Dr Mitchell Goldsworthy

Enterprise Fellow UniSA Justice & Society

Magill Campus (C1-17)
tel +61 8 830 24001

email Mitchell.Goldsworthy@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

About me

TMS
EEG
Cognitive neuroscience
Cognitive ageing
Dementia

My research employs various non-invasive brain stimulation (TMS, tES) and recording (EEG) techniques to characterise the neurophysiological determinants of cognitive function in healthy ageing and dementia. The overarching aim of this research is to provide new mechanistic insights into the roles of brain connectivity and plasticity in supporting late life cognitive health, with the potential to inform novel strategies for dementia prevention and therapy.

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Research

Research focus

Medical and Health Sciences
Neurosciences
Clinical Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2025	Boda, MR, Rees, AE, Goldsworthy, MR, Evangelou, N, Sidhu, SK & Smith, AE 2025, 'Scoping review: The effects of diet, physical activity and sleep on motor and physical fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis', Neuroscience, vol. 568, pp. 166-194. Open access
2024	Boda, MR, Otieno, LA, Smith, AE, Goldsworthy, MR & Sidhu, SK 2024, 'Metaplastic neuromodulation via transcranial direct current stimulation has no effect on corticospinal excitability and neuromuscular fatigue', Experimental Brain Research, vol. 242, no. 8, pp. 1999-2012. Open access 1
2024	Mellow, ML, Dumuid, D, Olds, T, Stanford, T, Dorrian, J, Wade, AT, Fripp, J, Xia, Y, Goldsworthy, MR, Karayanidis, F, Breakspear, MJ & Smith, AE 2024, 'Cross-sectional associations between 24-hour time-use composition, grey matter volume and cognitive function in healthy older adults', International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 1-17. Open access 5 6 9
2023	Merkin, A, Sghirripa, S, Graetz, L, Smith, AE, Hordacre, B, Harris, R, Pitcher, J, Semmler, J & Goldsworthy, M 2023, 'Do age-related differences in aperiodic neural activity explain differences in resting EEG alpha?', Neurobiology of Aging, vol. 121, pp. 78-87. 41 41 12
2023	Van Dam, JM, Graetz, L, Pitcher, JB & Goldsworthy, MR 2023, 'The effects of age and biological sex on the association between I-wave recruitment and the response to cTBS: an exploratory study', Brain Research, vol. 1810, article no. 148359, pp. 1-8. 1 1 2
2023	Wilson, MT, Goldsworthy, MR, Vallence, A-M, Fornito, A & Rogasch, NC 2023, 'Finding synaptic couplings from a biophysical model of motor evoked potentials after theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation', Brain Research, vol. 1801, article no. 148205. 1 1 1
2023	Xian, C, Barbi, C, Goldsworthy, MR, Venturelli, M & Sidhu, SK 2023, 'The interaction between metaplastic neuromodulation and fatigue in multiple sclerosis', Journal of the Neurological Sciences, vol. 444, article no. 120521. Open access 1 1
2022	Mellow, ML, Dumuid, D, Wade, AT, Stanford, T, Olds, TS, Karayanidis, F, Hunter, M, Keage, HAD, Dorrian, J, Goldsworthy, MR & Smith, AE 2022, 'Twenty-four-hour time-use composition and cognitive function in older adults: cross-sectional findings of the ACTIVate study', Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 16, article no. 1051793, pp. 1-14. Open access 5 7 6
2022	Sghirrip, S, Graetz, L, Rogasch, NC, Semmler, JG & Goldsworthy, MR 2022, 'Does predictive cueing of presentation time modulate alpha power and facilitate visual working memory performance in younger and older adults?', Brain and Cognition, vol. 159, article no. 105861. 3
2022	Smith, AE, Wade, AT, Olds, T, Dumuid, D, Goldsworthy, MR, Ridding, MC, Dorrian, J, Mellow, ML, Murphy, KJ, Keage, H, Smith, RT & Karayanidis, F and 10 other authors 2022, 'Characterising activity and diet compositions for dementia prevention: protocol for the ACTIVate prospective longitudinal cohort study', BMJ Open, vol. 12, no. 1, article no. e047888, pp. 1-12. Open access 7 7 11
