TUIHANA RANGAHAU/AUT RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Publications

Browse some of our recent research publications.

2025 publications

  1. Barlow, K. M., Ponsford, J. L., Theadom, A., Cowan, G., Davis, G. A., Anderson, V. et al. Mild traumatic brain injury and concussion and persisting post-concussion symptoms: New guidelines to support evidence-based assessment and management in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Medical Journal of Australia, 2025, 223(9): 446-449. http://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.70082
  2. Bedggood, M. J., Essex, C. A., Theadom, A., Murray, H., Hume, P., Holdsworth, S. J., Faull, R. L. M., & Pedersen, M. (2025). MRI‐T2 relaxometry is increased in mild traumatic brain injury: Indications of acute brain abnormalities after injury. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 103(4), e70034. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.70034
  3. Bhattacharyay, S., van Leeuwen, F. D., Beqiri, E., Åkerlund, C. A., Wilson, L., Steyerberg, E. W., Nelson, D. W., Maas, A. I. R., Menon, D. K., Ercole, A., & the CENTRE-TBI investigators and participants. (2025). TILTomorrow today: Dynamic factors predicting changes in intracranial pressure treatment intensity after traumatic brain injury. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 95. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83862-x
  4. Blyth, R., Farrell, G., Zoellner, A., Ahmed, O., Bussey, M., Galea, O., & Sole, G. (2025). What factors influence head acceleration during a purposeful header in soccer players? A systematic review. Sports Medicine. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-025-02209-2
  5. Blyth, R., Galea, O., Bussey, M., Ahmed, O. H., & Sole, G. (2025). Spare the brain: Female football players' perspectives of heading the ball, concussion knowledge and attitudes: A qualitative study. Science & Medicine in Football. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2025.2584090
  6. Blyth, R., Sole, G., Galea, O., Bussey, M., & Ahmed, O. (2025). Understanding female football (soccer) players' perception of heading the ball, concussion knowledge, and attitudes. New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 53(1), (pp. S18). https://doi.org/10.15619/ncjp.v53i1.478
  7. Bussey, M. D., Salmon, D., Nanai, B., Romanchuk, J., Gomez, R. M., Tong, D., Sole, G., Tucker, R., & Falvey, É. (2025). Contact role and tackle characteristics shape head acceleration exposure in male community rugby: A cohort study utilising instrumented mouthguards. Sports Medicine. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-025-02314-2
  8. Bussey, M. D., Salmon, D., Nanai, B., Romanchuk, J., Martin Gomez, R., Tong, D., Sole, G., Tucker, R., & Falvey, É. (2025). Assessing head acceleration events in female community rugby union players: A cohort study using instrumented mouthguards. Sports Medicine, 55, 499-512. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-024-02111-3
  9. Casper, S. T., P. Chazot, A. Ellison, J. Gates, I. R. Gottlieb, C. Gormally, M. Gormally, K. Hind, P. A. Hume, D. King, E. Sandel, A. Theadom and S. Tucker (2025). The Repercussion Group - Run It Straight: A Call to Action Against a Perfect Brain Injury Delivery System: 2.
