Powell, Jane, Goldsmiths, University of London

Professor Jane Powell

Position held:
Professor of Psychology

Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7199

Fax:
+44 (0)20 7919 7873

Email:
j.powell (@gold.ac.uk)

Address:
Room 309 Whitehead Building,
Psychology Department,
Goldsmiths, University of London,
New Cross, SE14 6NW

BA(Oxon) MPhil PhD ClinPsychol

Neurorehabilitation, neuropsychology, motivation, addiction

Professor Powell is a chartered clinical psychologist with dual specialisms in addictions and neuropsychological rehabilitation. Between 1989 and 2002 she held clinical appointments in the Drug Dependence Unit at the Bethlem Hospital and the Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit at Homerton Hospital, where she set up and ran a community-based brain injury rehabilitation team. Her current academic appointment enables her to carry out research into theoretical and clinical issues within both her specialist areas, and she continues to serve as clinical director of the community-based brain injury rehabilitation team at Homerton Hospital. She also provides a consultancy service to the Blackheath Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre, and supervises three clinical neuropsychologists based at Homerton and Blackheath. In addition she frequently acts as an expert witness in medicolegal cases relating to the effects of brain injury.

Research interests

Research relating to addiction:

Professor Powell and her team are investigating the involvement of brain reward circuitry in recreational use of and addiction to various substances, particularly nicotine and alcohol, using a combination of cognitive, behavioural, and genetic methodologies. She was awarded a grant from the US National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) to carry out a prospective study of the effects of nicotine and abstinence/cessation in smokers; several publications have emanated from this study, showing that acute abstinence is associated with deficits of incentive motivation and response inhibition, and that the severity of these deficits predicts short-term success in maintaining abstinence. She is currently collaborating with an alcohol treatment service to investigate whether similar deficits of incentive motivation and response inhibition characterise alcoholics, and is supervising two ESRC-funded doctoral students to carry out research in this area.

Research relating to brain injury:

Much of Professor Powell's research is focused on outcomes and rehabilitation after brain injury. For example, she was PI on an MRC-funded randomised controlled trial of the Outreach team; this remains the only controlled evaluation of such a service, and its positive findings provided the first clear evidence for the efficacy of such provision. With medical colleagues, she also developed the BICRO-39 scales to assess the community functioning of brain-injured patients. This measure has been adopted for clinical use by numerous community-based teams in the UK and other countries. She is a member of an international group which is now in the final stages of validating a new instrument for assessing quality of life after traumatic brain injury, and has a number of ongoing collaborations with neurological colleagues to investigate outcomes after brain injury from cognitive, neuroimaging, and psychosocial perspectives, and is supervising two PhD on research in this field.

Selected publications

Number of items: 24.

Kinnunen, K. M., Greenwood, Richard, Powell, Jane H., Leech, R., Hawkins, R. C., Bonnelle, V., Patel, M. C., Counsell, S. J. and Sharp, D. J.. 2011. White matter damage and cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury. Brain, 134(2), pp. 449-463. ISSN 0006-8950 [Article]

Powell, Jane H., Dawkins, Lynne, Pickering, Alan, West, Robert and Powell, John F.. 2010. Relapse to smoking during unaided cessation: Clinical, cognitive, and motivational predictors. Psychopharmacology, pp. 1-13. ISSN 0033-3158 [Article]

von Steinbüchel, Nicole, Wilson, Lindsay, Hawthorne, Graeme, Gibbons, Henning, Höfer, Stefan, Schmidt, Silke, Bullinger, Monika, Maas, Andrew, Neugebauer, Edmund, Powell, Jane H., von Wild, Klaus, Zitnay, George, Bakx, Wilbert, Christensen, Anne-Lise, Koskinen, Sanna, Sarajuuri, Jaana, Formisano, Rita, Sasse, Nadine and Truelle, Jean-Luc. 2010. Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI): Scale Development and Metric Properties. Journal of Neurotrauma, 27(7), pp. 1167-1185. ISSN 0897-7151 [Article]

Anderson, Rachel J., Goddard, Lorna and Powell, Jane H.. 2010. Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory as a moderator of the relationship between daily hassles and depression. Cognition & Emotion, 24(4), pp. 702-709. ISSN 0269-9931 [Article]

Powell, Jane H., Dawkins, Lynne, West, Robert, Powell, John and Pickering, Alan. 2010. Relapse to smoking during unaided cessation: clinical, cognitive and motivational predictors. Psychopharmacology, 212(4), pp. 537-549. ISSN 0033-3158 [Article]

Dawkins, Lynne, Powell, Jane H., Pickering, Alan, Powell, John F. and West, Robert. 2009. Patterns of change in withdrawal symptoms, desire to smoke, reward motivation and response inhibition across 3 months of smoking abstinence. Addiction, 104(5), pp. 850-858. ISSN 09652140 [Article]

