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Dr Samrah Ahmed

Email:
samrah.ahmed@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
100
Job title:
Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Academic Lead, Reading NeuroAge (formerly The Ageing Panel)
Dementia SIG Research Lead, British Geriatric Society
Editorial Board member, Frontiers in Neurology
STEM Ambassador

Areas of interest

Dementia diagnostics
Clinical phenotyping of dementia syndromes
Clinical neuropsychology and neuroimaging

Teaching

PY2PCP.

Research centres and groups

Dementia Neuroscience Group
Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN)
Acquired Neurological Disorders Group

Academic qualifications

BSc University of Durham
PhD University of Cambridge
Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Publications

Yong, K. ORCID: 0000-0002-9708-3599 , Graff-Radford, J. , Ahmed, S. , Chapleau, M. , Ossenkoppele, R. , Putcha, D. , Rabinovici, G. , Suarez-Gonzalez, A. , Schott, J. , Crutch, S. , Harding, E. (2023) Diagnosis and management of posterior cortical atrophy. Current Treatment Options in Neurology , 25 (2). pp. 23-43. ISSN: 1534-3138 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11940-022-00745-0

Bose, A. , Dutta, M. , Dash, N. , Nandi, R. , Dutt, A. , Ahmed, S. (2022) Importance of task selection for connected speech analysis in patients with Alzheimer’s disease from an ethnically diverse sample. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease , 87 (4). pp. 1475-1481. ISSN: 1875-8908 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-220166
Overman, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-2349-9508 , Drummond, N. , Butler, C. , Ahmed, S. (2022) Tracking the clinical progression of posterior cortical atrophy: implications for post-diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry , 93 (6). pp. 683-684. ISSN: 1468-330X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2021-327501

Bose, A. , Dash, N. , Ahmed, S. , Dutta, M. , Dutt, A. , Nandi, R. , Cheng, Y. , D. Mello, T. (2021) Connected speech characteristics of Bengali speakers with Alzheimer’s Disease: evidence for language-specific diagnostic markers. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience , 13 ISSN: 1663-4365 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.707628
Overman, J. , Zamboni, G. , Butler, C. , Ahmed, S. (2021) Splenial white matter integrity is associated with memory impairments in posterior cortical atrophy. Brain Communications , 3 (2). ISSN: 2632-1297 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcab060