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  • 2014 - BPS Barbara Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award, British Psychological Society

Overview

Tom M. McMillan is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and psychology, with significant contributions to clinical psychology, epidemiology, and neurology. Their work involves a multidisciplinary approach, also touching on economics, econometrics, sociology, and political science.

McMillan's research focuses extensively on topics related to traumatic brain injury, including traumatic brain injury research, neurovascular disturbances, suicide and self-harm studies, child abuse and trauma, criminal justice and corrections analysis, posttraumatic stress disorder, and forensic psychiatry aspects such as psychopathy and sexual offending.

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on head injury and its long-term impacts, especially within prison populations. Selected recent papers include:

  • Associations between significant head injury and persisting disability and violent crime in women in prison in Scotland, UK: a cross-sectional study, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Prisoner knowledge about head injury is Improved by brief psychoeducation, 2022, Brain Injury
  • Associations between significant head injury in male juveniles in prison in Scotland UK and cognitive function, disability and crime: A cross sectional study, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Research priorities for progressive pulmonary fibrosis in the UK, 2024, BMJ Open Respiratory Research
  • Evaluating the Feasibility of Prison Officers Providing Guided Self-Help Support to Adult Male Offenders Experiencing Stress, 2022, Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice

Their most frequent co-authors include Hira Aslam, Sarah Barry, Eimear Crowe, Eleanor Seddon, and Laura Fabbri.

McMillan publishes regularly in forensic and clinical-related journals. The venues with the most publications from this researcher include Forensic Science International Mind and Law, The Lancet Psychiatry, BMJ Open Respiratory Research, Brain Injury, and PLoS ONE.

McMillan has received recognition from the British Psychological Society with the BPS Barbara Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award awarded in 2014.

Best Publications

  • The Glasgow Outcome Scale - 40 years of application and refinement.

    Tom McMillan;J T Lindsay Wilson;Jennie Ponsford;Harvey Levin

  • Disability in young people and adults after head injury: 5–7 year follow up of a prospective cohort study

    L Whitnall;T M McMillan;G D Murray;G M Teasdale

  • Neuropsychological deficits and opiate abuse.

    P.E Davis;H Liddiard;T.M McMillan

  • Assessment of post-traumatic amnesia after severe closed head injury: retrospective or prospective?

    T. M. Mcmillan;E. L. M. M. Jongen;R. J. Greenwood

  • Traumatic brain injury: a potential cause of violent crime?

    W Huw Williams;Prathiba Chitsabesan;Seena Fazel;Tom McMillan

  • Brief mindfulness training for attentional problems after traumatic brain injury: A randomised control treatment trial

    T. McMillan;Ian H. Robertson;D. Brock;L. Chorlton

  • Rehabilitation of Unilateral Neglect: Improving Function by Contralesional Limb Activation

    Ian H. Robertson;Karen Hogg;Tom M. McMillan

  • Death after head injury: the 13 year outcome of a case control study

    Thomas M McMillan;Graham M Teasdale;Christopher J Weir;Elaine Stewart

  • Neuropsychological Change and S-100 Protein Release in 130 Unselected Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

    Shaun Kilminster;Tom Treasure;Tom McMillan;David W. Holt

  • Long-term health outcomes after exposure to repeated concussion in elite level: rugby union players.

    T M McMillan;P McSkimming;J Wainman-Lefley;L M Maclean

  • Quality of life in children with acquired brain injury: parent perspectives 1-5 years after injury.

    Jenny Limond;Liam Dorris;Thomas M McMillan

  • Relationships between neuropathology and cognitive functioning in temporal lobectomy patients.

    T M McMillan;G E Powell;I Janota;C E Polkey

  • Rehabilitation by limb activation training reduces left-sided motor impairment in unilateral neglect patients: A single-blind randomised control trial

    Ian H. Robertson;Tom M. McMillan;Eleanor MacLeod;Jennifer Edgeworth

  • The neuropsychology of moderate head injury.

    T M McMillan;E E Glucksman

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder and severe head injury.

    T M McMillan

  • A systematic review of recommended modifications of CBT for people with cognitive impairments following brain injury.

    Melanie Gallagher;Hamish J McLeod;Thomas M McMillan

  • The new Maudsley series of temporal lobectomy. I: Short‐term cognitive effects

    Graham E. Powell;Charles E. Polkey;Tom McMillan

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder following minor and severe closed head injury: 10 single cases

    T. M. McMillan

  • Neurobehavioural disability and social handicap following traumatic brain injury

    Rodger L.I. Wood;Tom M. McMillan

  • Death rate is increased for at least 7 years after head injury: a prospective study

    T. M. McMillan;G. M. Teasdale

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury: A review of causal mechanisms, assessment,and treatment.

    Tom M McMillan;W Huw Williams;Richard Bryant

  • Principal components of the WAIS–R

    A. G. M. Canavan;G. Dunn;T. M. McMillan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian H. Robertson
Ian H. Robertson Trinity College Dublin
Jonathan Evans
Jonathan Evans University of Glasgow
Jennie Ponsford
Jennie Ponsford Monash University
Pamela J. Taylor
Pamela J. Taylor Cardiff University
Richard A. Bryant
Richard A. Bryant University of New South Wales
Erin D. Bigler
Erin D. Bigler University of Utah

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