Anderson, Rachel J., Goddard, Lorna and Powell, Jane H.. 2009. Social problem-solving processes and mood in college students: an examination of self-report and performance-based approaches. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 33(2), p. 175. ISSN 0147-5916 [Article]

Powell, Jane H., Letson, Susan, Davidoff, Jules B., Valentine, Tim R. and Greenwood, Richard. 2008. Enhancement of face recognition learning in patients with brain injury using three cognitive training procedures. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 18(2), pp. 182-203. ISSN 0960-2011 [Article]

Powell, Jane H., Dawkins, Lynne, Pickering, Alan and West, Robert. 2007. A double-blind placebo-controlled experimental study of nicotine: II-Effects on response inhibition and executive functioning. Psychopharmacology, 190(4), pp. 457-468. ISSN 00333158 [Article]

Dawkins, Lynne, Acaster, Sarah and Powell, Jane H.. 2007. The effects of smoking and abstinence on experience of happiness and sadness in response to positively valenced, negatively valenced, and neutral film clips. Addictive Behaviors, 32(2), pp. 425-431. ISSN 03064603 [Article]

Pickering, Alan, Dawkins, Lynne, Powell, Jane H. and West, Robert. 2006. A double-blind placebo controlled experimental study of nicotine: I - effects on incentive motivation. Psychopharmacology, 189(3), pp. 355-367. ISSN 00333158 [Article]

Valentine, Tim R., Powell, Jane H., Davidoff, Jules B., Letson, Susan and Greenwood, Richard. 2006. Prevalence and correlates of face recognition impairments after acquired brain injury. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 16(3), pp. 272-297. ISSN 0960-2011 [Article]

Winter, Virginia, Powell, Jane H. and Greenwood, Richard. 2005. The problem of quality of life after traumatic brain injury: Conceptual and measurement issues. Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 3(1-2), pp. 36-47. ISSN 1601-5215 [Article]

Powell, Jane H., Greenwood, R., Heslin, J. and Kitchen, N.. 2004. Psychosocial outcomes at 18 months after good neurological recovery from aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 75(8), pp. 1119-1124. ISSN 00223050 [Article]

Powell, Jane H., Pickering, Alan, Dawkins, Lynne, West, Robert and Powell, John F.. 2004. Cognitive and psychological correlates of smoking abstinence, and predictors of successful cessation. Addictive Behaviors, 29(7), pp. 1407-1426. ISSN 03064603 [Article]

Richardson, Matt, Powell, Jane H. and Curran, H. Valerie. 2003. Effects of cigarette smoking on reward responsivity and cognitive function in brain injured individuals. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 13(3), pp. 365-378. ISSN 0960-2011 [Article]

Gilmore, R., Aram, J., Powell, Jane H. and Greenwood, Richard. 2003. Treatment of oro-facial hypersensitivity following brain injury. Brain Injury, 17(4), pp. 347-354. ISSN 0269-9052 [Article]

Powell, Jane H., Davis, Robert and Dawkins, Lynne. 2002. Smoking, reward responsiveness, and response inhibition: tests of an incentive motivational model. Biological Psychiatry, 51(2), pp. 151-163. ISSN 00063223 [Article]

Powell, Jane H., Tait, Samantha and Lessiter, Jane. 2002. Cigarette smoking and attention to signals of reward and threat in the Stroop paradigm. Addiction, 97(9), pp. 1163-1170. ISSN 09652140 [Article]

Powell, Jane H., Greenwood, R. and Heslin, J.. 2002. Community based rehabilitation after severe traumatic brain injury: a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 72(2), pp. 193-202. ISSN 00223050 [Article]

Powell, Jane H., Kitchen, N., Heslin, J. and Greenwood, Richard. 2002. Psychosocial outcomes at three and nine months after good neurological recovery from aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: predictors and prognosis. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 72(6), pp. 772-781. ISSN 00223050 [Article]

Jackson, Diana, Turner-Stokes, Lynne, Culpan, Jane, Bateman, Andrew, Scott, Oona, Powell, Jane H. and Greenwood, Richard. 2001. Can brain-injured patients participate in an aerobic exercise programme during early inpatient rehabilitation? Clinical Rehabilitation, 15(5), pp. 535-544. ISSN 02692155 [Article]

Bhattachary, Sarjane and Powell, Jane. 2001. Recreational use of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) or ‘ecstasy’: evidence for cognitive impairment. Psychological Medicine, 31(4), pp. 647-658. ISSN 0033-2917 [Article]

Bateman, Andrew, Culpan, Jane, Pickering, Alan, Powell, Jane H., Scott, Oona and Greenwood, Richard. 2001. The effect of aerobic training on rehabilitation outcomes after recent severe brain injury: A randomized controlled evaluation. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 82(2), pp. 174-182. ISSN 00039993 [Article]

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