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Dr

Nikki-Anne Wilson


Current Appointments

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Health
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Nikki-Anne completed her PhD as part of the Frontier dementia research group at the Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney.

Her research examined the breakdown of cognition in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and how this relates to the social challenges associated with this form of dementia.

Nikki-Anne’s skills in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology align with her passion to improve clinical outcomes and quality of life for people with dementia.

A passionate science communicator and regular speaker at science outreach events, Nikki-Anne also enjoys participating in school mentoring programmes aiming to encourage students to develop their research skills and pursue science related careers.

  • Brain and Mind Centre award for Research Excellence and Impact (2020)
  • School of Psychology Publication Prize, The University of Sydney (2019)
  • Best Poster Presentation at the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference (2018)
  • Best DataBlitz presentation at the Sydney Postgraduate Psychology Conference

Publications

2024, 20 Nov

Change in visual acuity over a 12-year period predicts cognitive decline in older adults: identifying social engagement as a potential mediator

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1182527198

2024 Jan

Disrupted social perception in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease – Associated cognitive processes and clinical implications

View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2024.122902

2023, 01 Dec

Testing times for dementia: a community survey identifying contemporary barriers to risk reduction and screening

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1157136768

2023 Dec

The effect of baseline and longitudinal cognitive reserve on memory ageing in middle and older age adults over a 12‐year period

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1167335525

2023, 24 Sep

Dementia Prevention and Individual and Socioeconomic Barriers: Avoiding “Lifestyle” Stigma

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1164305543

2023, 01 Aug

Authors’ response to: A new dementia prevention approach requires new language

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1160194460

2023, 01 Jul

What would a population-level approach to dementia risk reduction look like, and how would it work?

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1155386352

2021, 24 Dec

Putting the Pieces Together: Mental Construction of Semantically Congruent and Incongruent Scenes in Dementia

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12010020

2020, 03 Feb

Scene construction impairments in frontotemporal dementia: Evidence for a primary hippocampal contribution

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1123686008

2020

Constructing the social world: Impaired capacity for social simulation in dementia

View full journal-article on http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85084793310&partnerID=MN8TOARS