Cynthia Honan

A clinical neuropsychologist and lecturer with the University of Tasmania’s School of Medicine, Dr Honan’s research focuses on the neuropsychology of various clinical disorders including multiple sclerosis, acquired brain injuries and alcohol intoxication.

Before moving to Tasmania in 2015 she was a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at the University of New South Wales, where she examined social cognition disorders in traumatic brain injuries.

For as long as she can remember, Dr Honan has been fascinated by research, developing an interest in neuropsychology as an undergraduate student at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, near where she grew up. Here, she became fascinated by how the brain functions and how changes in the brain results in behaviour changes.

Her main areas of research include examining biological markers of cognition and fatigue in people with MS and how these difficulties impact everyday functioning, and social cognition in acquired brain injury.

In 2021 Dr Honan obtained funding from the Clifford Craig Foundation for a research project investigating the relationship between the gut-brain axis and cognitive functioning in people with multiple sclerosis.

She is also working on a project examining socially disinhibited behaviours in individuals with moderate-to-severe acquired brain injury – such as traumatic brain injuries and stroke.