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Department of Cognitive Science

Dr Laurie Miller

BSc Westminster, MSc McGill, PhD McGill.

Contact Details

Phone : +61 2 9515 7816
Fax : +61 2 9515 7474
email : laurie.miller@sydney.edu.au
Homepage : http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/profiles/lamiller.php

External Address

Neuropsychology Unit
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
The University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2006
Australia

External Appointments

  • Reviewer, NHMRC Project Grant. (2012)

Grants Awarded

  • ARC Centre of Excellence [CE110001021] (2011 - 2017) "ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders." Crain, S., Rhodes, G., Hodges, J., Coltheart, M., Castles, A., Barnier, A., Brock, J., Byrne, B., Demuth, K., Green, M., Langdon, R., Johnson, B., McArthur, G., Miller, L., Nickels, L., Piguet, O., Savage, G., Thompson, W., Thornton, R. et al. ($21,000,000)
  • Caring for Carer’s (2011) A Better Practice Project Grant from Sydney Southwest Area Health Service Miller, L. ($4)
  • NHMRC Project Grant [510106] (2008 - 2010) "Clinical and biological markers of disease presentation and progression in early frontotemporal dementia". Piguet, O., Hodges, J., Rose, S., & Miller, L. ($485,000)

Selected Publications

Books

  • Radford,K., Say, M., Thayer, Z & Miller, L. (2010). Making the Most of Your Memory: An everyday memory skills program. Sydney: ASSBI Resources.

Periodicals

  • Miller, L.A., Hsieh, S., Lah, S., Savage, S., Hodges, J.R., & Piguet, O. (2012). One size does not fit all: Face emotion processing impairments are mediated by different cognitive deficits in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Behavioural Neurology, 25(1), 53-60.
  • Radford, K., Lah, S., Thayer, Z., Say, M., & Miller, L.A. (2012). Improving memory in outpatients with neurological disorders using a group-based training program. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18(4), 738-748. doi:10.1017/S1355617712000379
  • Ricci, M., Graef, S., Blundo, C., & Miller, L.A. (2012). Using the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) to differentiate Alzheimer Dementia and behavioural variant Fronto-Temporal Dementia. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 26(6), 926-941. [Link]
  • Gandy, M., Sharpe, L., Nicholson-Perry, K., Thayer, Z., Miller, L., Boserio, J., & Mohamed, A. (2012). A randomized controlled trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to improve mood and quality of life in adults with epilepsy. Neurology, 79, 371-375.
  • Mioshi, E., Foxe, D., Leslie, F., Hsieh, S., Savage, S., Miller, L., Hodges, J.R., & Piguet, O. (In Press). The impact of dementia severity on caregiver burden in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer Disease. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders.
  • Gandy, M., Sharpe, L., Nicholson-Perry, K, Miller, L., Thayer, Z., Boserio, J., & Mohamed, A. (2012). Assessing the efficacy of 2 screening measures for depression in people with epilepsy. Neurology, 79, 371-375.
  • Gandy, M., Sharpe, L., Nicholson-Perry, K., Miller, L., Thayer, Z., Boserio, J., & Mohamed, A. (In Press). Rates of DSM-IV mood, anxiety disorders and suicidality in Australian adult epilepsy outpatients: A comparison of well-controlled versus refractory epilepsy. Epilepsy and Behavior.
  • Radford, K., Lah, S., Thayer, Z., & Miller, L.A. (2011). Effective group-based memory training for patients with epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 22, 272-278. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.06.021
  • Radford, K., Lah, S., Say, M., & Miller, L. (2011). Validation of a new measure of prospective memory: The Royal Prince Alfred prospective memory test. Clinical Neuropsychologist, 25, 127-140.
  • Irish, M., Hornberger, M., Lah, S., Miller, L., Pengas, G., Nestor, P.J., Hodges, J.R., & Piguet, O. (2011). Profiles of recent autobiographical memory retrieval in semantic dementia, behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia, and Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuropsychologia, 49(9), 2694-2702.
  • Smith, M.L., Bigel, M., & Miller, L.A. (2011). Visual paired-associate learning: In search of material-specific effects in adult temporal lobectomy patients. Epilepsy and Behavior, 20, 326-330.
  • Tham, W., Stevenson, R.J., & Miller, L.A. (2011). The impact of mediodorsal thalamic lesions on olfactory attention and perception. Brain and Cognition, 77, 71-79.
  • Kumfor, F., Miller, L., Lah, S., Hsieh, S., Savage, S., Hodges, J. R., & Piguet, O. (2011). Are you really angry? The effect of intensity on facial emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia. Social Neuroscience, 6(5-6), 502-514.
  • Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., Mohamed, A., Bleasel, A., & Miller, L. (2010). The effect of unilateral amygdala removals on detecting fear from briefly presented backward-masked faces. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 32(2), 123-131. doi:10.1080/13803390902821724
  • Willis, M.L., Palermo, R., Burke, D., McGrillen, K., & Miller, L. (2010). Orbitofrontal cortex lesions result in abnormal social judgements to emotional faces. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2182-2187. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.010
  • Gray, K., Lah, S., Batchelor, S., Thompson, E., & Miller, L. (2010). Autobiographical event memory in patients with mesial temporal lobe lesions: Impact of test methodology and aetiology of lesion. Brain Impairment, 11(3), 293-298. doi: 10.1375/brim.11.3.293
  • Hepner, I.J., Mohanmed, A., Fulham, M.J., & Miller, L.A. (2007). Topographical, Autobiographical and Semantic Memory in a Patient with Bilateral Mesial Temporal and Retrosplenial Infarction. Neurocase, 13, 97-114.
  • Blundo, C., Ricci, M., & Miller, L. (2006). Category-specific knowledge deficit for animals in a patient with herpes simplex encephalitis. Cogn Neuropsychol, 23(8), 1248-1268. doi:10.1080/02643290600896449
  • Lah, S., Joy, P., Bakker, K., & Miller, L. (2002). Verbal memory and IQ in children who undergo focal resection for intractable epilepsy: A clinical review. Brain Impairment, 3, 114-121.
  • Harris, I.M., Fulham, M.J., & Miller, L.A. (2001). The effects of mesial temporal and cerebellar hypometabolism on learning and memory. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 7, 353-362.

