Kelly Atkins, PhD

Neuropsychology Fellow
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Fields of Interest: 
Neuropsychology

Dr. Kelly Atkins is a Clinical Neuropsychologist from Melbourne Australia, completing postdoctoral research at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center in the Department of Neurology. She graduated from Monash University in 2021 with a doctorate in Clinical Neuropsychology and completed her registrar training at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, before moving to Weill Cornell Medicine on a postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship. Kelly's research interests focus on the measurement of cognitive and neuropsychiatric changes in people with atypical neurodegenerative conditions.

Publications: 

The effect of Huntington's disease on cognitive and physical motivation.

Brain : a journal of neurology

Atkins KJ, Andrews SC, Stout JC, Chong TTJ

Examining Subjective Psychological Experiences of Postoperative Delirium in Older Cardiac Surgery Patients.

Anesthesia and analgesia

Cohen CL, Atkins KJ, Evered LA, Silbert BS, Scott DA

A qualitative examination of apathy and physical activity in Huntington's and Parkinson's disease.

Neurodegenerative disease management

Atkins KJ, Friel CP, Andrews SC, Chong TT, Stout JC, Quinn L

Inflammatory Biomarker Levels After Propofol or Sevoflurane Anesthesia: A Meta-analysis.

Anesthesia and analgesia

O'Bryan LJ, Atkins KJ, Lipszyc A, Scott DA, Silbert BS, Evered LA

Digital clock drawing test metrics in older patients before and after endoscopy with sedation: An exploratory analysis.

Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Buckley RA, Atkins KJ, Silbert B, Scott DA, Evered L

Heightened effort discounting is a common feature of both apathy and fatigue.

Scientific reports

Jurgelis M, Chong WB, Atkins KJ, Cooper PS, Coxon JP, Chong TT

Multidimensional Apathy: The Utility of the Dimensional Apathy Scale in Huntington's Disease.

Movement disorders clinical practice

Atkins KJ, Andrews SC, Chong TT, Stout JC

A novel digital clock drawing test as a screening tool for perioperative neurocognitive disorders: A feasibility study.

Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Buckley RA, Atkins KJ, Fortunato E, Silbert B, Scott DA, Evered L

Dissociable Motivational Deficits in Pre-manifest Huntington's Disease.

Cell reports. Medicine

Atkins KJ, Andrews SC, Stout JC, Chong TT

Altering Visual Perception Abnormalities: A Marker for Body Image Concern.

PloS one

Beilharz FL, Atkins KJ, Duncum AJ, Mundy ME