People

• Neuropsychological assessment of memory, attention and executive functions in the context of brain injury and healthy ageing.
• Cognitive rehabilitation interventions (eg Goal Management Training).
• Functional imaging of the effects of cognitive rehabilitation interventions.
• Treatment of mood disorders after stroke (music based interventions and positive psychotherapy).

Magdalena is a neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist in Psychology at the University of Stirling. Beside Magnetic Resonance, research questions in her lab are answered using brain stimulation (TMS and tDCS) and (mobile) EEG as well as behavioural techniques such as eye-movements and movement kinematics and behavioural lesion studies in neurological patients. Basic science in her lab centres primarily around perception and action ranging from visuomotor function to social neuroscience. Her applied work is on motor rehabilitation and more recently on brain injury diagnostics too. She works collaboratively towards mobile neuroimaging solutions to investigate more real-world cognition. Magdalena is interested in brain plasticity both with regards to cognitive architecture and changes of function in stroke, traumatic brain injury, and abnormal development such as autism. Due to the increasing societal challenge of dementia she wants to contribute to mobilising the neuroscience community to answer perhaps by clarifying the role of plasticity in delaying dementia onset. Magdalena is very interested in collaborating in particular on understanding the normal brain through the study of people with brain damage and work towards evidence-based changes in practice. For details on research activity see www.StirlingBrains.org ; www.MobileCognition.org ; https://sites.google.com/site/magdalenaietswaart/home

Attention

Cognitive Control

Multimodal imaging of cognitive function (EEG/ERP/fMRI)

• Hippocampal atrophy
• Cognitive ageing
• Stroke
• Brain tumours