Skye Mcdonald PhD

Skye McDonald is a Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at UNSW Australia. Professor McDonald is interested in studying social, emotional, and communication disorders as well as neuropsychological rehabilitation, more generally. She has developed novel approaches to assess and remediate emotion perception, social skills, and communication in patients suffering a traumatic brain injury. Her work extends to other neurological disorders such as dementia and developmental disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Professor McDonald leads a national Centre of Research Excellence “Moving Ahead” to address psychosocial rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury. With colleagues, she has also developed PsycBITE, a database freely available on the internet that indexes all research ever published in English that provides empirical evidence attesting to the efficacy of treatment for neuropsychological disorders arising from acquired brain disorders.