Editorial Board Member - JNND
Sheila Crewther
ProfessorSchool of Psychological Science
Univerity of La Trobe
Australia
BIOGRAPHY:
Professor Crewther began her studies at Melbourne University then moved to the US to complete her PhD in Neuroscience at Caltech under Nobel Prize Winner Professor Roger Sperry. Sheila has professional qualifications in Neuropsychology, Education and Optometry and these underlie her research into the cognitive and behavioural neuroscience of neuroplasticity in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative anomalies. The aim is to use this knowledge to design better behavioural and therapeutic management regimes. Professor Crewther led the Victorian Government Department of Human Services Review and Report ‘Prevalence and services for children 0-6 years of age with ‘Autism Spectrum Disorders in 2002 -2003. This has resulted in substantially increased funding and the initiation of the first state government general assessment plan for those with autism and their families in Australia. She has also led the research that initiated increased Australian optometric focus (2004-2010) on the role of children’s functional vision in reading and learning and in Intellectual Disability.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Behavioural and Molecular Neuroscience
Other Editorial Board Members - JNND
J Vernon Odom
Department of Ophthalmology
West Virginia University
United States
Hongbin Fang
Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics
Georgetown University
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Dominique M. Durand
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosciences
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland
United States
Yuchuan Ding
Department of Neurosurgery
Wayne State University School of Medicine
United States
DEBORAH F GELINAS
Department of Neuro-ophthalmology
Michigan State University
United States
Fredric Austin Gorin
Department of Neurology
University of California
United States
Avner Meoded
NIH/NINDS
United States
Robert H. Rosenwasser
Department of Neurological Surgery
Thomas Jefferson University
United States
William J Winslade
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health
The University of Texas Medical Branch
United States
Kelly Sullivan
Department of Neurology
University of South Florida
United States