2021	Hordacre, B, Goldsworthy, MR, Graetz, L & Ridding, MC 2021, 'Motor network connectivity predicts neuroplastic response following theta burst stimulation in healthy adults', Brain Structure and Function, vol. 226, no. 6, pp. 1893-1907. 3 3 3
2021	Sghirripa, S, Graetz, L, Merkin, A, Rogasch, NC, Ridding, MC, Semmler, JG & Goldsworthy, MR 2021, 'The role of alpha power in the suppression of anticipated distractors during verbal working memory', Brain Topography: Journal of Functional Neurophysiology, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 102-109. Open access 8 7 4
2021	Sghirripa, S, Graetz, L, Merkin, A, Rogasch, NC, Semmler, JG & Goldsworthy, MR 2021, 'Load-dependent modulation of alpha oscillations during working memory encoding and retention in young and older adults', Psychophysiology, vol. 58, no. 2, article no. e13719. 13 12 12
2021	Smith, AE, Dumuid, D, Goldsworthy, MR, Graetz, L, Hodyl, N, Thornton, NL & Ridding, MC 2021, 'Daily activities are associated with non-invasive measures of neuroplasticity in older adults', Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 132, no. 4, pp. 984-992. Open access 12 10 41
2021	Vallence, A-M, Dansie, K, Goldsworthy, MR, McAllister, SM, Yang, R, Rothwell, JC & Ridding, MC 2021, 'Examining motor evoked potential amplitude and short-interval intracortical inhibition on the up-going and down-going phases of a transcranial alternating current stimulation (tacs) imposed alpha oscillation', European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 2755-2762. Open access 2 2 8
2021	Van Dam, JM, Goldsworthy, MR, Hague, WM, Coat, S & Pitcher, JB 2021, 'Cortical plasticity and interneuron recruitment in adolescents born to women with gestational diabetes mellitus', Brain Sciences, vol. 11, no. 3, article no. 388. Open access 3 3
2020	Goldsworthy, MR, Rogasch, NC, Ballinger, S, Graetz, L, Van Dam, JM, Harris, R, Yu, S, Pitcher, JB, Baune, BT & Ridding, MC 2020, 'Age-related decline of neuroplasticity to intermittent theta burst stimulation of the lateral prefrontal cortex and its relationship with late-life memory performance', Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 131, no. 9, pp. 2181-2191. 14 13 7
2020	Hordacre, B, Goldsworthy, MR, Welsby, E, Graetz, L, Ballinger, S & Hillier, S 2020, 'Resting state functional connectivity is associated with motor pathway integrity and upper-limb behavior in chronic stroke', Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 547-557. 24 23 8
2019	Hordacre, B, Ghosh, R, Goldsworthy, MR & Ridding, MC 2019, 'Transcranial magnetic stimulation-EEG biomarkers of poststroke upper-limb motor function', Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, vol. 28, no. 12, article no. 104452, pp. 1-10. Open access 17 15 2
2019	Moezzi, B, Pratti, LM, Hordacre, B, Graetz, L, Berryman, C, Lavrencic, LM, Ridding, MC, Keage, HA, McDonnell, MD & Goldsworthy, MR 2019, 'Characterization of young and old adult brains: an EEG functional connectivity analysis', Neuroscience, vol. 422, pp. 230-239. Open access 43 40
2018	Moezzi, B, Schaworonkow, N, Plogmacher, L, Goldsworthy, M, Hordacre, B, McDonnell, M, Iannella, N, Ridding, M & Triesch, J 2018, 'Simulation of electromyographic recordings following transcranial magnetic stimulation', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 120, no. 5, pp. 2532-2541. Open access 11 10 10
2018	Smith, AE, Goldsworthy, MR, Wood, FM, Olds, TS, Garside, T & Ridding, MC 2018, 'High-intensity aerobic exercise blocks the facilitation of iTBS-induced plasticity in the human motor cortex', Neuroscience, vol. 373, pp. 1-6. 13 12 3
