Claire Cadwallader, PhD

Postdoc Scholar
Neurology
[email protected]

Claire is a postdoctoral fellow in neuropsychology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center under the mentorship of Associate Professor Kaitlin Casaletto. Her research interests involve the role of lifestyle factors, such as physical activity, in supporting healthy brain ageing and protecting against neurodegenerative disease. Originally from New Zealand, she completed her PhD (Clinical Neuropsychology) at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Her PhD investigated acute exercise as a modifier of neuroplasticity in healthy young and older adults using non-invasive brain stimulation and EEG techniques.

Publications: 

High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults.

NPJ science of learning

Taylor EM, Cadwallader CJ, Curtin D, Chong TT, Hendrikse JJ, Coxon JP

Ageing attenuates exercise-enhanced motor cortical plasticity.

The Journal of physiology

Curtin D, Cadwallader CJ, Taylor EM, Andrews SC, Stout JC, Hendrikse JJ, Chong TT, Coxon JP

Acute exercise as a modifier of neocortical plasticity and aperiodic activity in the visual cortex.

Scientific reports

Cadwallader CJ, Steiniger J, Cooper PS, Zhou SH, Hendrikse J, Sumner RL, Kirk IJ, Chong TT, Coxon JP

Cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light chain differentiates behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia progressors from non-progressors.

Journal of the neurological sciences

Eratne D, Keem M, Lewis C, Kang M, Walterfang M, Farrand S, Loi S, Kelso W, Cadwallader C, Berkovic SF, Li QX, Masters CL, Collins S, Santillo A, Velakoulis D, MiND Study Group

Cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light chain differentiates primary psychiatric disorders from rapidly progressive, Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal disorders in clinical settings.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Eratne D, Loi SM, Li QX, Stehmann C, Malpas CB, Santillo A, Janelidze S, Cadwallader C, Walia N, Ney B, Lewis V, Senesi M, Fowler C, McGlade A, Varghese S, Ravanfar P, Kelso W, Farrand S, Keem M, Kang M, Goh AMY, Dhiman K, Gupta V, Watson R, Yassi N, Kaylor-Hughes C, Kanaan R, Perucca P, Dobson H, Vivash L, Ali R, O'Brien TJ, Hansson O, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Walterfang M, Masters CL, Berkovic SF, Collins S, Velakoulis D, MiND Study Group

What's off-key in the brain of musicians with focal task-specific dystonia?

The Journal of physiology

Cadwallader CJ, Curtin D, Taylor EM, Coxon JP