Daniel Blackburn, MRCP, PhD

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Affiliation(s): 

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; University of Sheffield

Areas of Interest: 

Alzheimer's dementia diagnostics, EEG

Biography & Research: 

My research interests are into Post-Stroke Dementia and diagnostic tests for early dementia or cognitive impairment. I am investigating novel mechanisms of diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias using electroencephalography (EEG) and conversation analysis. I am a co-applicant on a NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme: PB-PG-0211-24079 – Using Conversation Analysis in the Differential Diagnosis of Memory Problems: a pilot study is using the technique of conversational analysis to explore how people with and without an organic memory disorder describe their subjective memory complaint. This work is being led by Professor Markus Reuber, who has used this technique in the field of epilepsy and non-epileptic attacks. I am PI for an Alzheimer’s Research United Kingdom (ARUK-PPG20114B-25) 2014-2016 (£29,805) to ‘Developing a new biomarker for the early diagnosis of dementia; a novel non-linear signal processing approach using resting state EEG’ This is in collaboration with Dr Ptolemy Sarrigianis in the department of Neurophysiology