Dr Megan Barker
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Queensland Brain Institute
Book Chapter
Barker, Megan S., Gibson, Emily C. and Robinson, Gail A. (2018). Acquired brain injury (stroke and TBI) in later life. Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Psychology. (pp. 1-30) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.412
Journal Articles
Barker, Megan S., Dodge, Shana G., Niehoff, Debra, Denny, Sharon, Dacks, Penny A., Dickinson, Susan, Cosentino, Stephanie and Wheaton, Dianna K. H. (2023). Living with frontotemporal degeneration: diagnostic journey, symptom experiences, and disease impact. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 36 (3), 201-214. doi: 10.1177/08919887221119976
Knight, Jacquelyn L., Barker, Megan S., Edwards, Timothy J., Barnby, Joseph M., Richards, Linda J. and Robinson, Gail A. (2023). Mirror movements and callosal dysgenesis in a family with a DCC mutation: Neuropsychological and neuroimaging outcomes. Cortex, 161, 38-50. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.01.008
Chapman, Silvia, Rentería, Miguel Arce, Dworkin, Jordan D, Garriga, Stella M, Barker, Megan S, Avila-Rieger, Justina, Gonzalez, Christopher, Joyce, Jillian L, J Vonk, Jet M, Soto, Elizabeth, Manly, Jennifer J, Brickman, Adam, Mayeux, Richard and Cosentino, Stephanie A (2023). Association of subjective cognitive decline with progression to dementia in a cognitively unimpaired multiracial community sample. Neurology, 100 (10), e1020-e1027. doi: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000201658
Sejourne, Corinne, Dworkin, Jordan D., Barker, Megan S., Manoochehri, Masood, Gottesman, Reena T., Wassermann, Eric M., Tierney, Michael C., Huey, Edward D. and Grafman, Jordan (2023). Demographic and symptom correlates of initial idiopathic psychiatric diagnosis in frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 36 (3), 193-200. doi: 10.1177/08919887221130267
Chapman, Silvia, Weiss, David, Broulíková, Hana M., Sunderaraman, Preeti, Barker, Megan S., Joyce, Jillian L., Azar, Martina, McKeague, Ian, Kriesl, William C. and Cosentino, Stephanie (2022). Examining the role of aging perceptions in subjective cognitive decline. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 36 (4), 288-294. doi: 10.1097/wad.0000000000000518
Silverman, Hannah E., Ake, Jeannie M., Manoochehri, Masood, Appleby, Brian S., Brushaber, Danielle, Devick, Katrina L., Dickerson, Bradford C., Fields, Julie A., Forsberg, Leah K., Ghoshal, Nupur, Graff-Radford, Neill R., Grossman, Murray, Heuer, Hilary W., Kornak, John, Lapid, Maria, Litvan, Irene, Mackenzie, Ian R., Mendez, Mario F., Onyike, Chiadi U., Pascual, Belen, Tartaglia, Maria Carmela, Boeve, Bradley F., Boxer, Adam L., Rosen, Howard J., Cosentino, Stephanie, Huey, Edward D., Barker, Megan S. and Goldman, Jill S. (2022). The contribution of behavioral features to caregiver burden in FTLD spectrum disorders. Alzheimers and Dementia, 18 (9), 1635-1649. doi: 10.1002/alz.12494
Barker, Megan S., Cosentino, Stephanie A., Fremont, Rachel, Devanand, Davangere P. and Huey, Edward D. (2022). Towards defining the neuroanatomical basis of late-onset psychiatric symptoms. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 35 (6), 751-762. doi: 10.1177/08919887221090213
Barker, Megan S., Gottesman, Reena T., Manoochehri, Masood, Chapman, Silvia, Appleby, Brian S., Brushaber, Danielle, Devick, Katrina L., Dickerson, Bradford C., Domoto-Reilly, Kimiko, Fields, Julie A., Forsberg, Leah K., Galasko, Douglas R., Ghoshal, Nupur, Goldman, Jill, Graff-Radford, Neill R., Grossman, Murray, Heuer, Hilary W., Hsiung, Ging-Yuek, Knopman, David S., Kornak, John, Litvan, Irene, Mackenzie, Ian R., Masdeu, Joseph C., Mendez, Mario F., Pascual, Belen, Staffaroni, Adam M., Tartaglia, Maria Carmela, Boeve, Bradley F., Boxer, Adam L. ... Huey, Edward D. (2022). Proposed research criteria for prodromal behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. Brain, 145 (3), 1079-1097. doi: 10.1093/brain/awab365
