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Angela Haffenden

Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor

Division: Experimental Neurosciences

Programs: Movement Disorders

Degree: PhD

Registration: R. Psych.

Specialties: Neuropsychology, Visuomotor Control

Email: Angela.Haffenden@calgaryhealthregion.com

Telephone: 403-944-1340

Dr. Angela Haffenden is a Neuropsychologist with the Calgary Health Region and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

She graduated with a BSc in Psychology from the University of Calgary in 1994. She then obtained an MA and a PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, graduating in 2002.

Dr Haffenden is best known for her research contributions to the field of visually guided movement. Her current research interests involve the visual and cognitive aspects of movement in Parkinson's Disease.

Selected Publications:

Haffenden, A, Khan, U, Kiss, ZHT, Suchowersky, O. (in press). Surgery for Parkinson's disease improves disability but not impairment components of the UPDRS-II. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders.

Setiawan M, Kraft S, Doig K, Hunka K, Haffenden A, Trew M, Longman S, Ranawaya R, Furtado S, Lee RG, Suchowersky O, Kiss ZH. (2006). Referrals for movement disorder surgery: under-representation of females and reasons for refusal. Canadian  Journal of  Neurological Sciences,  33, 53-57.

Haffenden, A.M., & Goodale, M.A. (2002). Learned perceptual associations influence visuomotor programming under limited conditions: kinematic consistency. Experimental Brain Research, 147, 485-493.

Haffenden, A.M., & Goodale, M.A. (2002). Learned Perceptual Associations Influence Visuomotor Programming under Limited Conditions: Cues as Surface Patterns. Experimental Brain Research, 147, 473-484.

Danckert, J.A., Sharif, N., Haffenden, A.M., Schiff, K.C., & Goodale, M.A. (2002). A temporal analysis of grasping in the Ebbinghaus illusion: planning versus on-line control. Experimental Brain Research,144, 275-280.

Haffenden A.M., Schiff K.C., & Goodale M.A. (2001). The dissociation between perception and action in the Ebbinghaus illusion: nonillusory effects of pictorial cues on grasp. Current Biology, 6, 177-181