2018	Tse, NY, Goldsworthy, MR, Ridding, MC, Coxon, JP, Fitzgerald, PB, Fornito, A & Rogasch, NC 2018, 'The effect of stimulation interval on plasticity following repeated blocks of intermittent theta burst stimulation', Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 1, article no. 8526. Open access 72 67 2
2018	Van Dam, JM, Garrett, AJ, Schneider, LA, Buisman-Pijlman, FT, Short, MA, Hodyl, NA, Edwards, HK, Goldsworthy, MR & Pitcher, JB 2018, 'Variability of the cortisol awakening response and morning salivary oxytocin in late adolescence', Journal of Neuroendocrinology, vol. 30, no. 11, article no. e12645, pp. 1-9. 4 4 3
2018	Van Dam, JM, Garrett, AJ, Schneider, LA, Hodyl, NA, Goldsworthy, MR, Coat, S, Rowan, JA, Hague, WM & Pitcher, JB 2018, 'Reduced cortical excitability, neuroplasticity, and salivary cortisol in 11-13-year-old children born to women with gestational diabetes mellitus', EBioMedicine, vol. 31, pp. 143-149. Open access 30 27 1
2017	Hordacre, B, Goldsworthy, MR, Vallence, A-M, Darvishi, S, Moezzi, B, Hamada, M, Rothwell, JC & Ridding, MC 2017, 'Variability in neural excitability and plasticity induction in the human cortex: a brain stimulation study', Brain Stimulation, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 588-595. Open access 96 86 1
2017	Hordacre, B, Moezzi, B, Goldsworthy, MR, Rogasch, NC, Graetz, LJ & Ridding, MC 2017, 'Resting state functional connectivity measures correlate with the response to anodal transcranial direct current stimulation', European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 837-845. 30 29 7
2017	Opie, GM, Rogasch, NC, Goldsworthy, MR, Ridding, MC & Semmler, JG 2017, 'Investigating TMS-EEG indices of long-interval intracortical inhibition at different interstimulus intervals', Brain Stimulation, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 65-74. 40 31 1
2016	Goldsworthy, M, Hordacre, B & Ridding, M 2016, 'Minimum number of trials required for within- and between-session reliability of TMS measures of corticospinal excitability', Neuroscience, vol. 320, pp. 205-209. 138 137
2016	Goldsworthy, MR, Vallence, A-M, Hodyl, NA, Semmler, JG, Pitcher, JB & Ridding, MC 2016, 'Probing changes in corticospinal excitability following theta burst stimulation of the human primary motor cortex', Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 127, no. 1, pp. 740-747. 31 31 1
2016	Goldsworthy, MR, Vallence, A-M, Yang, R, Pitcher, JB & Ridding, MC 2016, 'Combined transcranial alternating current stimulation and continuous theta burst stimulation: a novel approach for neuroplasticity induction', European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 572-579. 24 20 5
2016	Schneider, LA, Goldsworthy, M, Cole, J, Ridding, M & Pitcher, J 2016, 'The influence of short-interval intracortical facilitation when assessing developmental changes in short-interval intracortical inhibition', Neuroscience, vol. 312, pp. 19-25. 7 7 1

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Auckland City Hospital	NEW ZEALAND
CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research organisation)	AUSTRALIA
Deakin University	AUSTRALIA
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies	GERMANY
Harman International	CHINA
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Murdoch University	AUSTRALIA
Neuroscience Research Australia	AUSTRALIA
Private Individual	UNITED KINGDOM
South Australian Health and Medical and Research Institute (SAHMRI)	AUSTRALIA
UCL Institute of Neurology	UNITED KINGDOM
University College London	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Florida	UNITED STATES
University of Leeds	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of Newcastle	AUSTRALIA
University of Nottingham	UNITED KINGDOM
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Tokyo	JAPAN
University of Verona	ITALY
University of Waikato	NEW ZEALAND
University of Western Australia	AUSTRALIA

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