Julie Irwin

Program affiliation: Clinical Neuropsychology

Supervisor: Dr. Kimberly Kerns

Research interests

I am studying the effect of cardiorespiratory exercise on aspects of cognition, behaviour, and mood in children and adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders via exercise-induced increases in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).

Awards

2011-2012 — Norma M. Wilson Graduate Scholarship
2010 — CCDP Teaching Assistant Award
2010-2011 — Petch Research Scholarship
2010-2011 — University of Victoria Fellowship
2009-2010 — NSERC PGS-M
2009-2010 — University of Victoria President's Scholarship

Representative publications and presentations

Irwin, J. K., Joschko, M., MacDonald, S., & Kerns, K. A. (2011). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS) in typically-developing Canadian children. Final Program, Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting International Neuropsychological Society. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 17, pp i-334.

Irwin. J.K., MacSween, J., Kerns, K.A. (2011). History and evolution of the autism spectrum disorders. In J.L. Matson & P. Sturmey (eds.), International handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders. New York: Springer.

Irwin, J., Choleris, E., Gray, D., Mittelholz, J. The role of the D1 receptor in social learning of a food preference. Poster presented at the Ontario Undergraduate Thesis Conference at the University of Toronto, April 28, 2007.

Gray, D.G., Irwin, J., Mittelholtz, J., Choleris, E. (2008). Differential effects of a D1 antagonist in social behavior and feeding. International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Abstracts, 24.

Gray, D., Irwin, J., Mittelhotz, J., Choleris, E. (2007). A dopamine receptor D1 antagonist attenuates feeding and social behavior in male rats. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 644(6).