  10. Courchesne, C., Nair, M. A., Gelineau, M., McCloskey, L., Faulkner, J., & Cairncross, M. (2025). Psychological transdiagnostic processes in mild traumatic brain injury recovery: A scoping review. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2025.07.014
  11. De Silva, U., Madanian, S., Olsen, S., Templeton, J., Poellabauer, C., Schneider, S., . . . Rahmina, R. (2025). Clinical decision support using speech signal analysis: Systematic scoping review of neurological disorders. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27. https://doi.org/10.2196/63004
  12. Essex, C. A., Merenstein, J. L., Overson, D. K., Truong, T. K., Madden, D. J., Bedggood, M. J., Murray, H., Holdsworth, S. J., Stewart, A. W., Morgan, C., Faull, R. L. M., Hume, P., Theadom, A., & Pedersen, M. (2025). Characterizing positive and negative quantitative susceptibility values in the cortex following mild traumatic brain injury: A depth-and curvature-based study. Cerebral Cortex, 35(3), bhaf059. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf059
  13. Essex, C. A., Overson, D. K., Merenstein, J. L., Truong, T. K., Madden, D. J., Bedggood, M. J., Morgan, C., Murray, H. C., Holdsworth, S. J., Stewart, A. W., Faull, R. L. M., Hume, P., Theadom, Al., & Pedersen, M. (2025). Mild traumatic brain injury increases cortical iron: Evidence from individual susceptibility mapping. Brain Communications, 7(2), fcaf110. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaf110
  14. Faulkner, J. W., Chua, J., Voice-Powell, A., Snell, D. L., Roche, M., Moffat, J., Barker-Collo, S., & Theadom, A. (2025). Experience of acceptance and commitment therapy for those with mild traumatic brain injury (ACTion mTBI): A qualitative descriptive study. PLoS One, 20(1), e0312940. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312940
  15. Faulkner, J., Prouty, D., Devlin, L., Appleton, D., Roche, M., Below, K., Moffat, J., Snell, D., Williams, M. N., Barko-Collo, S., & Theadom, A. (2025). Acceptance and commitment therapy for mild traumatic brain injury (ACTion-mTBI): A quasiexperimental feasibility study. BMJ Open, 15(2), e089727. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-089727
  16. Faulkner, J. W., Snell, D. L., & Siegert, R. J. (2025). Rasch analysis of the depression anxiety stress scales-21 (DASS-21) in a mild traumatic brain injury sample. Brain Injury, 39(2), 136-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2024.2411297
  17. Faulkner, J. W., Snell, D., Theadom, A., Siegert, R. J., Nielsen, K., & Williams, M. N. (2025). Identifying the bridges between post concussion symptoms and psychological distress in mild traumatic brain injury using network analysis. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 10-1097. https://doi.org/10.1097/HTR.0000000000001104
  18. Faulkner, J. W., Whiting, D., Theadom, A., Snell, D. L., Roche, M., & Barker-Collo, S. (2025). Valued living after mild traumatic brain injury: Characteristics and relationship with outcomes. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 35(1), 75-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2024.2328876
  19. Forch, K., Pedersen, M., Reid, D., Towersey, N. C., & Olsen, S. (2025). Use of physical exertion to enhance objective testing following mild traumatic brain injury: A systematic review. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2024-002385
  20. Fownes-Walpole, M., Heyward, O., Till, K., Mackay, L., Stodter, A., Al-Dawoud, M., Bussey, M. D., Gordon, L., Hairsine, J., Kirk, C., Madden, R., McBride, L., McDaniel, A., McKnight, P., Mill, N., Peek, K., Pratt, G., Ryan, D., Salmon, D., Schroeder, L., Twentyman, C., Versteegh, T., Williams, E., & Jones, B. (2025). Combining evidence and practice to optimise neck training aimed at reducing head acceleration events in sport: A systematic review and Delphi-consensus study. British Journal of Sports Medicine. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2024-108847
  21. Gao, T., Madanian, S., Templeton, J., & Merkin, A. (2025). Clinical decision support for Alzheimer's: Challenges in generalizable data-driven approach. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 329, 1780-1781. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251211
  22. Gosbee, H., Hume, P. A., & Theadom, A. (2025). Factors influencing equestrian helmet use, purchase and safety perceptions: A cross-sectional study. Injury, 112907 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2025.112907
  23. Hardaker, N. J., P. A. Hume, S. T. Sims, T. Stewart and D. A. King (2025). Association between salivary and blood hormone concentrations using an automated electrochemiluminescence immunoassay technique: Challenges and pitfalls. Experimental Physiology: 1-7.
  24. Hardaker, N. J., Hume, P. A., Collins, J. B., King, D. A., Sims, S. T., & Selfe, J. (2025). Differences between the sexes in concussion knowledge and attitudes in community football (soccer) players in New Zealand. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2025.02.005
  25. Henry, N. I., Pedersen, M., Williams, M., Martin, J. L., & Donkin, L. (2025). A hormetic approach to the value-loading problem: Preventing the paperclip apocalypse. SN Computer Science, 6(7), 872. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-025-04369-4
  26. Henry, N. I. N., Pedersen, M., Williams, M., Martin, J. L., & Donkin, L. (2025). Reducing echo chamber effects: An allostatic regulator for recommendation algorithms. Journal of Psychology and AI, 1(1), 2517191. https://doi.org/10.1080/29974100.2025.2517191
  27. Hume, P. A. & Kara, S. (2025). Special interest – High-speed harm: A sports science and medicine perspective on ‘Run It Straight’. New Zealand Journal of Sport Medicine, 51(2): 61-64.
