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🧠 Big welcome to Jackie Ferraro, who’s joining our team as a doctoral researcher! Jackie explores how kids with Cerebral Visual Impairment experience cluttered spaces like classrooms and shops. She’s got a cool mix of neuroscience, psychology, and creative arts in her background.🎉 #CVI #AcademicLife
Still buzzing 🐝 after a fantastic day at #OTAUS2025 My #PosterSkirt was a great conversation starter 👗 Such a warm welcome from OT Australia. Sharing behind-the-scenes with you here.
Massive thanks to astroradioleah.bsky.social as sewing teacher and to Imy (10) for making video “less cringe”
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Looking forward to learn about OT stroke services. We were off to a great start with Ellen Druce on supporting patients with their independent practice, Tayla Grant on activity based rehab in in-patient settings, and Natasha Lannin and Sally Day on falls prevention #OTA2025
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Getting ready for conferences and lab visits in Brisbane. If you're attending
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or you're just in Brisbane between 28th June and 5th July, get in touch! I would love to talk all things brains, eyes, and neuropsychology.
Started a slightly different project recently with Leah Morabito! It has everything I love: learning something new, creative problem solving, and a high nerdiness level 🤓 Result will be revealed in a few weeks.
🧠🎓 Funded PhD opportunity @durhampsych.bsky.social!
Explore why cluttered spaces are hard for kids with brain-related visual impairment.
4 yrs funding by @fightforsight.bsky.social | Start Oct 2025
🔗 Details: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#PhD #ChildHealth #Neuropsychology #VisualImpairment
Are you a Dutch & English fluent researcher looking to work on an anti-trafficking policy project? Check out the Leverhulme Project, 'Interpreting the Governance of Human Trafficking Law' led by @nicktur.bsky.social
#academicjobs #research #jobs #postdoc
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We are taking a little break from posting educational videos to focus on our research.
In the meantime, you can find all our previous videos in this playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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This week's training video is about our own Oxford Visual Perception Screening test for vision issues after a stroke.
Screen for object and face recognition difficulties, reading impairments, neglect, visuospatial issues and more in 15 min with this paper-and-pen test.
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One week left! It's only 5 minutes and you get a bunch of FREE training resources at the end.
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We're back again with a new video on assessing visual perception difficulties. This time we focus on object agnosias. How to easily tell apart associative, apperceptive agnosia and optic aphasia. 🧑🎓🩺🧠
Find out: youtu.be/1W4F7Wp0qcA
One last call for our survey tinyurl.com/mpbebbmt !
We need ~50 #OT and #orthoptist by 31st March. Do you have 10 minutes? Can you share with 5 colleagues?
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We continue our video series with another one on assessment. This time, we explore tools for assessing perceptual organisation. What are your favourite instruments?
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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One way to comprehensively assess visual functions after a brain injury is with the Birmingham Object Recognition Battery. We briefly introduce the BORB in the our latest video.
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A very exciting day! After 7 years with @neledemeyere.bsky.social, the first paper on the Oxford Visual Perception Screen got published! OxVPS is a new free and simple tool to screen stroke survivors for visual perception problems.
OxVPS: oxvps.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Paper: doi.org/10.1177/0269...
Next up in our series on assessment instruments for visual perception issues after a stroke: the OT-APST
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Have you use it before? What are your experiences?
In our next videos on visual cognition difficulties after a brain injury, we'll cover ways to assess and screen for it.
First up is the Rivermead Perceptual Assessment Battery youtu.be/A_95-A57RO4
Simultanagnosia???? It's difficulties with seeing more than one thing at the time and can happen after brain injury.
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Learn more in our video youtu.be/IyzJbgbK1Iw
Check out the whole series
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Training for health professionals 🧑⚕️🏥
Optic aphasia! Is it agnosia 👁️? Is it aphasia 👄? It's a bit of both: difficulties with naming objects when shown visually.
Check out our video to learn more: 🧑🎓https://youtu.be/UUFHO4SQhwY
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Next up in our series of visual perception conditions: Associative Agnosia. 🏫🧑🎓
After a brain injury people can have difficulties with recognising object. 🧠🚲
Find out what's happening in their brain here youtu.be/AWqhjwF0Crw
A lovely 3rd year student of mine is looking for participants for her dissertation on victimisation and masking among autistic people: CW for questions on experiences of violence. Any reshares/time much appreciated. No funding attached.
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Apperceptive agnosia. That's a mouth full! It's basically issues with building a coherent picture out of all the colours and shapes that catch our eyes. 🧑🎓
Learn more here youtu.be/KlHUJ5yGsmk
Ever heard of Anton's syndrome? It's a rare but strange condition. 👨🎓
After an injury to the back of the brain, a person can become blind but they are totally unaware that they can't see. Their brain does not realise that they can no longer see. 🧑🦯
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Hallucinations is not always a sign of a mental health condition, it can happen after a brain injury too. Learn about Charles Bonnet syndrome in our video
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If you want to read more check out www.charlesbonnetsyndrome.uk
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What's sensory vision and what can be challenging after a brain injury?
Check out the video by Dr Alison Lane from @durhampsych.bsky.social
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What are the different stages of visual perception?
Find out in our newest video in our 🧑🎓training series for health professionals 🏥
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We're starting 2025 with a new series of CPD videos 🎓 for health professionals. 🆓 Feel free to share and use as you like!
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First up, what is visual perception? Is it the same as vision? Is it visual inattention?
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It does! Thanks for sharing