Published Abstracts

  • Fitzgerald, Z., Thayer, Z., Boserio, J., Mohamed, A., & Miller, L. (2012). The pathophysiology of accelerated long-term forgetting in epilepsy: Using ambulatory EEG monitoring to examine the role of epileptiform activity and sleep [Abstract]. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18(Suppl. 2), 65.
  • Miller, L.A., Mioshi, E., Savage, S., Lah, S., Hodges, J., & Piguet, O. (2012). Carer burden in dementia: Impact of neuropsychological impairments, dementia type and demographic factors [Abstract]. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18(Suppl. 2), 78.
  • Mitchell, A.S., & Miller, L.A. (In Press). Comparative visual memory processing after medial thalamic damage in humans and non-human primates [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.
  • Ricci, M., Savage, G., & Miller, L. (2012). Considering the impact of stimulus modality, stimulus type and encoding condition on rate of longer term forgetting in patients with epilepsy [Abstract]. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18(Suppl. 2), 65.
  • Lah, S., Miller, L., Gascoigne, M., Thayer, Z., Ricci, M., & Jansary, A. (2012). Accelerated long-term forgetting in patients with epilepsy [Abstract]. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18(Suppl. 2), 64.
  • Lah, S., Mohamed, A., Thayer, Z., Miller, L., & Diamond, K. (2012). Accelerated long-term forgetting of verbal information in patients with temporal and extratemporal partial epilepsy [Abstract]. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18(Suppl. 2), 64-65.
  • Piguet, O., Gleeson, L.D., Lah, S., Miller, L., & Hodges, J.R. (2011). Emotion processing in nonfluent primary progressive aphasias and Alzheimer’s disease [Abstract]. Brain Impairment, 12, S23-24.
  • Kumfor, F., Miller, L., Lah, S., Hsieh, S., Foxe, D., Leslie, F., Savage, S., Hodges, J.R. & Piguet, O. (2010). Emotion recognition in subtypes of frontotemporal dementia: Effects of salience [Abstract]. Combined Abstracts of 2010 Psychology Conferences.
  • Willis, M., Palermo, R., & Miller, L. (2009). The role of the orbitofrontal cortex in facial expression processing [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 61, 58.
  • Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., Mohamed, A., Bleasel, A., & Miller, L. (2007). The impact of amygdala lesions on the detection of fearful facial expressions [Abstract]. Perception, 36(Suppl. 1), 151.
  • Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., Mohamed, A., & Miller, L. (2007). The impact of amygdala lesions on the detection of fearful facial expressions [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 59(Suppl. 1), 52.
  • Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., & Miller, L. (2006). Affective priming from faces: The influence of spatial frequency, prime duration and amygdala damage [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 58(Suppl. 1), 87.
  • Palermo, R., & Miller, L. (2005). Amygdalae, auras, and affective facial expressions [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 57(Suppl. 1), 66.
  • Hepner, I.J. & Miller, L.A. (2004). Comparing Remote Autobiographical, Semantic and Topographical Memories in a Patient with Bilateral Mesial Temporal Infarctions [Abstract]. Brain Impairment, Abstracts of the 2004 Meeting of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI) and the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), 5(Suppl. 1), 25.
  • Lah, S., Bye, A., Bleasel, A., Lawson, J., Joy, P., Bakker, K., & Miller, L. (2001). Verbal learning outcome in children following focal resection for intractable epilepsy [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 53, 194.
  • Lah, S., & Miller, L. (1998). A case study of verbal memory reduction following right temporal lobectomy in a child [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 50, 141.

