourne Australia, Brain Injury.
McKinlay, A., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Anderson, T.J., Fink, J.N., & Barrett, P. (2004). The two towers: Parkinson’s disease and cognition. Poster presentation at the Eighth International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Rome, Italy, Movement Disorder, 19, S173.
McKinlay, A., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Horwood, J. L., & Fergusson, D. M. (2004). Adverse outcomes associated with childhood mild head injury continue into adulthood: A 25-year follow-up of a birth cohort. (Abstract). Verbal presentation, annual conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, Brisbane, Australia. Brain Impaiurment, 5, 81.
McKinlay, A., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Horwood, J. L., & Fergusson, D. (2003). M. Pre-injury and other non-specific factors do not explain adverse psychosocial development associated with childhood mild head injury. Verbal presentation at the 5th World Congress on Brain Injury, Stockholm Sweden. (Abstract) Brain Injury, 17(1), pg 39.
McKinlay, A., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Horwood, J.L., & Fergusson, D. M. (2003). Long term behavioural, psychiatric and cognitive outcomes following mild head injury in childhood. Brain Impairment, 4, 52. (Abstract – Winning abstract from 2002 ASSBI 25th annual conference republished).
McKinlay, A., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C., Horwood, J. L., & Fergusson, D. M. (2002). Long term outcomes of early childhood head injury. Verbal presentation Proceedings of the International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research, 20. (Abstract).
McKinlay, A., Dalrymple-Alford, J. C., Horwood, J.L., & Fergusson, D. M. (2002). Long term behavioural, psychiatric and cognitive outcomes following mild head injury in childhood. Verbal presentation (Abstract). Brain Impairment, 3, 78.
McKinlay, A., Dalrymple-Alford, J. C., Horwood, J. L., & Fergusson, D. M. (2001). Long term outcomes of mild head injury in early childhood. Poster presentation; Proceedings of 4th World Congress on Brain Injury. Turin, Italy pg 301.