Mary Lou Smith
Professor
office: 905-828-3960, Davis Building room 4023B
email: marylou.smith@utoronto.ca
Affiliations
http://www.sickkids.ca/psychology/
http://www.epilepsy.ca/en-CA/Epilepsy-Canada.html
Area of Research
My research examines the behavioural and neuropsychological consequences of a variety of disorders of the central nervous system in children. My colleagues and I are longitudinally following children with epilepsy treated with surgical excision or medication. We are examining the cognitive, academic, social, emotional, and behavioural effects of epilepsy and its impact on the family. We are also interested in the long-term effects of surgery on children and are beginning to study its outcomes in young adulthood. In another line of research focused on determining the nature, frequency, and correlates of psychological impairment arising from infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), we are monitoring the developmental, behavioural and cognitive status of children born with HIV or exposed to HIV in utero. I also have an interest in spatial memory, and have conducted studies on people with brain lesions and neurologically normal young and elderly adults.
Recent Publications
Salter, R., King, SM, Smith, ML, Bitnun, A, Brophy J, Fernandes-Penney,
A., Lefebvre A., Louch, D, MacDougall, G, Moore, W, Read, SE. Disclosing
HIV diagnosis to infected children: A health care team's approach.
Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies Journal, 2007, 2(1), 12-16.
Fernandes MA, Smith ML, Logan W, Crawley A, McAndrews MP. Determining
language lateralization in children with epilepsy: Comparison of fMRI and
dichotic listening. Brain and Language, 2006, 96, 106-114.
Smith ML, Elliott IM, Lach, LM. Memory outcome after pediatric epilepsy
surgery: Objective and subjective perspectives. Child Neuropsychology,
2006, 12, 151-160.
Benifla M, Otsubo H, Ochi A, Weiss S, Donner E, Shroff M, Chuang S,
Hawkins C, Drake J, Smith ML, Snead OC, Rutka JT, Neurosurgical
management of temporal lobe epilepsy in children: An analysis of outcomes
in 126 children. Neurosurgery, 2006, 59(6):1203-1214
Desrocher, M. Smith, ML Intrapersonal and extrapersonal space:
Performance of older adults on ecologically valid orientation tasks.
Experimental Aging Research, 2005, 31, 1-12.
Elliott IM, Lach, LM, Smith, ML. "I just want to be normal". A qualitative
study exploring how children and adolescents perceive the impact of
intractable epilepsy on their quality of life. Epilepsy and Behavior,
2005, 7, 664-678.
Kadis, DS, Stollstorff, M, Elliott, I, Lach, L, and Smith, ML. Cognitive
and psychological predictors of everyday memory in children with
intractable epilepsy. Epilepsy and Behavior, 2004, 5, 37-43.
Smith, ML, Elliott, IM, Lach, L. Cognitive, psychological and family
function after pediatric epilepsy surgery. Epilepsia, 2004, 45, 650-660.