Sicong is a cognitive neuroscientist who completed his PhD in Sydney. Upon completion, he was awarded the prestigious NHMRC CJ Martin research fellowship, which provided the opportunity to relocated to the UK where he worked with global leaders in neuroimaging at the University of Oxford. He has now returned to Sydney and specialises in the application of cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques in clinical research at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney.
Sicong's research focuses on the development of novel biomarkers to detect neurodegenerative conditions in their earliest symptomatic and pre-symptomatic stage, and prognostic models of disease progression to predict disease trajectories and deliver personalised treatment to patients. His research has identified novel diagnostic features across the clinical spectrum of dementia and motor neuron disease and guided the current direction of international preventative research in young onset dementia.
Experience
2019–present
Clinical Research Fellow, University of Sydney
2017–2018
Clinical Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Education
2016
University of New South Wales, Doctor of Philosophy (Medicine)
2012
University of New South Wales, Masters of Science
2010
University of New South Wales, Bachelor of Science (Psychology)
Publications
2019
Cerebellar Tract Alterations in ALS and PLS, ALS & FTD
2018
Regional thalamic MRI as a marker of widespread cortical pathology and progressive frontotemporal involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
2017
Egocentric versus allocentric spatial memory in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
2015
Lost in spatial translation - A novel tool to objectively assess spatial disorientation in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia, Cortex
2015
Divergent longitudinal propagation of white matter degradation in logopenic and semantic variants of primary progressive aphasia, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
2014
Memory and orientation in the logopenic and nonfluent subtypes of primary progressive aphasia, Journal of Alzheimers Disease
2014
Medial temporal lobe contributions to intra-item associative recognition memory in the aging brain, Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience
2014
Accelerated forgetting of contextual details due to focal medio-dorsal thalamic lesion, Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience
2013
Dissociation of explicit and implicit long-term memory consolidation in semantic dementia: a case study, Neurocase
Professional Memberships
Organisation for Human Brain Mapping
Australian Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Society for Neuroscience
Honours
NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship (2017); ARC CCD Publication Award (2016); INS Publication Award (2015); NeuRA Publication Award (2015)