Dr Laura J Bird
@DrLauraJBird
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#psychologist | research fellow @turnerinstitute @MonashUni | #neuroscience #musicscience #cognition #digitalhealth #mentalhealth | #sustainable #environment
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined May 2016
Thrilled to be awarded @TheFlorey Best Paper Award for my @Brain1878 paper on verbal cognitive preservation in #musicians with #epilepsy (see below), and the Wally and Jean Jackson Postdoctoral Prize, which is truly a special acknowledgment. Thank you Florey Review Panel! 😊
Yep, this is mine! Thrilled to have my first #PhD paper in @Brain1878. Looking forward to further investigating the #neuroprotective effects of #music in disorders like #epilepsy, #stroke and #dementia
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Very excited to see where this work leads!
For the first time Australian patients are being prescribed AI-informed epilepsy medication as part of a nationwide, multicentre randomised control trial led by @AlfredHealth neurologist and @STMneurosci researcher Professor @Patrick_Kwan. #Monash #TranslationalMedicine
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Every koala counts. 🐨 As part of the National Koala Monitoring Program, we've developed an app to help count koala numbers. The data you share helps build a national understanding of koala status and trends. Search “NKMP KoalaCounter” in your app store. 📷 | Adobe Stock
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Alright #AcademicChatter brains trust - how long does it take you to write the first page of a #grant project proposal? Aaand go...
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Exercise Therapy to Reduce Anxiety - ExTRA project is looking for individuals aged 40-79 interested in participating in an online exercise intervention aiming to reduce anxiety symptoms. For more info visit https://t.co/3K42m0VWmL with @andiPartovi @Doctor_Samba @kaarin_anstey
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Being run by a wonderful clinical #psychology #PhD student in the @MonashPsych School and an Honours student that we are co-supervising together this year 🩷 Your participation will help to develop a valuable new scale to measure eco-anxiety in children 🌳
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🚨Recruitment help! Are you based in Australia? Are your kid/s between 9-12 years old? Are they willing to complete some online surveys? 🌳Please help out by participating in the Eco-Anxiety in Children Study! Details in the flyer below, or follow link: https://t.co/BHScS5vFmp
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Two new disease-modifying drugs for #AlzheimersDisease have been approved internationally - the first in 20 years. Is Australia ready? Professor @AmyBrodtmann @BrodtmannLab @STMneurosci spoke with @WTuohy @theage on what it will take to satisfy what's predicted to be
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Keeping warm this Melbourne winter with our #BigFreeze10 beanies from @FightMND. Team MND working hard at The Florey to develop and deliver treatments for #MND #ALS. Loving the 10th anniversary edition and grateful for a decade of support from FightMND and its generous supporters
We are ready for The Big Freeze! ❄️ Our Motor Neurone Disease Group, led by Professor Bradley Turner, are excited to be part of @FightMND 's Big Freeze 10 this year. #FightMND #BigFreeze #TheFlorey @turnerMNDlab
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We are piloting an intervention with cyberscam survivors with #BrainInjury! Find out more in the flyer below.
We co-designed a cyberscam adjustment intervention in 2023 with cyberscam survivors with brain injury, carers and clinicians (@TACVictoria funded). We are piloting it this year! See attached flyer for more info. @Kimberly_A_Chew @THINKFULLY_ @jennpon
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Then and now... @3RRRFM studio photos from 2020 and 2024 My profile photos will forever just be updated radio shots!
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Congrats on your first #radio appearance @_nicholascheng ! Amazing job talking about your PhD research!
Our second guest is Nicholas Cheng, a PhD candidate at Orygen and Monash University researching psychotic disorders #scienceiseverywhere #3RRRFM #science
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Had a blast talking about #cognitive health and #healthliteracy in #students with @DrShaneRRR @scidocmartin and co this morning - thanks for a fab discussion and the opportunity to talk about my recent research at @MonashPsych !! ♥️🎧
We’re now joined by Dr Laura Bird, a researcher and lecturer at Monash University who focuses on cognitive health #scienceiseverywhere #3RRRFM #science
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Psychotic disorders can be difficult to diagnose due to cultural norms and people not sharing symptoms (such as hearing voices) as they may not believe it’s out of the ordinary #scienceiseverywhere #3RRRFM #science
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Laura focuses on enhancing cognitive health literacy so that individuals at high risk of cognitive difficulties can be more aware of early detection #scienceiseverywhere #3RRRFM #science
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As you watch the Aurora this evening, it’s worth reflecting that you’re getting a rare direct glimpse of the power of Nature. Those charged particles causing the atmosphere to glow came from a sunspot complex 17 times the diameter of Earth and traveled across 90 million miles at
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This Sunday 12th May I'll be joining @DrShaneRRR on @einstein_agogo radio (102.7 FM in Melbourne)! Tune in 11am-12pm to hear me talk about my recent research at @MonashPsych on #cognitive #health in #university_students during #COVID and beyond! 🎧📻🧠 https://t.co/uOrRPvHTQt
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Exploring the wonders of science and its impact on the world.
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Complete our fun online survey - all you have to do is listen to music and rate in on 5 dimensions! 🎶 Everyone is welcome to participate, to help us learn more about how music is tagged.
Calling all music listeners! 🎵🎧 How do you rate the music you stream? We want to know how well Spotify tags their music! We have a fun 30-minute online survey, all you have to do is listen to music excerpts and rate it on 5 dimensions! https://t.co/WLTituxkNj
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