Chapman, Silvia, Joyce, Jillian L., Barker, Megan S., Sunderaraman, Preeti, Rizer, Sandra, Huey, Edward D., Dworkin, Jordan, Gu, Yian and Cosentino, Stephanie (2022). Subjective cognitive decline is more accurate when metamemory is better. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14 787552. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.787552
Barker, Megan S., Bender, J. Reuben, Chow, Jessica and Robinson, Gail A. (2022). An emotion-eliciting version of the Hayling Sentence Completion Test. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 44 (9), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2022.2157797
Yudkovicz, Julia J., Minster, Ryan L., Barinas-Mitchell, Emma, Christensen, Kaare, Feitosa, Mary, Barker, Megan S., Newman, Anne B. and Kuipers, Allison L. (2021). Pleiotropic effects between cardiovascular disease risk factors and measures of cognitive and physical function in long-lived adults. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 17980, 1-9. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-97298-0
Barker, Megan S., Manoochehri, Masood, Rizer, Sandra J., Appleby, Brian S., Brushaber, Danielle, Dev, Sheena, Devick, Katrina L., Dickerson, Bradford C., Fields, Julie A., Foroud, Tatiana M., Forsberg, Leah K., Galasko, Douglas R., Ghoshal, Nupur, Graff-Radford, Neill R., Grossman, Murray, Heuer, Hilary W., Hsiung, Ging-Yuek, Kornak, John, Litvan, Irene, Mackenzie, Ian R., Mendez, Mario F., Pascual, Belen, Rankin, Katherine P., Rascovsky, Katya, Staffaroni, Adam M., Tartaglia, Maria Carmela, Weintraub, Sandra, Wong, Bonnie, Boeve, Bradley F. ... Cosentino, Stephanie (2021). Recognition memory and divergent cognitive profiles in prodromal genetic frontotemporal dementia. Cortex, 139, 99-115. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.03.006
Barker, Megan S., Knight, Jacquelyn L., Dean, Ryan J., Mandelstam, Simone, Richards, Linda J. and Robinson, Gail A. (2021). Verbal Adynamia and Conceptualization in Partial Rhombencephalosynapsis and Corpus Callosum Dysgenesis. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 34 (1), 38-52. doi: 10.1097/wnn.0000000000000261
Chapman, Silvia, Sunderaraman, Preeti, Joyce, Jillian L., Azar, Martina, Colvin, Leigh E., Barker, Megan S., McKeague, Ian, Kreisl, William C. and Cosentino, Stephanie (2021). Optimizing subjective cognitive decline to detect early cognitive dysfunction. Journal of Alzheimers Disease, 80 (3), 1185-1196. doi: 10.3233/jad-201322
Du, Mengtian, Andersen, Stacy L., Schupf, Nicole, Feitosa, Mary F., Barker, Megan S., Perls, Thomas T. and Sebastiani, Paola (2021). Association between APOE alleles and change of neuropsychological tests in the Long Life family Study. Journal of Alzheimers Disease, 79 (1), 117-125. doi: 10.3233/jad-201113
Barker, Megan S., Ceslis, Amelia and Robinson, Gail A. (2020). Idea selection for propositional language production. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, 29 (2), 1-24. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2020.1862044
Mosley, Philip E., Robinson, Katherine, Coyne, Terry, Silburn, Peter, Barker, Megan S., Breakspear, Michael, Robinson, Gail A. and Perry, Alistair (2020). Subthalamic deep brain stimulation identifies frontal networks supporting initiation, inhibition and strategy use in Parkinson's disease. NeuroImage, 223 117352, 1-19. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117352
Sunderaraman, Preeti, Barker, Megan, Chapman, Silvia and Cosentino, Stephanie (2020). Assessing numerical reasoning provides insight into financial literacy. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 29 (4), 710-717. doi: 10.1080/23279095.2020.1805745
