Dr Sinead Rhodes
Senior Research Fellow, SMC Research Centre
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Child Life and Health, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health
- SMC Research Centre
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 536 0642
- Email: sinead.rhodes@ed.ac.uk
Qualifications
2008: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Dundee, Neuropsychopharmacology of ADHD
1996: Master of Letters, University College Dublin
1993: Bachelor of Arts, University College Dublin
Research summary
Sinéad is a developmental psychologist who is interested in the cognitive factors underlying behaviour and learning. Her research has principally focused on cognition, especially memory and associated executive functions, in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD, ASD and Williams syndrome.
She also examines cognitive factors underlying mental health especially depression and anxiety, and is particularly interested in cognition and depression within the context of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Sinéad is extensively involved in public engagement activities: she is the founder of the Research the Headlines project and was awarded the 2017 Royal Society of Edinburgh Innovators Public Engagement Prize.
Sinead is an Emeritus member of the Young Academy of Scotland.
Research aims & areas of interest
- Executive functions in ADHD and Williams syndrome
- Cognitive predictors of mathematics and literacy in ADHD
- Effects of stimulant medication on cognition and behaviour in ADHD
- Tailored interventions to improve learning in ADHD
- Autobiographical memory, executive control and depression
- Cognitive factors underlying depression in ASD
- Social cognition in neurodevelopmental disorders
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Peer Relationships in Children with Williams Syndrome: Parent and Teacher Insights
In:
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Developmental changes in executive functions during adolescence: A study of inhibition, shifting, and working memory
In:
British journal of developmental psychology, vol. 38, pp. 74-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12307
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Immediate impact of fantastical television content on children’s executive functions
(21 pages)
In:
British journal of developmental psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12318
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Joint production of research priorities to improve the lives of those with childhood onset conditions that impair learning: the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership for ‘learning difficulties’
In:
BMJ Open
DOI: https://doi.org/doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028780
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Reflective pondering is associated with executive control for emotional information: An adolescent prospective study
In:
Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry, pp. 101486
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2019.101486
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)