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Dr

Bao Nguyen

Lecturer
Neuroimaging
Visual perception
brain
visual function
eye
migraine
glaucoma
healthy ageing
visual development
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Dr

Bao Nguyen

 
Division
Medicine, Dentistry And Health Sciences
 
Primary Interest
Neuroscience
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Dr

Bao Nguyen

 

Dr Bao Nguyen is a clinician (optometrist) and researcher in human visual neuroscience. She is primarily focused on using vision to understand changes in the healthy brain across a lifetime, from childhood development through to older adulthood.

Bao is also interested in measuring visual function (using non-invasive electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods) and visual perception (using psychophysical methods) in ocular disease (e.g. glaucoma, high myopia), neurological conditions (e.g. migraine), and systemic conditions that can have ocular manifestations (e.g. human immunodeficiency virus infection) to better understand the underlying pathophysiology and visual experience of these patients. Bao is a lecturer in the Doctor of Optometry program and supervises graduate researchers in the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences at The University of Melbourne.

Projects

Displaying the 2 most recent projects by Bao Nguyen.

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Visual Ageing In Hiv: New Perspectives On An ‘Old’ Problem

2020 - 2020
Active
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Improving Headache Screening In Optometric Practice

2018 - 2019
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

1

Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 16 most recent scholarly works by Bao Nguyen.

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Geometry of the Retinal Nerve Fibers From Emmetropia Through to High Myopia at Both the Temporal Raphe and Optic Nerve

Phillip Bedggood, Soumya Mukherjee, Bao N Nguyen, Andrew Turpin, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2019  |  Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science

Purpose: The geometry of retinal nerve fibers may be altered with myopia, a known risk factor for glaucoma. Recent developments in..

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Quantified Motion Illusion Strength Does Not Correlate With Daily Visual Discomfort in People With Migraine

Chongyue He, Bao N Nguyen, Yu Man Chan, Allison M McKendrick

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  PERCEPTION

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Normative retrobulbar measurements of the optic nerve using ultra high field magnetic resonance imaging

Bao N Nguyen, Jon O Cleary, Rebecca Glarin, Scott C Kolbe, Bradford A Moffat, Roger J Ordidge, Bang V Bui, Allison M McKendrick

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE

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An Electrophysiological Comparison of Contrast Response Functions in Younger and Older Adults, and Those With Glaucoma

Jia Jia Lek, Bao N Nguyen, Allison M McKendrick, Algis J Vingrys

Journal article  |  2019  |  Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science

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Spatial vision in older adults: perceptual changes and neural bases

Allison M McKendrick, Yu Man Chan, Bao N Nguyen

Journal article  |  2018  |  Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

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Acute caffeine ingestion affects surround suppression of perceived contrast

Bao N Nguyen, Sui-Ann Hew, John Ly, Hee-Young Shin, Jessica C Wong, Emily Yeung, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Psychopharmacology

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Mismatched summation mechanisms in older adults for the perception of small moving stimuli

Thomas J McDougall, Bao N Nguyen, Allison M McKendrick, David R Badcock

Journal article  |  2018  |  Vision Research

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Occipital GABA levels in older adults and their relationship to visual perceptual suppression

Kabilan Pitchaimuthu, Qi-zhu Wu, Olivia Carter, Bao N Nguyen, Sinyeob Ahn, Gary F Egan, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2017  |  Scientific Reports

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Orientation of the Temporal Nerve Fiber Raphe in Healthy and in Glaucomatous Eyes

Phillip Bedggood, Bao Nguyen, Graham Lakkis, Andrew Turpin, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2017  |  Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science

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Aging alters intraocular but not interocular foveal center surround contrast suppression

Kabilan Pitchaimuthu, Bao N Nguyen, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Vision

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Visual Contextual Effects of Orientation, Contrast, Flicker, and Luminance: All Are Affected by Normal Aging

Bao N Nguyen, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2016  |  Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

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Clinical impact of migraine for the management of glaucoma patients

Bao N Nguyen, Jia Jia Lek, Algis J Vingrys, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2016  |  Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

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Foveal and parafoveal contrast suppression are different: Mechanisms revealed by the study of healthy aging

Bao N Nguyen, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2016  |  Journal of Vision

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Abnormal inhibition-excitation imbalance in migraine

Bao N Nguyen, Allison M McKendrick, Algis J Vingrys

Journal article  |  2016  |  Cephalalgia

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The effect of duration post-migraine on visual electrophysiology and visual field performance in people with migraine

Bao N Nguyen, Algis J Vingrys, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2014  |  Cephalalgia

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Simultaneous retinal and cortical visually evoked electrophysiological responses in between migraine attacks

Bao N Nguyen, Allison M McKendrick, Algis J Vingrys

Journal article  |  2012  |  Cephalalgia

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Ophthalmology and Optometry
Neurosciences
Clinical Health (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Expanding Knowledge
Psychology

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2019

Carers Travel Grant, Australasian Neuroscience Society
2019

Travel Grant, Australian College of Optometry
2017

BioMedVic Early Career Clinician Researcher Award
2016

Travel Grant, Australian College of Optometry
2012

Travel Grant, International Society for the Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision
2011

Health Sector Leadership Program
2011

Travel Grant, Optometry Australia
2011

Travel Grant, Australian College of Optometry
2010

Travel Grant, Scientific and Educators Meeting in Optometry
2009

Elizabeth and Vernon Puzey Postgraduate Scholarship, University of Melbourne
2008

Faculty of Science Dean's Honours List, University of Melbourne
2008

DAAD German Academic Exchange
2008

Melbourne Abroad Scholarship, University of Melbourne
2007

Faculty of Science Dean's Honours List, University of Melbourne
2006

Margaret Sefton Delmer Prize for 2nd Year German, University of Melbourne
2004

Faculty of Science Dean's Prize for Entry into Bachelor of Optometry, University of Melbourne
2004

Faculty of Science Dean's Honours List, University of Melbourne
2004

Commonwealth Learning Scholarship, University of Melbourne
2014

Fellow of the Australian College of Optometry

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Lecturer

Optometry And Vision Sciences

Member

Australasian Neuroscience Society

Member

Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Member

Society for Neuroscience

Member

Australian Association of Gerontology

Member

International Society for the Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision

Member

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

Member

Optometry Australia

Fellow

Australian College of Optometry

Education

Doctorate of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Optometry

University of Melbourne

Diploma of Modern Languages

University of Melbourne

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