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Overview

Skye McDonald is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of medicine and psychology, with a strong emphasis on epidemiology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and social psychology. Their work contributes extensively to the understanding of traumatic brain injury and associated neurobehavioral conditions.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including traumatic brain injury research, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, neural and behavioral psychology studies, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, cognitive functions and memory, and action observation and synchronization.

McDonald has published several papers in reputable venues, with notable recent works including:

  • The effect of severe traumatic brain injury on social cognition, emotion regulation, and mood (2021, Handbook of Clinical Neurology)
  • Calling on clinicians to get social and emotional (2022, The Clinical Neuropsychologist)

Other frequent publication venues where McDonald has contributed include Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, PsycTESTS Dataset, the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Neuropsychology, and The Clinical Neuropsychologist. Their extensive publishing record in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and PsycTESTS Dataset demonstrates consistent engagement with neuropsychological and clinical assessment topics.

McDonald has collaborated regularly with a number of researchers, including Travis Wearne, Halle Quang, Michaela Filipčíková, Fiona Kumfor, and Michelle Kelly. These collaborations reflect ongoing contributions to fields related to neuropsychology and brain injury.

Best Publications

  • The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement†

    Robyn L. Tate;Michael Perdices;Ulrike Rosenkoetter;William Shadish

  • TASIT: A new clinical tool for assessing social perception after traumatic brain injury.

    Skye McDonald;Sharon Flanagan;Jennifer Rollins;Julianne Kinch

  • Brain activity during simulated deception: an event-related functional magnetic resonance study.

    Daniel D. Langleben;Lee Schroeder;Joseph A. Maldjian;Ruben C. Gur

  • Weak coherence, no theory of mind, or executive dysfunction? Solving the puzzle of pragmatic language disorders

    Ingerith Martin;Skye McDonald

  • Rating the methodological quality of single-subject designs and n-of-1 trials: Introducing the Single-Case Experimental Design (SCED) Scale

    Robyn L Tate;Skye McDonald;Michael Perdices;Leanne Togher

  • Social perception deficits after traumatic brain injury: interaction between emotion recognition, mentalizing ability, and social communication.

    Skye McDonald;Sharon Flanagan

  • Reliability and validity of The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT): a clinical test of social perception.

    Skye McDonald;Cristina Bornhofen;David Shum;Esther Long

  • Revision of a method quality rating scale for single-case experimental designs and n-of-1 trials: The 15-item Risk of Bias in N-of-1 Trials (RoBiNT) Scale

    Robyn L Tate;Michael Perdices;Ulrike Rosenkoetter;Donna Wakim

  • Cognitive impairment among methadone maintenance patients

    Shane Darke;Jamie Sims;Skye McDonald;Wendy Wickes

  • Theory of mind after traumatic brain injury

    Helen Bibby;Skye McDonald

  • An exploration of causes of non-literal language problems in individuals with Asperger Syndrome.

    Ingerith Martin;Skye McDonald

  • Impairments in Social Cognition Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

    Skye McDonald

  • The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016: Explanation and elaboration.

    Robyn L. Tate;Michael Perdices;Ulrike Rosenkoetter;Skye McDonald

  • Clinical insights into pragmatic theory : Frontal lobe deficits and sarcasm

    Skye McDonald;Samantha Pearce

  • Recognition of emotion from facial expression following traumatic brain injury.

    V. Croker;Skye McDonald

  • Emotion perception deficits following traumatic brain injury: a review of the evidence and rationale for intervention.

    Cristina Bornhofen;Skye Mcdonald

  • Pragmatic Language Skills after Closed Head Injury: Ability to Meet the Informational Needs of the Listener

    S. Mcdonald

  • Social skills treatment for people with severe, chronic acquired brain injuries: a multicenter trial.

    Skye McDonald;Robyn Tate;Leanne Togher;Cristina Bornhofen

  • Incidence of hospital-treated traumatic brain injury in an Australian community

    R.L. Tate;S. McDonald;J.M. Lulham

  • Social cognition, empathy and functional outcome in schizophrenia

    Amy Sparks;Skye McDonald;Bianca Lino;Bianca Lino;Maryanne O'Donnell

Frequent Co-Authors

Leanne Togher
Leanne Togher University of Sydney
Robyn L. Tate
Robyn L. Tate University of Sydney
Jacqueline A. Rushby
Jacqueline A. Rushby University of New South Wales
Chris Code
Chris Code University of Exeter
Tamara Ownsworth
Tamara Ownsworth Griffith University
Olivier Piguet
Olivier Piguet University of Sydney
Jacinta Douglas
Jacinta Douglas La Trobe University
Robert H. Horner
Robert H. Horner University of Oregon
Thomas R. Kratochwill
Thomas R. Kratochwill University of Wisconsin–Madison
David H. Barlow
David H. Barlow Boston University

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