Annalena Venneri,
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Affiliation(s):
University of Sheffield
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Areas of Interest:
early and differential diagnosis of dementia, cognitive markers, semantic decline, pharmacoimaging in Alzheimer´s disease, neuropsychiatric symptoms, lifestyle factors and risk of cognitive decline, structural and functional connectivity patterns in neurodegeneration, cognitive efficiency, genetic risk
Biography & Research:
Annalena Venneri is Professor of Translational Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She heads the Translational Neuropsychology Team and is dementia lead for the University of Sheffield and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Neuroscience. Prior to her appointment at Sheffield Medical School, she held a lectureship/senior lectureship at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and a full professorship at the University of Hull. In 2009, her scientific contribution to dementia research was acknowledged by a Career Excellence award. She is also member of the editorial board of several neuroscience journals and acting or associate editor for three journals. In her research she uses a combined cognitive and neuroimaging approach to improve the differential diagnosis of dementia syndromes, the characterisation of preclinical indicators of Alzheimer’s disease, the characterisation of imaging signatures of genetic risk, the definition of the effects of cognitive and brain reserve on cognitive efficiency in neurodegenerationare. She has published in high impact neuropsychology, neurology and neuroscience journals. Her work has been extensively featured in the media across the world, and disseminated in documentaries by BBC one, Channel 4 and RAI 2. She has received funding from the Alzheimer Research UK, MRC, EPSRC, NIHR, the Wellcome Trust, the Royal Society, the Leverhulme Trust, EU, MIUR, Italian Ministry of Health, the Denise Coates Foundation and the Sylvia Waddilove Foundation.