Conference Presentations, Colloquia, and other presentations

  • Gandy, M, Sharpe, L., Nicholson Perry, K., Miller, L., Boserio, J. & Mohamed, A. (2012, August). A randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioural therapy to improve depression in adults with epilepsy. Presentation given at the Psychotherapy and Neuroscience: Evidence and Challenges for CBT Conference held by the European Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Miller, L. (2012, June). Cognitive Rehabilitation. Invited presentation given at the Meeting of the NSW College of Clinical Neuropsychology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney.
  • Miller, L. (2012, June). Accelerated long-term forgetting in patients with Epilepsy. Symposium conducted at the International Neuropsychological Society Mid-year Meeting, Oslo, Norway.
  • Miller, L., Mioshi, E., Savage, S., Lah, S., Hodges, J., & Piguet, O. (2012, June). Carer burden in dementia: Impact of neuropsychological impairments, dementia type and demographic factors. Symposium conducted at the International Neuropsychological Society Mid-year Meeting, Oslo, Norway.
  • Lah, S., Mohamed, A., Thayer, Z., Miller, L., & Diamond, K. (2012, June). Accelerated long-term forgetting of verbal information in patients with temporal and extratemporal partial epilepsy. Symposium conducted at the International Neuropsychological Society Mid-year Meeting, Oslo, Norway.
  • Radford, K., Lah, S., Thayer, Z. & Miller, L. (2012, May). Comparing the effectiveness of group-based memory training and predictors of outcome for patients with stroke versus epilepsy. Paper presented at the World Congress of Neurorehabilitation, Melbourne.
  • Lah, S., Tedder, J., Hornberger, M., & Miller, L. (2012, May). Episodic future thinking in a patient with Korsakoff’s Amnesia. Presentation given at the CCD Memory Node Meeting, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney.
  • Miller, L., & Radford, K. (2012, April). Evaluating the effectiveness of group-based memory training in neurological patients. Presentation given at the "Memory on the Island”, CCD Memory Node Meeting, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Ricci, M., Savage, G. & Miller, L. (2012, April). Accelerated forgetting in epilepsy: Considering the impact of material, learning condition and delay interval. Presentation given at the "Memory on the Island”, CCD Memory Node Meeting, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Miller, L.A., & Radford, K. (2012, February). Evaluating memory training in patients with stroke. Poster session presented at the 40th Annual International Neuropsychological Society Conference, Montreal, Canada.
  • Lah, S., Tedder, J., Hornberger, M., & Miller, L. (2011, November). Loss of memory for the past, but no problems in episodic future thinking in a patient with Korsakoff’s disease. Paper presented at the College of Clinical Neuropsychology Conference, Sydney.
  • Baird, A., Hornberger, M., Lah, S., & Miller, L. (2011, November). In Baird, A. (Chair), Retrograde amnesia. Symposium conducted at the College of Clinical Neuropsychology Conference, Sydney.
  • Bapat, D., Breen, N., & Miller, L.A. (2011, November). Correlates of whole figure rotations in the Rey Complex Figure: A retrospective analysis. Paper presented at the College of Clinical Neuropsychologist Meeting, Sydney.
  • Campbell, J., Hepner, I., & Miller, L.A. (2011, November). Exploring age and sex effects on facets of topographical memory. Paper presented at the College of Clinical Neuropsychologist Meeting, Sydney.
  • Fitzgerald, Z., Thayer, Z, Mohamed, A. & Miller, L. (2011, November). Accelerated long-term forgetting in epilepsy: Using ambulatory EEG monitoring to determine the pathophysiology. Paper presented at the College of Clinical Neuropsychologist Meeting, Sydney.
  • Miller, L. (2011, November). Retrograde memory after focal thalamic stroke. Invited paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society's College of Clinical Neuropsychologists, Sydney.
  • Gandy, M., Sharpe, L., Nicholson-Perry, K., Thayer, Z., Miller, L. and Mohamed, A. (2011, October). A randomized controlled trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Improve Mood and Quality of Life in Adults with Epilepsy. Paper presented at the AACBT National Conference, Sydney.
  • Radford, K., Lah, S., Thayer, Z., Say, M.J. & Miller, L. (2011, September). Making the most of your memory: A group-based intervention to improve memory functioning following nonprogressive neurological damage. Presentation given at the Brain Sciences NSW Symposium; Brain Plasticity – the Adaptable Brain, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
  • Tedder, J., Miller, L., & Lah, S. (2011, August). Episodic future thinking: is recall of past personal experiences necessary? Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Memory (ICOM5), York, UK.
  • Irish, M., Hornberger, M., Lah, S., Foxe, D., Leslie, F., Hsieh, S., Savage, S., Miller, L., Hodges, JR., & Piguet, O. (2011, August). Differential profiles of recent autobiographical memory retrieval in frontotemporal dementia. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Memory (ICOM5), York, UK.