  28. Hume, P. A., H., Fulcher, C., Dunshea-Mooij, H., Thorpe, S. T., Sims, H. E., Wyatt, S., Robson, C. E., Badenhorst, A. E., Kilding, K., Black, N., Draper, K. L., Schofield and A. Gibbons (2025). Special interest – advancing women’s health research in high performance sport: Initial scoping of New Zealand’s strengths, gaps, and global opportunities. New Zealand Journal of Sport Medicine, 51(2): 57-60.
  29. King, D., Hume, P., Theadom, A., & Hardaker, N. (2025). Costs and claims of traumatic brain injuries in New Zealand 2017-2023: A study based on National Insurance data. Brain Injury. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2025.2606899
  30. King, D. A., Hume, P. A., Theadom, A., & Valera, E. (2025). Intimate partner violence reporting and assessment of traumatic brain injuries and strangulation by a New Zealand hospital health service. Journal of Family Violence, 40(3), 515-527. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00642-3
  31. Madanian, S., & Gao, Y. (2025). Text analysis for depression detection: Mental health digital transformation. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 329, 1948-1949. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251293
  32. McGeown, J. P., Pedersen, M., Bussey, M., Schierding, W. S., Condron, P., Emsden, T., Nepe-Apatu, T., Tayebi, M., Kara, S., McDonald, M. A., Shim, V., Holdsworth, S. J., & Kwon, E. E. (2025). Longitudinal changes in network-based functional connectivity over a rugby season in adolescent males. medRxiv, 2025-03. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.16.25324069
  33. McGeown, J. P., Pedersen, M., Mito, R., Theadom, A., Maller, J. J., Condron, P., & Holdsworth, S. J. (2025). Neuroimaging correlates of symptom burden and functional recovery following mild traumatic brain injury: A systematic review. NeuroImage: Clinical. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2025.103910
  34. Mikolić, A., Snell, D. L., Theadom, A., Faulkner, J. W., Zemek, R., & Silverberg, N. D. (2025). The prognostic value of a screening tool for psychological risk factors after mild traumatic brain injury: Prospective studies in Canada and New Zealand. BMJ Open, 15(9), e089471. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-089471
  35. Nielsen, K., & Faulkner, J. (2025). Evaluating the complex systems approach to persisting post-concussion symptoms. Theory & Psychology, 35(1), 17-39. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543241287749
  36. Osterman, C., Hamlin, D., Suter, C. M., Affleck, A. J., Gloss, B. S., Turner, C. P., Faul, R. L. M., Stein, T. D., McKee, A., Buckland, M. E., Curtis, M. A., & Murray, H. C. (2025). Perivascular glial reactivity is a feature of phosphorylated tau lesions in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Acta Neuropathologica, 149(1), 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-025-02854-x
  37. Pedersen, M., Pardoe, H. R., de Weger, A., Hutchison, D., Abbott, D. F., Verspoor, K., Jackson, G. D., & the Australian Epilepsy Project Investigators. (2025). Toward responsible artificial intelligence in medicine: Reflections from the Australian epilepsy project. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 167, 103192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2025.103192
  38. Pool, J. W., Magee, W. L., Siegert, R. J., & Wood, C. L. (2025). The development and face validity of the music therapy sensory instrument for cognition, consciousness, and awareness (MuSICCA). Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1441178. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1441178
  39. Rubaiat, R., Templeton, J. M., Schneider, S. L., Silva, U. D., Madanian, S., & Poellabauer, C. (2025). Exploring speech biosignatures for traumatic brain injuryand neurodegeneration: A pilot machine learning study. JMIR Neurotechnology, 4. https://doi.org/10.2196/64624
  40. Shepherd, D., Pedersen, M., Vashista, G., Kercher, A., & Hautus, M. J. (2025). An electrophysiological investigation into 'Bagels': A song recorded to reduce subclinical anxiety in youth. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 19, 1640674. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2025.1640674
  41. Silva, U. D., Madanian, S., Narayanan, A., Templeton, J. M., Poellabauer, C., Schneider, S. L., & Rubaiat, R. (2025). A proof-of-concept development on speech analysis for concussion detection. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 329, 1008-1012. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI250991
  42. Snell, D. L., Faulkner, J. W., & Siegert, R. J. (2025). Preliminary validation of a 10-item version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale in a mild traumatic brain injury sample. Brain Impairment, 26(4), IB25025. https://doi.org/10.1071/IB25025
