Grants 2009

 

Successful grants 2009

Our group had a very successful year (2009) in terms of securing more research money for our frontotemporal dementia research. Here a few of our 2009 grant successes by members of the group:

  •  ARC Discovery Project Grant. Prefrontal and medial temporal lobe cortices’ interactions to episodic long-term memory.  2010-2012.
  •  NHMRC Project Grant. Progressive aphasia and amyloid deposition: a multidisciplinary approach to improving dementia diagnosis.  Joint with Prof C Rowe and colleagues in Melbourne. 2010-2012.
  • NHMRC Project Grant. The impact of circadian disturbances on sleep quality, cognition and psychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disease.  Joint with Dr S Lewis at Sydney University. 2010-2012.
  •  ARC Discovery Project Grant. Emotion in voice matters: advancing a neural model of auditory emotion perception. Joint with Prof S MacDonald UNSW. 2010-2013. 
  • ARC LIEF (Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities) Grant. State-of-the-art upgrade to multi-transmit multi-receive technology for research dedicated 3 Tesla MRI scanner. 2010.
  • UNSW Early Career Research Grant to Dr Michael Hornberger.  Dissecting behavioural disturbances associated with orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction in frontotemporal dementia and bipolar disorder. 2010-2011