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Annu Mothakunnel

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Annu is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Registered Psychologist endorsed with the Psychology Board of Australia. She is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and a fellow of the College of Clinical Neuropsychologists.

Annu has worked in various research and clinical settings including hospitals, outpatient clinics and community health over the past 7 years. She currently holds an appointment as clinical neuropsychologist in the psychogeriatrics department at Westmead Hospital.

She has a special interest in the areas of ageing and dementia, neurodegenerative disorders, drug and alcohol, complex mental health and psychiatric illness. She has expertise in providing neuropsychological services including diagnostic assessments, capacity assessments, as well as neuropsychological intervention and treatment planning.

    • Bachelor of Psychology (Hons), University of Sydney

    • Master of Clinical Neuropsychology, Macquarie University

    • Registered psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia

    • Endorsement in the area of Clinical Neuropsychology

    • Registered Clinical Neuropsychology supervisor

    • Member of the Australian Psychological Society

    • Member of College of Clinical Neuropsychology.

  • • Brodaty, H., Mothakunnel, A., de Vel-Palumbo, M., Ames, D., Ellis, K. A., Reppermund, S., ... & Sachdev, P. S. (2014). Influence of population versus convenience sampling on sample characteristics in studies of cognitive aging. Annals of epidemiology, 24(1), 63-71.

    • Miller, L. A., Mothakunnel, A., Flanagan, E., Nikpour, A., & Thayer, Z. (2017). Accelerated long term forgetting in patients with focal seizures: incidence rate and contributing factors. Epilepsy & Behavior, 72, 108-113.

    • Miller, L. A., Flanagan, E., Mothakunnel, A., Mohamed, A., & Thayer, Z. (2015). Old dogs with new tricks: Detecting accelerated long-term forgetting by extending traditional measures. Epilepsy & Behavior, 45, 205-211.

    • Irish, M., Mothakunnel, A., Dermody, N., Wilson, N. A., Hodges, J. R., & Piguet, O. (2017). Damage to right medial temporal structures disrupts the capacity for scene construction—A case study. Hippocampus, 27(6), 635-641.

    • Irish, M., Landin-Romero, R., Mothakunnel, A., Ramanan, S., Hsieh, S., Hodges, J. R., & Piguet, O. (2018). Evolution of autobiographical memory impairments in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia–A longitudinal neuroimaging study. Neuropsychologia, 110, 14-25.

    • Synn, A., Mothakunnel, A., Kumfor, F., Chen, Y., Piguet, O., Hodges, J. R., & Irish, M. (2018). Mental states in moving shapes: distinct cortical and subcortical contributions to theory of mind impairments in dementia. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 61(2), 521-535.

    • Strikwerda‐Brown, C., Mothakunnel, A., Hodges, J. R., Piguet, O., & Irish, M. (2019). External details revisited–A new taxonomy for coding ‘non‐episodic’content during autobiographical memory retrieval. Journal of neuropsychology, 13(3), 371-397.

    • Ramanan, S., Strikwerda-Brown, C., Mothakunnel, A., Hodges, J. R., Piguet, O., & Irish, M. (2019). Fronto-parietal contributions to episodic retrieval—Evidence from neurodegenerative disorders. Learning & memory, 26(7), 262-271.

    • Strikwerda-Brown, C., Ramanan, S., Goldberg, Z. L., Mothakunnel, A., Hodges, J., Ahmed, R., ... & Irish, M. (2020). The interplay of emotional and social conceptual processes during moral reasoning in frontotemporal dementia–a role for the uncinate fasciculus.

    • Strikwerda-Brown, C., Ramanan, S., Goldberg, Z. L., Mothakunnel, A., Hodges, J. R., Ahmed, R. M., ... & Irish, M. (2021). The interplay of emotional and social conceptual processes during moral reasoning in frontotemporal dementia. Brain, 144(3), 938-952.

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