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Dr Adam Clemente

Lecturer (Psychology)
School of Behavioural and Health Sciences

Areas of expertise: traumatic brain injury (tbi); cognitive neuroscience; magnetic resonance imaging (mri); diffusion mri; neuroimaging; neuropsychology; brain and behaviour; data analysis and visualisation; intervention research; addiction

Phone: +61 3 9953 3433

Email: Adam.Clemente@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4742-7015

After completing a Bachelor of Psychological Sciences (Honours), I completed my PhD at the ACU Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, while lecturing and tutoring core undergraduate psychology units at the ACU Faculty of Health Sciences. My PhD focused on understanding and improving long term functional outcomes of moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), via combining detailed clinical profiling and MRI assessment. Specifically, my PhD examined white matter integrity using advanced Diffusion Magnetic Resonance imaging tools.

Upon completion of my PhD, in addition to the continuation of lecturing and tutoring core undergraduate psychology, I worked as a Senior Research Officer within the Neuroscience of Addiction and Mental Health Program (Healthy Brain and Mind Research Centre). For this role, I provided high-level support for the Program research activities and manage all aspects of the Program research projects, including the coordination of students and staff for MRI data collection.

I currently work as a Lecturer in the School of Behavioural and Health sciences where my main teaching areas include brain and behaviour, cognitive psychology, research design and statistics, and introductory psychology. Broadly, my research interests are in the areas of TBI, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, and addiction - where I supervise honours and masters research projects in these topics.

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Clemente, A., Attyé, A., Renard, F., Calamante, F., Burmester, A., Imms, P., ... & Caeyenberghs, K. (2023). Individualised profiling of white matter organisation in moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury patients. Brain Research, 1806, 148289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118417

Clemente, A.,Dominguez D., J. F., Imms, P., Burmester, A., Dhollander, T., Wilson, P. H., Poudel, G., & Caeyenberghs, K. (2021). Individual differences in attentional lapses are associated with fibre specific white matter microstructure in healthy adults. Psychophysiology, 00:e13871. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13871

Clemente, A.*,Caeyenberghs, K.*, Imms, P., Egan, G., Hocking, D. R., Leemans, A., ... Wilson, P. H. (2018). Evidence for training-dependent structural neuroplasticity in brain-injured patients: A critical review. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 32(2), 99-114. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968317753076 (* = Shared First Author)

Imms, P., Clemente, A., Deutscher, E., Radwan, A. M., Akhlaghi, H., Beech, P., ... & Caeyenberghs, K. (2023). Exploring personalized structural connectomics for moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Network Neuroscience, 7(1), 160-183. https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00277

Dhollander, T., Clemente, A., Singh, M., Boonstra, F., Civier, O., Duque, J. D., ... & Caeyenberghs, K. (2021). Fixel-based analysis of diffusion MRI: methods, applications, challenges and opportunities. Neuroimage, 241, 118417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118417

Imms, P., Clemente, A.,Cook, M., D'Souza, W., Wilson, P. H., Jones, D. K., & Caeyenberghs, K. (2019). The structural connectome in traumatic brain injury: A meta-analysis of graph metrics. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 99, 128-137 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.01.002

Caeyenberghs, K., Verhelst, H., Clemente, A.,& Wilson, P. H. (2017). Mapping the functional connectome in traumatic brain injury: What can graph metrics tell us?. Neuroimage, 160, 113-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.12.003

Robinson, E. A., Gleeson, J., Arun, A. H., Clemente, A., Gaillard, A., Rossetti, M. G., ... & Lorenzetti, V. (2023). Measuring white matter microstructure in 1,457 cannabis users and 1,441 controls: A systematic review of diffusion-weighted MRI studies. Frontiers in Neuroimaging, 2, 1129587. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnimg.2023.1129587

Imms, P., Burmester, A., Seguin, C., Clemente, A.,Dhollander, T., Wilson, P. H., ... & Caeyenberghs, K. (2021). Navigating the link between processing speed and network communication in the human brain. Brain Structure and Function, 226(4), 1281-1302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-021-02241-8

Lorenzetti, V., Gaillard, A., McTavish, E., Grace, S., Rossetti, M. G., Batalla, A., … Clemente, A., ... & Roberts, C. A. (2024). Cannabis dependence is associated with reduced hippocampal subregion volumes independently of sex: Findings from an enigma addiction working group multi-country Study. Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. https://doi.org/10.1089/can.2023.0204

Projects

2016-2021. Fibre-specific white matter in chronic traumatic brain injury patients: Towards single-subject profiles. Clemente, A., Poudel, G., Wilson, P. H., & Caeyenberghs, K. https://doi.org/10.26199/acu.8w571

Accolades and Awards

Australian Catholic University, Peter W Sheehan Psychology Scholarship, 2013

Australian Psychological Society prize recipient - Australian Catholic University, 2014.

Research Training Program Scholarship, 2016-2020

ACU Disability Research Network, Best Protocol Presentation (Highly Commended Award): For oral presentation titled "Neuroplasticity in Brain-Injured Patients: Towards Multimodal Rehabilitation Training Programs". ACU Disability Research Network Student Symposium, 2016

National Centre for Longitudinal Data (NCLD), NLCD Conference Scholarship, 2016

Australian Catholic University, ACU Postgraduate Association - Student Travel and Training Grant, 2018

Australian Catholic University, Postgraduate Research Student Support Scheme, 2019.

Appointments and Affiliations

Lecturer (Psychology), School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, March 2024 - current.

Senior Research Officer, Neuroscience of Addiction and Mental Health Program - Healthy Brain and Mind Research Centre, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, March 2021 - March 2024.

Sessional Academic (Psychology), School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, February 2017 - February 2024.

International journal review panels

Neuroimage: Clinical (Peer-Reviewer)

Human Brain Mapping (Peer-Reviewer)

Frontiers in Neuroscience (Peer-Reviewer)

Sleep and Biological Rhythms (Peer-Reviewer)

Public engagement activities

Special guest on Einstein A Go-Go, Triple R FM Melbourne, May 2021. Discussing research protocol for cannabis-use disorder and brain function research. https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/podcasts/einstein-a-go-go/episodes/5064-glacier-shrinkage-brain-function-and-radioactive-disasters