The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Dr Rebbekah Atkinson
School: School of Psychology
Commenced with Institution: 13-DEC-1999
Personal URL:

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Dr Rebbekah Atkinson 2008 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant 6th International Conference on Early Psychosis, Melbourne, Australia, 20/10/2008 - 22/10/2008   1250  
Dr Paul Tooney;Professor Patricia Michie;Assoc. Prof Ulrich Schall;Professor Rodney Scott;Dr Helen Stain;Dr Rebbekah Atkinson 2008 1 Hunter Medical Research Institute Project - Project Grant Brain Science and Young People?s Mental Health: A gene expression study in young people at ultra high risk of developing schizophrenia   25000  

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Atkinson Rebbekah Josephine, Migues Paola Virginia, Cammarota Martin, Kavanagh Jacinta Mary, Hunter Michael, Rostas John Andrew, ’Biochemical, behavioural and electrophysiological investigations of brain maturation in chickens’, Brain Research Bulletin, 76 217-223 (2008) [C1]

Atkinson Rebbekah Josephine, Migues Paola Virginia, Hunter Michael, Rostas John Andrew, ’Molecular changes in the intermediate medial mesopallium after a one trial avoidance learning in immature and mature chickens’, Journal of Neurochemistry, 104 891-902 (2008) [C1]

Migues Paola Virginia, Cammarota Martin Pablo, Kavanagh J, Atkinson Rebbekah Josephine, Powis David Alan, Rostas John Andrew, ’Maturational changes in the subunit composition of AMPA receptors and the functional consequences of their activation in chicken forebrain’, Developmental Neuroscience, 29 232-240 (2007) [C1]

Atkinson Rebbekah Josephine, Migues Paola Virginia, Hunter Michael, Rostas John Andrew, ’Molecular changes in Intermediate Medial Mesopallium (IMM) after one trial avoidance learning in immature and mature chicken’, Journal of Neurochemistry, 1-12 (2007) [C1]

Atkinson Rebbekah Josephine, Bevilaqua Lia, Rostas John Andrew, Hunter Michael, ’Discriminative taste aversion learning: A learning task for older chickens’, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 79 25-31 (2003) [C1]

Conference Publication

Hunter Michael, Atkinson Rebbekah Josephine, Rostas John Andrew, ’Perturbed maturation in chicken forebrain via the induction of mild hypothyroidism: developmental changes measured by auditory event related potentials (Poster)’, 7th IBRO 2007 World Congress of Neuroscience Program, Melbourne (2007) [E3]

Atkinson Rebbekah Josephine, Thomas (Duff) L, Migues Paola Virginia, Fluechter Lisa Maree, Rostas John Andrew, Hunter Michael, ’Perturbed maturation in the chicken forebrain by the induction of late onset mild hypo-thyroidsim’, Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Sydney (2006) [E3]

McFadden Sally Anne, Atkinson Rebbekah Josephine, Avila Natalia, Howlett Marcus Christian, Hunter Michael, ’The Effect of Hypothyroidism on Eye Growth and Emmetropisation in the Chick’, Investigative Ophthalmology Visual Science: Proceedings of the ARVO 2006 Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2006) [E3]

Atkinson Rebbekah Josephine, Migues Paola Virginia, Fluechter Lisa Maree, Hunter Michael, Rostas John Andrew, ’Biochemical characterisation of maturational changes in components of glutamatergic synapses in the chick IMHV’, Australian Neuroscience Society: Proceedings of the 25th Annual, Perth, Australia (2005) [E3]

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