Dr Amanda Wood PhD MPsych

Senior Lecturer
Director, Birmingham University Imaging Centre

School of Psychology

Amanda Wood

Contact details

Telephone +44 0121 414 3338

Email a.g.wood@bham.ac.uk

School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Qualifications

BSc(Hons) The University of Melbourne, Australia
PhD The University of Melbourne, Australia
MPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology), The University of Melbourne

Teaching

Course Director, M.Res (Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience) - including module lead Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience I, Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience II. 

Postgraduate supervision

UK students: 

Helen Ruddock - PhD candidate, UoB

Daria Makarova - PhD candidate, UoB

 

Australian students:

Sophia Halley - DPsych(Clinical Psychology) candidate, Monash University

Penelope Hartmann - PhD candidate, Monash University

Alissandra McIlroy - MPsych/PhD candidate - University of Melbourne

Research

Dr Wood's research combines neuropsychology and brain imaging. Current projects include:
1) Long-term outcomes of fetal exposure to antiepileptic drugs. Australia-wide cognitive follow up studies, in collaboration with the Australian Pregnancy Register for women with epilepsy and allied disorders.
2) Functional imaging in children.
This program aims to understand the emergence of skills in relation to neural development.
3) "BUBS" - The Birmingham University Babies Study. This study aims to characterise early biomarkers of poor outcomes in children exposed to compromised intrauterine environments.

Other activities

Co-ordinator of ‘Neurosciences in Schools’, part of Brain Awareness Week, UoB, 2011
Member, Executive Committee and Scientific Advisory Board, Australian Pregnancy Register for Women with Epilepsy and Allied Disorders, 2009-present
Member, Doctor of Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology) Advisory Board, Monash University 2007 – 2010

Publications

Selected recent publications: 

Anderson VA., Spencer-Smith, M., Wood, AG (2011) Do children’s brains recover better? Plasticity, reorganisation and neurobehavioral change after early brain insult, Brain, 134, 2197-2221.

Nadebaum, C., Anderson, VA., Vajda, F., Reutens, DC., Barton, S., & Wood, AG. (2011) Language Skills of School-Aged Children Prenatally Exposed to Antiepileptic Drugs, Neurology, 76, 719-726.

Adamson, CL., Wood, AG., Chen, J., Barton, S., Reutens, DC., Pantelis, C., Velakoulis, D., Walterfang, M. (2011) Thickness Profile Generation for the Corpus Callosum Using Laplace’s Equation. Human Brain Mapping, DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21174



Nadebaum,C Anderson,VA, Vajda,F, Reutens,DC, Barton,S and Wood, AG. (2011) The Australian Brain, Cognition and Antiepileptic Drugs in pregnancy Study: IQ in school-aged children exposed to sodium valproate and polytherapy, JINS, 17, 133-142.

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