  43. Snell, D. L., Faulkner, J. W., Williman, J. A., Silverberg, N. D., Theadom, A., Surgenor, L. J., & Siegert, R. J. (2025). Associations between illness perceptions, distress, self-reported cognitive difficulties and cognitive performance after mild traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 26(3), IB24074. https://doi.org/10.1071/IB24074
  44. Snell, D. L., Mikolić, A., Faulkner, J. W., Theadom, A., & Silverberg, N. D. (2025). Comparative predictive validity of a psychological risk screening tool in adults after mild traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2025.2565640
  45. Snell, D. L., Wynands, P., Jennifer, A. D., Nunnerley, J., & Theadom, A. (2025). Screening and outcomes of co-occurring traumatic brain injury among people with spinal cord injury: A scoping review. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 57, 41897. https://doi.org/10.2340/jrm.v57.41897
  46. Song, Z., Arrowsmith, K., Pedersen, M., & Henare, D. (2025). Real-time EEG-based epileptic seizure prediction using artificial intelligence: A systematic review. medRxiv, 2025-10. ttps://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.09.25337692
  47. Thomas, E. J., Taylor, W. J., Siegert, R. J., & Levack, W. M. (2025). Brain Injury Sense of Self Scale: psychometric development of a new measure of strength of self-identity after traumatic brain injury. European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 61. https://doi.org/10.23736/S1973-9087.25.08721-0
  48. Tierney, G., Tucker, R., Tooby, J., Starling, L., Falvey, É., Salmon, D., Brown, J., Hudson, S., Stokes, K., Jones, B., KEmp, S., O’Halloran, P., Cross, M., Bussey, M., & Allan, D. (2025). Peak power: A severity measure for head acceleration events associated with suspected concussions. Sports Medicine. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-025-02308-0
  49. Turner-Stokes, L., Buchwald, K., Ashford, S. A., Fheodoroff, K., Jacinto, J., Narayanan, A., & Siegert, R. J. (2025). Pain reduction with repeated injections of botulinum toxin A in upper limb spasticity: A longitudinal analysis from the ULIS-III study. Toxins, 17(3), 117. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins17030117
  50. Tracey, I., Gomes, E., Signal, N., Alder, G., Forch, K., & Olsen, S. (2025). Highlighting gaps in the reporting of aerobic exercise interventions for mild traumatic brain injury: A systematic review using the TIDieR-Rehab checklist. JSAMS Plus, 6, 100120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsampl.2025.100120
  51. Van Deynse, H., Cools, W., De Deken, V. J., Depreitere, B., Hubloue, I., Tisseghem, E., Putman, K., & the CENTRE-TBI Collaborators (2025). One-year employment outcome prediction after traumatic brain injury. Disability and Health Journal, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2024.101716
  52. Whitehouse, D. P., Wilson, L., Czeiter, E., Buki, A., Wang, K. K. W., von Steinbüchel, N., Zeldovich, M., Steyerberg, E., Maas, A. I. R., Menon, D. K., Newcombe, V. F. J., & CENTER-TBI Investigators and Participants. (2025). Association of blood-based biomarkers and 6-month patient-reported outcomes in patients with mild TBI: A CENTER-TBI analysis. Neurology, 104(1):e210040. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000210040.
  53. Whiting, D. L., Faulkner, J. W., Gates, T., Metcalf, K., & Simpson, G. K. (2025). Inhibitory control underpins the relationship between cognitive and psychological inflexibility after a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Neuropsychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0001018
  54. Yasinzai, M. N., Mito, R., & Pedersen, M. (2025). BrainScape: An open-source framework for integrating and preprocessing anatomical MRI datasets. Imaging Neuroscience, 3, IMAG-a. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.944
  55. Zamani, S., Rostami, A., Nguyen, M., Sinha, R., & Madanian, S. (2025). A gamified AI-driven system for depression monitoring and management. Applied Sciences, 15 (13). https://doi.org/10.3390/app15137088
  56. Zamani, S., Sinha, R., Nguyen, M., & Madanian, S. (2025). Enhancing emotional sell-Being with IoT data solutions for depression: A systematic review. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1109/jbhi.2024.3501254
  57. Zangi, M., Pickering, J. W., Theadom, A., Than, M., & Snell, D. L. (2025). Mild and moderate traumatic brain injury: Screening, documentation, and referral to concussion services. Australasian Emergency Care. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.auec.2025.03.007