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Neuroscience

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 1990 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Vicki Anderson is affiliated with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in epidemiology, emergency medicine, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, psychiatry and mental health, and clinical psychology.

Their work addresses several key topics, including:

  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology

Among recent notable publications are:

  • The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Diagnostic Criteria for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (2023) in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Clinical recovery from concussion-return to school and sport: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2023) in British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Mental health after paediatric concussion: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2021) in British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • A longitudinal analysis of puberty-related cortical development (2020) in NeuroImage
  • Targeted interventions and their effect on recovery in children, adolescents and adults who have sustained a sport-related concussion: a systematic review (2023) in British Journal of Sports Medicine

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Anderson include:

  • Stephen Hearps
  • Franz E Babl
  • Cathy Catroppa
  • Gavin A Davis
  • Timothy J. Silk

Anderson has contributed extensively to multiple publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (15 publications)
  • British Journal of Sports Medicine (8 publications)
  • Journal of Neurotrauma (8 publications)
  • BMJ Open (6 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5 publications)

The scientist was awarded a Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Development of Executive Functions Through Late Childhood and Adolescence in an Australian Sample

    Vicki A. Anderson;Peter Anderson;Elisabeth Northam;Rani Jacobs

  • Normative Data From the Cantab. I: Development of Executive Function Over the Lifespan

    Cinzia R De Luca;Stephen J Wood;Vicki Anderson;Jo-Anne Buchanan

  • The differential assessment of children's attention: The Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch), normative sample and ADHD performance.

    Tom Manly;Vicki Anderson;Ian Nimmo-Smith;Anna Turner

  • SOCIAL: an integrative framework for the development of social skills.

    Miriam H. Beauchamp;Vicki Anderson

  • Functional plasticity or vulnerability after early brain injury

    Vicki Anderson;Vicki Anderson;Cathy Catroppa;Cathy Catroppa;Sue Morse;Flora Haritou

  • Do children really recover better? Neurobehavioural plasticity after early brain insult

    Vicki Anne Anderson;Vicki Anne Anderson;Megan Mary Spencer-Smith;Amanda Gabrielle Wood;Amanda Gabrielle Wood

  • Developmental Neuropsychology: A Clinical Approach

    Vicki Anderson;Elisabeth Northam;Jacquie Wrennall

  • Relationships between cognitive and behavioral measures of executive function in children with brain disease

    Vicki A. Anderson;Peter Anderson;Elisabeth Northam;Rani Jacobs

  • Assessing Executive Functions in Children: Biological, Psychological, and Developmental Considerations

    Vicki Anderson

  • Memory impairments identified in people at ultra-high risk for psychosis who later develop first-episode psychosis.

    Warrick J. Brewer;Shona M. Francey;Stephen J. Wood;Henry J. Jackson

  • Executive functions and the frontal lobes: A lifespan perspective.

    Vicki Anderson;Rani K Jacobs;Peter J. Anderson

  • What is the difference in concussion management in children as compared with adults? A systematic review

    Gavin A. Davis;Vicki Anderson;Franz E Babl;Gerard A. Gioia

  • Age at injury as a predictor of outcome following pediatric head injury: A longitudinal perspective

    Vicki Anderson;Cressida Moore

  • Assessing executive functions in children: biological, psychological, and developmental considerationst.

    Vicki Anderson

  • Twelve year outcomes following bacterial meningitis: further evidence for persisting effects

    Keith Grimwood;Peter Anderson;Vicki Anderson;Lesley Tan

  • Recommendations for the Use of Common Outcome measures in pediatric traumatic brain injury research

    Stephen R. McCauley;Elisabeth A. Wilde;Vicki A. Anderson;Gary Bedell

  • Childhood brain insult: can age at insult help us predict outcome?

    Vicki Anne Anderson;Megan Mary Spencer-Smith;Richard Jacob Leventer;Lee T Coleman

  • The Tower of London Test: Validation and standardization for pediatric populations.

    Peter Anderson;Vicki Anderson;Genevieve Lajoie

  • Parenting Behavior Is Associated With the Early Neurobehavioral Development of Very Preterm Children

    Karli Treyvaud;Vicki A. Anderson;Kelly Howard;Merilyn Bear

  • Can we manage sport related concussion in children the same as in adults

    Paul R McCrory;Alex Collie;Vicki Anderson;Gavin Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Cathy Catroppa
Cathy Catroppa Royal Children's Hospital
Miriam H. Beauchamp
Miriam H. Beauchamp University of Montreal
Emma Sciberras
Emma Sciberras Deakin University
Timothy J. Silk
Timothy J. Silk Deakin University
Keith Owen Yeates
Keith Owen Yeates University of Calgary
Jan M. Nicholson
Jan M. Nicholson La Trobe University
Amanda G. Wood
Amanda G. Wood Deakin University
A. Simon Harvey
A. Simon Harvey Royal Children's Hospital
Marc L. Seal
Marc L. Seal University of Melbourne
Paul J. Frick
Paul J. Frick Louisiana State University

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