Refereed Publications:

 

McCrea, S.M. (2009). A cognitive-neuropsychological examination of the Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System subtests: A report of three stroke cases studied longitudinally during recovery. International Journal of Neuroscience. 119: 553-599.  

 

McCrea, S.M. (2007). Measurement of recovery after traumatic brain injury: A cognitive neuropsychological comparison of the WAIS-R with the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) in a single case of atypical language lateralization. Applied Neuropsychology. 14: 296-304.

McCrea, S.M. (2007). A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of the body schema using full human line-drawing figures in an online verbal naming and localization task of single body part words. Behavioral Brain Research. 180: 235-240.

 

McCrea, S. M. (2006). A nonparametric study of the performance of cortical lesion patients on the Cognitive Assessment System. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 21: 321-325.

McCrea, S. and Scott, M. (2002). A case study of strategic infarct dementia investigated with the Cognitive Assessment System. Brain and Cognition. 49: 207-210.

McCrea, S., Mueller, J.H. and Parrila, R.K. (1999). Quantitative analysis of schooling effects on executive function development in young children. Child Neuropsychology. 5: 242-250.

McCrea, S., Enman, M. and Pettifor, J. (1997). The Canadian Code of Ethics and the prescription privilege debate. Canadian Psychology. 38: 49-51.

 

Book Critiques:

McCrea, S.M. (2010). Neuropsychology and cerebral lateralization: A long history and renewed vigor. A book review of K. Hugdahl and R. Westerhausen (Eds.). "The two halves of the brain: Information processing in the cerebral hemispheres.” PsycCritiques. December 15, Vol. 55, Release 50, Article 8.

McCrea, S.M. (2010). An emerging scientific consensus on a multi-disciplinary approach towards understanding consciousness? A book review of T. Bayne, A. Cleeremans and P. Wilken (Eds.). "The Oxford companion to consciousness." PsycCritiques. March 10, Vol. 55,  Release 10, Article 4.

McCrea, S.M. (2008). Insights on neuroimaging: Past, present and future. A book review of R.A Hurley and K.H. Taber (Eds.). “Windows to the brain: Insights from neuroimaging.” PsycCritiques. October 15, Vol. 53, Release 42, Article 5.

McCrea, S.M. (2008). Mechanisms of non-locality and its implications to physics and the study of consciousness. A book review of B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. "Hidden dimensions: The unification of physics and consciousness." PsycCritiques. May 28, Vol. 53, Release 22, Article 2.

McCrea, S.M. (2006). A review of ‘Space, Objects, Minds, and Brains’. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology. 19: 237-238.

 

Conference Presentations:

Westbury, C.F, McCrea, S.M and Binder, J.R. (2006). Is there privileged access to semantics for mirror neuron related verbs? Brain and Cognition. 60: p 322. Presented as a poster at the XVI Annual Meeting of Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET) from June 23-25 in Montréal, Canada.

 

Snook, L., Paulson, L.A., Roy, D., Bhagat, Y.A., McCrea, S.M., Phillips, L and Beaulieu, C. (2004). Diffusion tensor imaging of neurodevelopment in adolescents and young adults. Presented as a poster at the XII Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine from May 15-21 in Kyoto, Japan.

Beaulieu, C., Plewes, C., Paulson, L.A., Roy, D., Snook, L., McCrea, S. and Phillips, L. (2004). Regional correlation of fractional anisotropy in brain with reading ability in children. Presented as a poster at the XII Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine from May 15-21 in Kyoto, Japan.

 

Open-Access Publications:

 

McCrea, S. (2015) Free-drawing from memory in constructional apraxia: A case series. American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 3: 125-141. 

McCrea, S.M. and Chomiak, D.L. (2015) Free-drawing from memory in constructional apraxia: Effects of unilateral cortical lesions on performance. Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy Research. 2: 2-17.

McCrea, S.M. (2014). A neuropsychological model of free-drawing from memory in constructional apraxia: A theoretical review. American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 2(5): 60-75.

 

Mulvogue, M.K., Robinson, T.P. Ijaz, S.M. and McCrea, S.M. (2012). Structural neuroimaging and neuropsychological correlates of a single case of focal central pontine myelinolysis: Intact memory function with decreased intellectual and motor functions. World Journal of Neuroscience. 2: 192-199.

Gagnon, M., Robinson, T.P., Ijaz, S.M. and McCrea, S.M. (2012). Persistent delayed auditory memory and executive function deficits 5 years after West Nile Virus Encephalitis: A neuropsychological and neuroimaging single case study.World Journal of Neuroscience. 2: 210-216.

McCrea, S.M. and Robinson, T.P. (2011). Visual puzzles, figure weights and cancellation: Some preliminary hypotheses on the functional and neural substrates of these three new WAIS-IV subtests. ISRN Neurology. Article ID 123173, 19 pages.

McCrea, S.M. (2010). Intuition, insight and the right hemisphere: Emergence of higher sociocognitive functions.

Psychology Research and Behavior Management. 3: 1-39.

 

McCrea, S.M. (2009). A review and empirical study of the composite scales of the Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System. Psychology Research and Behavior Management. 2: 59- 79.

McCrea, S.M. (2008). Bipolar disorder and neurophysiologic mechanisms. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 4: 1129-1153.