Prof. Lea Williams

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  Advancing age heralds a growth in emotional stability accompanied by a neural transition to increased control over negative emotions and greater accessibility of positive emotions, according to a team led by neuroscientist Leanne M. Williams of Westmead (Australia) Hospital.A brain area needed for conscious thought, the medial prefrontal cortex, primarily influences these emotional reactions in older adults, Williams and her colleagues say.

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  Leanne Williams of the Westmead Hospital in New South Wales, Australia, and colleagues wanted to understand how biological changes might explain this shift.

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  Advancing age heralds a growth in emotional stability accompanied by a neural transition to increased control over negative emotions and greater accessibility of positive emotions, according to a team led by neuroscientist Leanne M. Williams of Westmead (Australia) Hospital.A brain area needed for conscious thought, the medial prefrontal cortex, primarily influences these emotional reactions in older adults, Williams and her colleagues say ... more info>>>

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  Dr Lea Williams of the Brain Dynamics Centre in Sydney, Australia assessed 1,000 brains across 30 cognitive tests and found that:

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  Published on: 7/10/2008    Last Visited: 10/8/2008  

  Leanne Williams, professor of cognitive neuropsychiatry and director of the Brain Dynamics Centre at Westmead Hospital, said the study highlighted 'the importance of considering brain [changes] to support clinical decisions about depression and its treatment'.She said it would be valuable to repeat the research in younger people - the average age in the German study was 46 - and follow them over time to investigate links between brain changes and the onset of depression.

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  Published on: 4/1/2004    Last Visited: 3/14/2008  

  Pursuing this line of research, NISAD affiliated scientist Prof. Lea Williams is extending her investigations into how schizophrenia affects emotion processing in the brain.
  
  As reported in the January 2001 HeadLines, Prof. Williams and her team have confirmed that the illness causes a dysfunction of normal signaling between the brain?s limbic system and frontal lobes.As the limbic system, including the amygdala, is responsible for emotionally interpreting received impressions, this dysfunction may produce difficulties in the interpretation of emotionally loaded information.
  
  Prof. Williams and her collaborators have now completed two further studies; the first investigated how antipsychotic medication affects the perception of emotion; the second explored the role of limbic/frontal lobe dysfunction and arousal in producing the symptoms of paranoia in schizophrenia.
  
  The effects of medication on emotion processing
  
  For the first study [1], Prof. Williams and collaborators utilised visual scanpaths to assess the effects of antipsychotic medications.
  
  Of 28 schizophrenia subjects, 15 were prescribed the atypical (newer) medication Risperidone, and 13 prescribed the older medication Haloperidol.A control group of healthy unmedicated subjects was also assessed.

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  Associate Professor Lea Williams (BDC Director) is a finalist for the University of New South Wales Eureka Prize for Scientific Research.This prize is awarded for outstanding curiosity-driven scientific research undertaken in Australia by an Australian scientist under the age of 40, which is judged to be under-appreciated by the Australian public.

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  Published on: 12/15/2007    Last Visited: 11/3/2008  

  The Brain Dynamics Centre (BDC), under the leadership of Associate Professor Lea Williams, officially joined WMI bringing with it a wealth of research expertise.

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  Leanne Williams, professor of cognitive neuropsychiatry and director of the Brain Dynamics Centre at Westmead Hospital, said the study highlighted "the importance of considering brain [changes] to support clinical decisions about depression and its treatment". She said it would be valuable to repeat the research in younger people - the average age in the German study was 46 - and follow them over time to investigate links between brain changes and the onset of depression.

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  Published on: 4/17/2009    Last Visited: 1/26/2010  

  "This ground breaking study, which is being conducted at 20 research centres around the world, may change the way in which personalised medicine is implemented in depression," says University of Sydney Professor Lea Williams and director of the Brain Dynamics Centre.

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