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Dr Adam Clemente

Senior Research Officer
Neuroscience of Addiction and Mental Health Program

Areas of expertise: intervention research; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; cognitive neuroscience; neuropsychology; project management; data analysis and visualisation

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4742-7015

Email: adam.clemente@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

As Senior Research Officer within the Neuroscience of Addiction and Mental Health Program. I provide high-level support for the Program research activities and manage all aspects of the Program research projects, including the coordination of students and staff for MRI data collection. In addition, I provide technical and MRI/statistical analysis support to Program students/staff, liaison with internal and external stakeholders, and support UG/PG students through their research.

I completed my PhD at the ACU Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research while lecturing and tutoring core units in the School of Psychology. My PhD focused on understanding and improving long term functional outcomes of moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), via combining detailed clinical profiling and MRI assessment. Specifically, my PhD examined white matter integrity using advanced Diffusion Magnetic Resonance imaging tools.

Select publications

Journal Articles

• Clemente, A., Dominguez D., J. F., Imms, P., Burmester, A., Dhollander, T., Wilson, P. H., Poudel, G., & Caeyenberghs, K. (2021). Individual differences in attentional lapses are associated with fibre specific white matter microstructure in healthy adults. Psychophysiology, 00:e13871. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13871
• Caeyenberghs, K., Clemente, A., Imms, P., Egan, G., Hocking, D. R., Leemans, A., ... Wilson, P. H. (2018). Evidence for training-dependent structural neuroplasticity in brain-injured patients: A critical review. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 32(2), 99-114. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968317753076
• Imms, P., Clemente, A., Cook, M., D’Souza, W., Wilson, P. H., Jones, D. K., & Caeyenberghs, K. (2019). The structural connectome in traumatic brain injury: A meta-analysis of graph metrics. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 99, 128-137 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.01.002
• Caeyenberghs, K., Verhelst, H., Clemente, A., & Wilson, P. H. (2017). Mapping the functional connectome in traumatic brain injury: What can graph metrics tell us?. Neuroimage, 160, 113-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.12.003
• Imms, P., Burmester, A., Seguin, C., Clemente, A., Dhollander, T., Wilson, P. H., ... & Caeyenberghs, K. (2021). Navigating the link between processing speed and network communication in the human brain. Brain Structure and Function, 226(4), 1281-1302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-021-02241-8

Projects

• Mapping and retrain dysfunctional brain networks using evidence-based interventions (2019-Current)

Accolades and awards

• Australian Psychological Society Prize, 2014
• Australian Postgraduate Award, 2016

Public engagement

• Special Guest on Einstein A Go-Go, Triple R FM Melbourne, May 2021