Dr Nikki-Anne Wilson

Dr Nikki-Anne Wilson

Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD (Science) | Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney

BSciPsych (Hons, First) | Macquarie University

BAppSci(Psych) With Distinction, | Deakin University

Science
School of Psychology

Dr Nikki-Anne Wilson is a social-cognition, cognitive health, and dementia Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on the Resilient Minds (ReMind) study. 

  • Journal articles | 2024
    Wilson NA; Ahmed R; Piguet O; Irish M, 2024, 'Disrupted social perception in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease – Associated cognitive processes and clinical implications', Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2024.122902
    Journal articles | 2023
    Walsh S; Govia I; Peters R; Richard E; Stephan BCM; Wilson NA; Wallace L; Anstey KJ; Brayne C, 2023, 'Authors’ response to: A new dementia prevention approach requires new language', Alzheimer's and Dementia, 19, pp. 3750 - 3751, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.13364
    Journal articles | 2023
    Walsh S; Govia I; Peters R; Richard E; Stephan BCM; Wilson NA; Wallace L; Anstey KJ; Brayne C, 2023, 'What would a population-level approach to dementia risk reduction look like, and how would it work?', Alzheimer's and Dementia, 19, pp. 3203 - 3209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.12985
    Journal articles | 2023
    Wilson N-A; Anstey KJ, 2023, 'Dementia Prevention and Individual and Socioeconomic Barriers: Avoiding “Lifestyle” Stigma', The Gerontologist, 64, pp. gnad130 - gnad130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad130
    Journal articles | 2023
    Wilson NA; Peters R; Lautenschlager NT; Anstey KJ; Wilson N-A, 2023, 'Testing times for dementia: a community survey identifying contemporary barriers to risk reduction and screening', Alzheimer's Research and Therapy, 15, pp. 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13195-023-01219-4
    Journal articles | 2022
    Wilson NA; Ahmed RM; Piguet O; Irish M, 2022, 'Putting the pieces together: Mental construction of semantically congruent and incongruent scenes in dementia', Brain Sciences, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12010020
    Journal articles | 2020
    Wilson NA; Ahmed RM; Hodges JR; Piguet O; Irish M, 2020, 'Constructing the social world: Impaired capacity for social simulation in dementia', Cognition, 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104321
    Journal articles | 2020
    Wilson NA; Ramanan S; Roquet D; Goldberg ZL; Hodges JR; Piguet O; Irish M, 2020, 'Scene construction impairments in frontotemporal dementia: Evidence for a primary hippocampal contribution', Neuropsychologia, 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107327
    Journal articles | 2017
    Irish M; Mothakunnel A; Dermody N; Wilson NA; Hodges JR; Piguet O, 2017, 'Damage to right medial temporal structures disrupts the capacity for scene construction—a case study', Hippocampus, 27, pp. 635 - 641, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22722
    Journal articles | 2015
    Wilson NA; Batchelor J, 2015, 'Examining Rey Complex Figure Test organization in healthy adults', Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 37, pp. 1052 - 1061, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2015.1075473

Ageing Futures Institute, Seed Funding Grant [AUD $30,000]

Australian Association of Gerontology, RM Gibson Research Grant [AUD $6,815]

 

 

 

 

2023 Scholarship Recipient, Science Meets Parliament, Science & Technology Australia.

2022 Teresa Anderson Carer’s Scholarship, Franklin Women.

2022 Sole recipient, Graduate Medal for Research Excellence, The University of Sydney.

2021 Postgraduate Research Prize for Leadership, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney.

2020 Brain and Mind Centre Award for Research Excellence and Impact.

2020 Second place, The University of Sydney, Three Minute Thesis Final. 

2020 First place, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Three Minute Thesis Final.

2019 School of Psychology Publication Prize, The University of Sydney.

2018 Best poster presentation, Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference.

2018 Best DataBlitz presentation, Sydney Postgraduate Psychology Conference.

2017 Finalist, The University of Sydney, Three Minute Thesis competition.

2017 First place, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Three Minute Thesis Final.

2014 Deakin University, School of Psychology, Head of School Award.

2011 Pearson Award, Academic Excellence in Anatomy and Physiology.