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  • 2020 - Gottschalk Medal, Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Muireann Irish is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work is concentrated on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Neurology, and Physiology.

The scientist's research covers several main topics including Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Muireann Irish has authored multiple recent papers, with notable publications including:

  • "Rethinking the episodic-semantic distinction from a gradient perspective," 2020, published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "Understanding the multidimensional cognitive deficits of logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia," 2022, published in Brain
  • "Uncovering the prevalence and neural substrates of anhedonia in frontotemporal dementia," 2021, published in Brain
  • "Establishing two principal dimensions of cognitive variation in logopenic progressive aphasia," 2020, published in Brain Communications
  • "Mind-wandering in Parkinson's disease hallucinations reflects primary visual and default network coupling," 2020, published in Cortex

The venues where Muireann Irish most frequently publishes include Cortex, Brain Communications, Brain Sciences, Journal of Neurology, and Brain.

Frequent collaborators of the scientist include Olivier Piguet, Rebekah M. Ahmed, John R. Hodges, David Foxe, and James R. Burrell.

In 2020, Muireann Irish was awarded the Gottschalk Medal by the Australian Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Considering the role of semantic memory in episodic future thinking: evidence from semantic dementia

    Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Donna Rose Addis;Donna Rose Addis;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet

  • The Pivotal Role of Semantic Memory in Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future

    Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet

  • Investigating the enhancing effect of music on autobiographical memory in mild Alzheimer's disease.

    Muireann Irish;Conal J. Cunningham;J. Bernard Walsh;Davis Coakley

  • From Knowing to Remembering: the Semantic-Episodic distinction

    Louis Renoult;Muireann Irish;Morris Moscovitch;Michael D. Rugg;Michael D. Rugg

  • Profiles of recent autobiographical memory retrieval in semantic dementia, behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia, and Alzheimer's disease.

    M. Irish;M. Hornberger;M. Hornberger;S. Lah;L. Miller;L. Miller

  • Lost in spatial translation - A novel tool to objectively assess spatial disorientation in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

    Sicong Tu;Sicong Tu;Sicong Tu;Stephanie Wong;Stephanie Wong;Stephanie Wong;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish

  • Right anterior temporal lobe dysfunction underlies theory of mind impairments in semantic dementia.

    Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet

  • Common and unique gray matter correlates of episodic memory dysfunction in frontotemporal dementia and alzheimer's disease

    Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Michael Hornberger;Michael Hornberger

  • Frontotemporal Dementia Associated With the C9ORF72 Mutation A Unique Clinical Profile

    Emma Devenney;Emma Devenney;Michael Hornberger;Michael Hornberger;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Eneida Mioshi;Eneida Mioshi

  • Rethinking the Role of the Angular Gyrus in Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future: The Contextual Integration Model.

    Siddharth Ramanan;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish

  • Impaired capacity for autonoetic reliving during autobiographical event recall in mild Alzheimer's disease.

    Muireann Irish;Brian A. Lawlor;Shane M. O'Mara;Robert F. Coen

  • In vivo and post-mortem memory circuit integrity in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

    Michael Hornberger;Michael Hornberger;Stephanie Wong;Rachel Tan;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish

  • Exploring the content and quality of episodic future simulations in semantic dementia.

    Muireann Irish;Donna Rose Addis;Donna Rose Addis;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet

  • Discrete Neural Correlates for the Recognition of Negative Emotions: Insights from Frontotemporal Dementia

    Fiona Kumfor;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet

  • Uncovering the Neural Bases of Cognitive and Affective Empathy Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease and the Behavioral-Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia.

    Nadene Dermody;Nadene Dermody;Stephanie Wong;Stephanie Wong;Rebekah Ahmed;Rebekah Ahmed;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet

  • Impaired capacity for prospection in the dementias – Theoretical and clinical implications

    Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Pascale Piolino;Pascale Piolino

  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia: distinct and overlapping changes in eating behaviour and metabolism

    Rebekah M Ahmed;Rebekah M Ahmed;Rebekah M Ahmed;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet;Glenda M Halliday;Glenda M Halliday

  • Neuronal network disintegration: common pathways linking neurodegenerative diseases

    Rebekah M Ahmed;Rebekah M Ahmed;Emma M Devenney;Emma M Devenney;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Arne Ittner

  • Self-projection and the default network in frontotemporal dementia

    Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges

  • When One Loses Empathy Its Effect on Carers of Patients With Dementia

    Sharpley Hsieh;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Naomi Daveson;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Hodges
John R. Hodges University of Sydney
Olivier Piguet
Olivier Piguet University of Sydney
Michael Hornberger
Michael Hornberger University of East Anglia
Fiona Kumfor
Fiona Kumfor University of Sydney
Claire O'Callaghan
Claire O'Callaghan University of Cambridge
Glenda M. Halliday
Glenda M. Halliday University of Sydney
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna
Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna University of Arizona
Nicola T. Lautenschlager
Nicola T. Lautenschlager University of Melbourne
Greg Savage
Greg Savage Macquarie University
Laurie A. Miller
Laurie A. Miller Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

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