  • Piguet, O., Gleeson, L., Lah, S., Miller, L., & Hodges, J.R. (2011, July). Comparing facial emotion processing in progressive nonfluent aphasia, logopenic progressive aphasia and Alzheimer’s Disease. Poster session presented at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD), Paris, France.
  • Piguet, O., Gleeson, D., Lah, S., Miller, L., & Hodges, J.R. (2011, July). Emotion Processing in Nonfluent Primary Progressive Aphasias and Alzheimer’s Disease. Paper presented at the 4th Joint Meeting of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment and the International Neuropsychological Society, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Mioshi E., Foxe D. Leslie F., Savage S.; Hsieh S., Hornberger M., Miller, L., Piguet O. & Hodges J.R. (2011, July). Impact of dementia subtype and disease staging on carer burden in frontotemporal dementia. Presentation given at the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, Paris, France.
  • Miller, L. (2011, February). Understanding Memory Processes and the Role of Memory Rehabilitation Presentation given at the ARC CCD Memory Node Meeting, NeuRa, Sydney.
  • Kumfor, F., Miller, L., Lah, S., Hsieh, S., Foxe, D., Leslie, F., Savage, S., Hodges, J.R., & Piguet, O. (2010, November). Emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia. Poster session presented at the Tow Research Day, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
  • Kumfor, F., Miller, L., Lah, S., Hsieh, S., Foxe, D., Leslie, F., Savage, S., Hodges, J.R. & Piguet, O. (2010, October). Emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia: Effects of salience. Paper presented at the 16th Annual APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists Conference, Notre Dame University, Fremantle, Western Australia.
  • Kumfor, F., Miller, L., Lah, S., Hsieh, S., Foxe, D., Leslie, F., Savage, S., Hodges, JR., & Piguet, O. (2010, September). Enhanced salience and emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia. Poster session presented at the 5th Annual Brain Sciences Symposium, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
  • Kumfor, F., Miller, L., Lah, S., Hsieh, S., Foxe, D., Leslie, F., Savage, S., Hodges, J.R., & Piguet, O. (2010, September). Enhanced salience and emotion recognition in frontotemporal dementia. Poster session presented at the Biomedical Sciences Online Poster Exhibition, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
  • Willis, M., Palermo, R., Burke, D., McGrillen, K., & Miller, L. (2009, November). The effect of orbitofrontal cortex lesions on facial expression processing. Paper presented at the Faculty of Human Sciences Higher Degree Research Showcase, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
  • Willis, M., Palermo, R., & Miller, L. (2009, August). Impaired facial expression processing in patients with lesions of the orbitofrontal cortex. Poster session presented at the The Emotional Brain, Sydney, Australia.
  • Willis, M., Palermo, R., & Miller, L. (2009, July). Facial expression processing deficits following orbitofrontal cortex lesions. Poster session presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, York, UK.
  • Willis, M., Palermo, R., & Miller, L. (2009, April). The role of the orbitofrontal cortex in facial expression processing. Paper presented at the 36th Experimental Psychology Conference, Wollongong, Australia.
  • Willis, M., Palermo, R., & Miller, L. (2008, January). Facial expression deficits following lesions of the orbitofrontal cortex. Paper presented at the Department of Linguistics and Psychology Research Festival, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
  • Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., Mohamed, A., Bleasel, A. & Miller, L. (2007, August). The impact of unilateral amygdala lesions on the detection of brief backward-masked fearful facial expressions. Poster session presented at the 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, Arezzo, Italy.
  • Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., Mohamed, A., & Miller, L. (2007, April). The impact of amygdala lesions on the detection of fearful facial expressions. Paper presented at the 34th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Canberra, Australia.
  • Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., & Miller, L. (2006, July). Auras, affect and the amygdala. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the International Society for Behavioural Neuroscience, Bath Spa, UK.
  • Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., & Miller, L. (2006, July). Affective priming from faces: The influence of spatial frequency, prime duration and amygdala damage. Paper presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting (EPS), Plymouth, UK.
  • Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., & Miller, L. (2006, April). Affective priming from faces: The influence of spatial frequency, prime duration and amygdala damage. Paper presented at the 33rd Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), Brisbane, Australia.
  • Palermo, R., Miller, L. & Coltheart, M. (2005, November). Amygdalae and Affective Facial Expressions. Poster session presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
  • Palermo, R. & Miller, L. (2005, April). Amygdalae, auras, and affective facial expressions. Symposium conducted at the Face and object processing. Symposium conducted at the 32nd Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.