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Memory & Perception Group People (those not found in CBU People pages)
Peter Nestor: Senior Research Associate, Department of Clinical Neurosciences
See Dr. Nestor's Cambridge Neuroscience profile.
Boyd Ghosh: MPhil/PhD Student (Brain entry Scholarship)
I have moved to Cambridge from Bristol to continue training to be a neurologist. My PhD (supervised by James Rowe and John Hodges) focuses on the effects of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). I am bringing together a number of research methods to try to understand the variation of symptoms from patient to patient, and to see whether one can use early non-invasive tests to predict the type of PSP that is evolving – for example with or without significant cognitive problems.
Robert Arnold: Research Assistant
I am a grant-funded research assistant focusing on neuropsychological testing of patients with mild cognitive impairment and appropriate control subjects in connection with projects investigating suspected and actual dementia of Alzheimer's type. I am also involved from time to time in carrying out similar testing on other subjects, especially those with other dementias. I also occasionally undertake the testing of control and other subjects in connection with other specific projects including the validation and calibration of new tests.
Kate Dawson: Research Nurse based at Addenbrooke's
I run clinical trials for patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. All patients participating in the trial are seen as outpatients. At each visit, patients will have various safety (blood tests and ECG's) and efficacy measures (MMSE, Adas(Cog) CIBIC, PDS and GDS) performed.
Christopher Kipps: Clinical Research Fellow
My interest is in the neural basis of social cognition, and I am funded by the Wellcome Trust to study this in frontotemporal dementia using FDG-PET, MRI and neuropsychological testing. Particular areas of interest involve aspects of cognition such as the Theory of Mind, decision-making and emotional processing. I am also interested in longitudinal imaging methods in dementia, and their relationship to clinical assessment.
Joanna Mitchell: Data Manager
I have recently joined the group, based at R3 at Addenbrooke's, as data manger working closely with John and with Kate Dawson. My aim is to establish a comprehensive database containing all of the clinical and eventually radiological and neuropath data.
George Pengas: Clinical Research Fellow
My interest is in topographical and autobiographical episodic memory. I am funded by the Alzheimer's Research Trust to study these cognitive domains by contrasting Alzheimer's disease (AD), Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Semantic Dementia (SD) and Huntington's disease patients using novel computer-generated neuropsychological tests of topographical memory, autobiographical interviews, structural (MR) and functional (PET) imaging, in an attempt to identify the neural basis of these memory domains and develop them as cognitive markers to enhance specificity for the early diagnosis of MCI-stage AD.
Alison Yorke: Clinical Secretary
I am the secretary to Prof John Hodges, and also perform work for Chris Kipps, Andrew Graham, Jonathan Knibb, Peter Nestor, Thomas Bak and Robert Arnold, together with Jo and Kate.
Some Memory Group Alumni:
John Hodges
Former Professor of Behavioural Neurology; Now at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia [link]
John formerly ran (jointly with Dr. German Berrios, Dr Jeremy Brown and Dr Aidan Jones) the Memory Disorders Clinic and the multidisciplinary Early Onset Dementia Clinic at Addenbrooke's Hospital. Theoretical work based at the CBU focused on the organisation and neural basis of long-term memory, especially semantic and autobiographical memory. Clinical work related to the early diagnosis and differentiation of the dementias (Alzheimer's disease, semantic dementia, frontal dementia, PSP and Huntington's disease etc).
Kim Graham
Former Senior Scientist; Now Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University [link]
Kim's main research interest is the cognitive and neural organisation of human long-term memory. Research techniques include neuropsychological testing of patients with progressive and nonprogressive memory impairments, and the use of structural and functional neuroimaging in patients and healthy subjects. Projects at the CBU included: (a) understanding the role of medial and lateral temporal lobe structures in memory consolidation; (b) investigating how semantic knowledge interacts with other cognitive domains, particularly new learning and language; (c) determining the role of non-hippocampal medial cortices in long-term memory, and investigating the interactions between memory and visual processing; (d) elucidating how frontal and temporal regions interact to support memory retrieval; (e) investigating possible strategies for the acquisition of previously lost semantic knowledge; (f) determining the dissociability, both cognitively and neurally, of different types of long-term memory (e.g., autobiographical, semantic and episodic memory).
Rachel Holland
Rachel was a postdoctoral researcher with Karalyn Patterson.
Doris Eckstein
Doris held a Swiss Fellowship at the CBU; she has now returned to Switzerland.
Anna Woollams
Former postdoctoral researcher; Now lecturer at University of Manchester [link]
Audrey Duarte
Former postdoctoral researcher; Now assistant professor at Georgia Tech [link]
Samrah Ahmed
Former PhD student; Now a Clinical Training Fellow in Newcastle
Eneida Mioshi
Former PhD student; Now a postdoctoral researcher at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Karen Taylor
Former PhD student; Now a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Davis
Elisa Cooper Pye
Former RA; Now a PhD Student at the University of East London [link]
Lotte Meteyard
Former RA; Now studying in London