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Sumie Leung
sumieleung@ub.edu
+34.93.312.50.43

Personal information
Born in Hong Kong, 1st September 1980

Education
Oct 2004 – Mar 2008 PhD (Neuroscience) –Thesis titled:“Determining the pharmacology of mismatch negativity: an electrophysiological investigation in healthy subjects” -- Brain Sciences Institute – Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) (Supervisors: Prof Rodney Croft and A/Prof. Pradeep Nathan)
Jan 2004 – Oct 2004 Master by Research (Neuroscience) - Converted to PhD –Brain Sciences Institute – Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia)
Jan 2000 – Dec 2003 Bachelor of Science (Medical Biophysics & Instrumentation) – Swinburne University of Technology – Melbourne, Australia

Current position
December 2010 – Current Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology University of Barcelona (UB)

Research interests
Hierarchical processing of auditory novelty detection

Current projects
My current research project is one dimension of a broader research project, which aims to use a common paradigm in both animals and humans to examine how different levels of complexity being encoded in different levels of the auditory system.

Publications

Oliva J, Leung S, Croft RJ, O'Neill BV, Stout J & Nathan PJ. Evidence for Gender (in Press) Differences in the Loudness Dependence Auditory Evoked Potential (LDAEP) in humans. Human Psychopharmacology, Accepted in February 2011

O'Neill, B V , Croft, R J, Mann C, Dang O, Leung S, Galloway MP, Phan K L & Nathan, P J (in Press) High dose glycine impairs the prepulse inhibition measure of sensorimotor gating in humans. Journal of Psychopharmacology, Accepted in April 2010

Croft, R J, Leung S, McKenzie RJ, Loughran SP, Iskra S, Hamblin DL & Cooper NR (2010) Effects of 2G and 3G mobile phones on human alpha rhythms: resting EEG in adolescents, young adults and older adults. Bioelectromagnetics, 31 (6):434-44.

Oliva J, Leung S, Croft RJ, O'Neill BV, O'Kane J, Stout J, Phan KL, Nathan PJ. (2010) The loudness dependence auditory evoked potential is insensitive to acute changes in serotonergic and noradrenergic neurotransmission. Human Psychopharmacology, 25(5):423-427.

Leung S, Croft RJ, Guille V, Scholes, K E, O'Neill BV, Phan KL, Nathan PJ. (2010) Acute dopamine and/or serotonin depletion does not modulate mismatch negativity (MMN) in healthy human participants. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 208(2):233-44.

O'Neill BV, Guille V, Croft RJ, Leung S, Scholes KE, Phan KL, Nathan PJ. (2008) Effects of selective and combined serotonin and dopamine depletion on the loudness dependence of the auditory evoked potential (LDAEP) in humans. Human Psychopharmacology, 23(4):301-12.

Palmer C, Ellis KA, O'Neill BV, Croft RJ, Leung S, Oliver C, Wesnes KA, Nathan PJ. (2008) The cognitive effects of modulating the glycine site of the NMDA receptor with high-dose glycine in healthy controls. Human Psychopharmacology, 23(2):151-9.

Leung S, Croft RJ, O'Neill BV, Nathan PJ. (2008) Acute high-dose glycine attenuates mismatch negativity (MMN) in healthy human controls. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 196(3):451-60.

Mann, C, Croft, R J, Scholes, K E, Dunne, A, O'Neill B, V, Leung, S, Copolov, D, Phan, K L & Nathan, P J, (2008) Differential Effects of Acute Serotonin and Dopamine Depletion on Prepulse Inhibition and P50 Suppression Measures of Sensorimotor and Sensory Gating in Humans, Neuropsychopharmacology, 33(7):1653-66.

Leung, S, Croft, R J, Baldeweg, T, Nathan, P J, (2007) Acute Dopamine D1 and D2 Receptor Stimulation Does Not Modulate Mismatch Negativity (MMN) In Healthy Human Subjects, Psychopharmacology (Berl), 194(4):443-51.

O'Neill, B V, Croft, R J, Leung, S, Oliver, C, Phan, K L & Nathan, P J, (2007) High Dose Glycine inhibits the Loudness Dependence of the Auditory Evoked Potentials (LDAEP) in Healthy Humans, Psychopharmacology (Berl), 195(1):85-93.

Scholes, K E, Harrison, B J, O'Neill B, V, Leung, S, Croft, R J, Pipingas, A, Phan, K L & Nathan, P J (2007), Acute Serotonin and Dopamine Depletion Improves Attentional Control: Findings from the Stroop Task, Neuropsychopharmacology, 32(7):1600-10.

O'Neill, B V, Croft, R J, Leung, S, Guille, V, Galloway, M, Phan, K L & Nathan, P J (2006), Dopamine receptor stimulation does not modulate the loudness dependence of the auditory evoked potential in humans, Psychopharmacology (Berl), 188 (1):92-9.

Nagata, K, Sato, M, Satoh, Y, Watahiki, Y, Kondoh, Y, Sugawara, M, Box, G, Wright, D, Leung, S, Yuya, H & Shimosegawa, E (2002), Hemodynamic aspects of Alzheimer's disease, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 977: 391-402.


Technical skills

Neuroscan software packages, including STIM, ACQUIRE and EDIT

EEG: Electrical Geodesics Incorporated (EGI) software packages

EEG: Brain Vision Analyzer


Languages
Cantonese (mother tongue), English, Mandarin (basic)