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Overview

Nancy A. Pachana is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with significant contributions also made in related subfields including Health, General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, and Demography.

The topics explored in their work reflect a focus on various aspects of health and aging, notably:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Older Adults Driving Studies
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Health, psychology, and well-being

Their recent scholarly output includes publications across a range of journals, highlighting engagement with multidisciplinary audiences. Notable papers include:

  • "Positive aging benefits of home and community gardening activities: Older adults report enhanced self-esteem, productive endeavours, social engagement and exercise," 2020, SAGE Open Medicine
  • "Prevalence of dementia in the Torres Strait," 2020, Australasian Journal on Ageing
  • "The impact of place and legacy framing on climate action: A lifespan approach," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "A prospective cohort study of prodromal Alzheimer's disease: Prospective Imaging Study of Ageing: Genes, Brain and Behaviour (PISA)," 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • "Cohort Profile: HABITAT-a longitudinal multilevel study of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health and functioning in mid-to-late adulthood," 2020, International Journal of Epidemiology

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • International Psychogeriatrics
  • Clinical Gerontologist
  • Australasian Journal on Ageing
  • Animals
  • International Journal of Audiology

Collaborations are prominent in their career with frequent co-authors such as Jacki Liddle, Perminder S. Sachdev, Dilip V. Jeste, Ruth O'Hara, and Barton W. Palmer, each contributing to multiple joint research projects.

Best Publications

  • Development and validation of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory.

    Nancy A. Pachana;Gerard J. A. Byrne;Helen Siddle;Natasha Koloski

  • Alzheimer and Vascular Dementias and Driving: A Prospective Road and Laboratory Study

    L. J. Fitten;K. M. Perryman;C. J. Wilkinson;R. J. Little

  • Ecological validity in neuropsychological assessment: A case for greater consideration in research with neurologically intact populations

    Donna M. Spooner;Nancy A. Pachana

  • Social support and health‐related quality of life in women with breast cancer: a longitudinal study

    Janni Leung;Nancy A. Pachana;Deirdre McLaughlin

  • Gender differences in social network size and satisfaction in adults in their 70s.

    Deirdre McLaughlin;Dimitrios Vagenas;Nancy A. Pachana;Nelufa Begum

  • The Hazard Perception Ability of Older Drivers

    Mark S. Horswill;Shelby A. Marrington;Cynthia M. McCullough;Joanne Wood

  • Development and validation of a short form of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory – the GAI-SF

    Gerard J. Byrne;Nancy A. Pachana

  • Comparison of neuropsychological functioning in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    Nancy Ann Pachana;Kyle Brauer Boone;Bruce L. Miller;Jeffrey L. Cummings

  • The development and validation of two complementary measures of drivers' hazard perception ability

    Mark Wetton;Mark Horswill;Christopher Hatherly;Joanne Wood

  • Recurrent readmissions in medical patients: a prospective study.

    Alison M Mudge;Karen Kasper;Anne Clair;Helen Redfern

  • Predictors of cognitive decline after chemotherapy in breast cancer patients.

    Katherine J Vearncombe;Margaret I Rolfe;Margaret Wright;Nancy A Pachana

  • The future is here: A review of foresight systems in anxiety and depression

    Beyon Miloyan;Nancy A. Pachana;Thomas Suddendorf

  • Neural basis of confabulation

    D. F. Benson;A. Djenderedjian;Bryan Lee Miller;N. A. Pachana

  • Using Attachment Theory and Social Support Theory to Examine and Measure Pets as Sources of Social Support and Attachment Figures

    Michael Meehan;Bronwyn Massavelli;Nancy Pachana

  • The clinical spectrum of anxiety in Parkinson's disease.

    Nadeeka N.N.W. Dissanayaka;Elizabeth White;John D. O'Sullivan;Rodney Marsh

  • Stigma, seizure frequency and quality of life: The impact of epilepsy in late adulthood

    Deirdre P. McLaughlin;Nancy A. Pachana;Ken Mcfarland

  • Dysprosodic speech following basal ganglia insult: toward a conceptual framework for the study of the cerebral representation of prosody.

    Diana van Lancker Sidtis;Nancy A. Pachana;Jeffrey L. Cummings;John J. Sidtis;John J. Sidtis

  • Frontotemporal dementia versus Alzheimer's disease: Differential cognitive features

    Mario F. Mendez;Monique Cherrier;Kent M. Perryman;Nancy Pachana

  • Depression rating scales in Parkinson's disease: A critical review updating recent literature

    Elizabeth Torbey;Nancy A. Pachana;Nadeeka N.W. Dissanayaka;Nadeeka N.W. Dissanayaka

  • Aging, Mental Health, and Demographic Change:Challenges for Psychotherapists

    Ken Laidlaw;Nancy A. Pachana

  • The Oxford handbook of clinical geropsychology

    Nancy A. Pachana;Ken Laidlaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard J. Byrne
Gerard J. Byrne University of Queensland
Edward Helmes
Edward Helmes James Cook University
Bob G. Knight
Bob G. Knight University of Southern Queensland
Michael S. Humphreys
Michael S. Humphreys University of Queensland
Mark S. Horswill
Mark S. Horswill University of Queensland
Larry W. Thompson
Larry W. Thompson Stanford University
Helen J. Chenery
Helen J. Chenery Bond University
Cindy Gallois
Cindy Gallois University of Queensland
Kate Sofronoff
Kate Sofronoff University of Queensland
Christine Stephens
Christine Stephens Massey University

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