Sunderaraman, Preeti, Chapman, Silvia, Barker, Megan S. and Cosentino, Stephanie (2020). Self-awareness for financial decision-making abilities in healthy adults. PLoS One, 15 (7) e0235558, 1-14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235558
Barker, Megan S., Bidstrup, Emma M., Robinson, Gail A. and Nelson, Nicole L. (2020). "Grumpy" or "furious"? arousal of emotion labels influences judgments of facial expressions. PLoS One, 15 (7) e0235390, 1-18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235390
Barker, Megan S., Silverman, Hannah E., Fremont, Rachel, Manoochehri, Masood, Cosentino, Stephanie and Huey, Edward D. (2020). "Everything hurts!" Distress in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia. Cortex, 127, 396-398. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.03.002
Barker, Megan S., Nelson, Nicole L. and Robinson, Gail A. (2020). Idea formulation for spoken language production: the interface of cognition and language. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 26 (2), 226-240. doi: 10.1017/s1355617719001097
Silverman, Hannah E., Gazes, Yunglin, Barker, Megan S., Manoochehri, Masood, Goldman, Jill S., Wassermann, Eric M., Tierney, Michael C., Cosentino, Stephanie, Grafman, Jordan and Huey, Edward D. (2020). Frontal pole hypometabolism linked to reduced prosocial sexual behaviors in frontotemporal dementia and corticobasal syndrome. Journal of Alzheimers Disease, 77 (2), 821-830. doi: 10.3233/jad-200346
Martin, A. K., Barker, M. S., Gibson, E. C. and Robinson, G. A. (2019). Response initiation and inhibition and the relationship with fluid intelligence across the adult lifespan. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 36 (2), 231-242. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acz044
Barker, Megan S. and Robinson, Gail A. (2019). Selection for sentence generation in the context of severe anomia: A case series of left temporal patients. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 41 (4), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2018.1562050
Barker, Megan S., Nelson, Nicole L., O'Sullivan, John D., Adam, Robert and Robinson, Gail A. (2018). Energization and spoken language production: evidence from progressive supranuclear palsy. Neuropsychologia, 119, 349-362. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.09.004
Gibson, Emily C., Barker, Megan S., Martin, Andrew K. and Robinson, Gail A. (2018). Initiation, Inhibition and Strategy Generation Across the Healthy Adult Lifespan. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 34 (4), 511-523. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acy057
Barker, Megan S., Young, Breanne and Robinson, Gail A. (2017). Cohesive and coherent connected speech deficits in mild stroke. Brain and Language, 168, 23-36. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2017.01.004
Mishra, Gita D., Barker, Megan S., Herber-Gast, Gerrie-Cor and Hillard, Tim (2015). Depression and the incidence of urinary incontinence symptoms among young women: results from a prospective cohort study. Maturitas, 81 (4), 456-461. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2015.05.006
Conference Paper
Barker, Megan S., Joyce, Jillian L., Dodge, Shana G., Niehoff, Debra, Denny, Sharon S., Dacks, Penny A., Dickinson, Susan, Cosentino, Stephanie and Wheaton, Dianna K.H. (2022). Chronicling the diagnostic journey, symptom experiences, and disease impact in frontotemporal degeneration. Alzheimer’s Association International Conference AAIC 2022, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16-20 July 2023. Hoboken, NJ United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/alz.063468
Theses
Barker, Megan Signe (2018). The role of attention and emotion in message formulation. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2018.735
Barker, Megan (2012). The role of neonatal imitation in the development of early bonds and the experience of parental efficacy. Honours Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.