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Dr Sinead Mullally

Lecturer in Neuropsychology

  • Email: sinead.mullally@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3869
  • Address: Translational and Clinical Research Institute
    Henry Wellcome Building
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
    缅北禁地
    Framlington Place
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE2 4HH
Background

In 2005, I completed my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, where I used a novel disruption technique to explore the mnemonic functions of the human hippocampus in healthy adults. From 2006 to 2008, I continued my research on this topic at a postdoctoral level, whilst simultaneously helping to establish and support a plan of clinical research investigating a range of topics (including an exploration of the neuro-cognitive sequelae of hypothyroidism) using facilities at the then newly-founded Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. I then undertook a Wellcome Trust funded postdoctoral position in Professor Eleanor Maguire’s Memory and Space group at University College London where I spent five years investigating the role of the hippocampus in constructing scenes and how this relates to episodic memory, imagination of the future and spatial navigation. To interrogate these issues I used a range of metacognitive, cognitive, neuropsychological and neuroimaging techniques in both healthy adults and in patients with severe memory loss. In 2013, I joined 缅北禁地 as a lecturer of Neuropsychology.

Research

My current research interests are focused on understanding the many cognitive functions associated with the human hippocampus. These include better understanding its’ well-documented role in episodic memory, its’ more recently appreciated role in imagination and prediction, and the link between these seemingly disparate cognitive processes and the ability to visualise coherent spatial environments. I am also interested in the early ontogeny of the human hippocampus. More specifically, I am interested in understanding how infants and young children learn to remember their personal pasts and to imagine their personal futures. I aim to use a combination of behavioural testing (in healthy and neurological populations) and brain imaging (high-resolution structural and functional MRI) to address these questions.

Teaching

PSY3027 Developmental Disorders

PSY2004 Individual Differences

Publications
  • Mullally SL, Maguire EA. . Brain and Cognition 2013, 82(1), 100-107.
  • Mullally SL, Maguire EA. . Neuroscientist 2014, 20(3), 220-234.
  • Mullally SL, O'Mara SM. . PLoS One 2013, 8(1), e50814.
  • Chadwick MJ, Mullally SL, Maguire EA. . Cortex 2013, 49(8), 2067-2079.
  • Maguire EA, Mullally SL. . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 2013, 142(4), 1180-1189.
  • Mullally SL, Intraub H, Maguire EA. . Current Biology 2012, 22(4), 261-268.
  • Zeidman P, Mullally SL, Schwarzkopf DS, Maguire EA. . NeuroReport 2012, 23(8), 503-507.
  • Auger SD, Mullally SL, Maguire EA. . PLoS ONE 2012, 7(8), e43620.
  • Mullally SL, Hassabis D, Maguire EA. . Journal of Neuroscience 2012, 32(16), 5646-5653.
  • Mullally SL, Maguire EA. . Journal of Neuroscience 2011, 31(20), 7441-7449.
  • Griffin ÉW, Mullally S, Foley C, Warmington SA, O'Mara SM, Kelly AM. . Physiology & Behavior 2011, 104(5), 934-941.
  • Correia N, Mullally S, Cooke G, Tun TK, Phelan N, Feeney J, Fitzgibbon M, Boran G, O'Mara S, Gibney J. . Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2009, 94(10), 3798-3797.
  • Roche RA, Mullally SL, McNulty JP, Hayden J, Brennan P, Doherty CP, Fitzsimons M, McMackin D, Prendergast J, Sukumaran S, Mangaoang MA, Robertson IH, O'Mara SM. . BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10(1), 136.
  • Lad M, Mullally SL, Houston AL, Kelly T, Griffiths TD. . Hippocampus 2019, 29(11), 1114-1120.
  • Jajdelska E, Anderson M, Butler C, Fabb N, Finnigan E, Garwood I, Kelly S, Kirk W, Kukkonen K, Mullally S, Schwan S. . Frontiers in Psychology 2019, 10, 1161.
  • De Luca F, McCormick C, Mullally SL, Intraub H, Maguire EA, Ciaramelli E. . Cortex 2018, 108, 1-12.
  • Maguire EA, Intraub H, Mullally SL. . Neuroscientist 2016, 22(5), 432-439.
  • Mullally SL. . International Journal of Behavioral Development 2015, 39(4), 306-307.
  • Mullally SL, Maguire EA. . Hippocampus 2014, 24(11), 1261-1266.
  • Cooke G, Mullally S, Correia N, O'Mara S, Gibney J. . Thyroid 2014, 24(3), 433-440.
  • Mullally SL, Maguire EA. . Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2014, 9, 12-29.
  • Mullally SL, Vargha-Khadem F, Maguire EA. . Neuropsychologia 2014, 52, 1-10.
  • Smith KJ, Mullally S, McLoughlin D, O'Mara SM. . Frontiers in Psychology 2014, 5, 92.