Heather McCann
Current Appointments
Manager, Sydney Brain BankKey Research Areas
Heather McCann has worked for over 20 years in brain banking and neuroscience research and has utilised valuable donor brain tissue to publish a number of neuropathology-focused primary research papers and reviews on a range of neurodegenerative diseases, including Lewy body disease, Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal degeneration, multiple system atrophy and myoclonus dystonia. As Manager of the Sydney Brain Bank, her primary roles are overseeing the processing and storage of donated brain and spinal cord tissue with an emphasis on maintaining the highest possible tissue quality and liaising with national and international researchers to provide tissue specimens for merit-based research projects.
Heather has a particular interest in the histopathological analysis of brain and spinal cord tissue, which is essential for the classification of cases and enables careful construction of disease group cohorts.
Publications
2023, 01 Mar
Riluzole is associated with decreasing neuritic plaque severity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac467
2022, 04 Jul
Prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the Sydney Brain Bank
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcac189
2021, 13 Jul
Aging-Related Tau Astrogliopathy in Aging and Neurodegeneration.
View full review on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8306417
2021
Globular glial tauopathy with a mutation in MAPT and unusual TDP-43 proteinopathy in a patient with behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia
View full journal-article on https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/43245394/
2020
A Practical Approach to Differentiate the Frontotemporal Tauopathy Subtypes
View full journal-article on https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/37051135/
2019
Coexisting Lewy body disease and clinical parkinsonism in frontotemporal lobar degeneration
View full journal-article on https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/19722028/
2019
Heritability in frontotemporal tauopathies
View full journal-article on https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/19013544/
2019
Von Economo Neurons in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia with Underlying Alzheimer's Disease
View full journal-article on https://publons.com/publon/28315718/
2016
Neuropathology of -synuclein propagation and braak hypothesis
View full journal-article on https://publons.com/publon/7145197/
2016
TDP-43 in the hypoglossal nucleus identifies amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
View full journal-article on https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/7071118/
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