Name:        
Dr. Leonie J Cole

Email: leonie.cole(at)florey.edu.au

Qualifications:      
BBSc (Hons) (2002) La Trobe University

Position:
PhD Student, Howard Florey Institute and Centre for Neuroscience

Affiliations or relevant memberships:
Research Student, National Ageing Research Institute
Research Assistant, School of Psychological Sciences, La Trobe University
Honorary Research Fellow, National Trauma Research Institute, Alfred Hospital
Member of the International Association for the Study of Pain
Member of the Australian Neuroscience Society

Research Interests:

  • Functional brain imaging of pain
  • Pain and cognition
  • Ageing
  • Dementia

Selected Publications:
Cole, L.J., Farrell, M.F., Duff, E.P., Barber, B.J., Egan, G.F., & Gibson, S.J. (2006). Pain sensitivity and fMRI pain-related brain activity in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain, 129, 2957-2965  

McAllen, R.M., Farrell, M., Johnson, J.M., Trevaks, D., Cole, L., McKinley, M.J., Jackson, G., Denton, D.A., & Egan, G.F. (2006). Human medullary responses to cooling and rewarming the skin: A functional MRI study Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 103, 809-813

Cole, L. The effects of Alzheimer’s disease on pain-related brain activity. Invited Seminar, 26th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Pain Society, March, 2006.

Cole, L., Farrell, M.F., Egan, G.F., and Gibson, S.J. Age-related differences in fMRI pain-evoked brain activity. Proceedings of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping meeting, June, 2006

Carabott, L. Farrell, M., Egan, G., Barber, B., & Gibson S. Pain perception and fMRI pain-related brain activation in Alzheimer’s disease. Abstracts: 11th World Congress on Pain, Seattle IASP press, 2005.

Cunnington, R., Carabott, L., & Iansek, R. Increased activation of the supplementary motor area with attention to action in Parkinson’s disease: a study of event-related functional MRI. Proceedings of the Organization  of Human Brain Mapping meeting, June, 2004.

Carabott, L., Farrell, M., Cunnington, R., Egan, G., Jackson, G., Denton, D., McKinley, M., McAllen, R. Identifying human brain regions involved in thermoregulation. Proceedings of the Australian  Neuroscience Society meeting, January, 2004

Egan, G., Silk, T., Zamarippa, F., Williams, J., Federico, P., Cunnington, R., Carabott, L., Blair-West, J., Shade, R., McKinley, M., Farrell, M., Lancaster, J., Jackson, G., Fox, P., & Denton, D. (2003).Neural Correlates of the emergence of consciousness of thirst. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 15241-15246.