Lucy is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Bluefield Project. She has a BSc in Psychology from the University of Plymouth and joined the team as a research assistant after graduating in 2015. She worked as the co-ordinator for the LIFTD study and then started a PhD in 2016. Her PhD investigated the role of social cognition in FTD including within the GENFI study. As part of her PhD she also developed a novel set of instructionless eye tracking tasks to study social cognition in FTD. She is now the co-ordinator of the FTD Prevention Initiative, helping to link together the genetic FTD cohort studies from around the world, and liaising with pharmaceutical companies as new drug trials start for people with FTD.
- 11th ICFTD (Sydney, November 2018): Novel eye tracking tasks assess emotional processing in individuals with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia
- AAIC 2023 (Amsterdam, July 2023): Using GENFI participant engagement to inform observational research and clinical trials
- AAIC 2021 (virtual, July 2021): Eye-tracking task detects early executive function deficits in presymptomatic FTD
- ARUK 2021 (virtual, March 2021): The Frontotemporal dementia Prevention Initiative (FPI): working towards therapeutic treatments for genetic FTD
- BNS 2019 (London, November 2019): Novel eye tracking tasks assess emotional processing in individuals with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia
- 11th ICFTD (Sydney, November 2018): Social cognitive impairment in familial frontotemporal dementia: results from the GENFI study
- AAIC 2017 (London, July 2017): Evaluating distinct components of empathic behaviour in frontotemporal dementia
- 10th ICFTD (Munich, September 2016): Investigating the role of face processing in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia
- ARUK Conference 2016 (Manchester, March 2016): Investigating the role of face processing in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia
- Neuropsychiatric symptoms in genetic frontotemporal dementia: developing a new module for Clinical Rating Scales. Samra K, MacDougall AM, Peakman G, Bouzigues A, Bocchetta M, Cash DM, Greaves CV, Convery RS, van Swieten JC, Jiskoot LC, Seelaar H, Moreno F, Sanchez-Valle R, Laforce R, Graff C, Masellis M, Tartaglia MC, Rowe JB, Borroni B, Finger E, Synofzik M, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonça A, Butler CR, Gerhard A, Ducharme S, Le Ber I, Tiraboschi P, Santana I, Pasquier F, Levin J, Otto M, Sorbi S, Rohrer JD, Russell LL; Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI). 2023; 94:357-368.
- Motor symptoms in genetic frontotemporal dementia: developing a new module for clinical rating scales. Samra K, MacDougall AM, Peakman G, Bouzigues A, Bocchetta M, Cash DM, Greaves CV, Convery RS, van Swieten JC, Jiskoot LC, Seelaar H, Moreno F, Sanchez-Valle R, Laforce R, Graff C, Masellis M, Tartaglia MC, Rowe JB, Borroni B, Finger E, Synofzik M, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonça A, Butler CR, Gerhard A, Ducharme S, Le Ber I, Tiraboschi P, Santana I, Pasquier F, Levin J, Otto M, Sorbi S, Rohrer JD, Russell LL; Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI). Journal of Neurology. 2023; 270:1466-1477.
- Prodromal language impairment in genetic frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI cohort. Samra K, MacDougall AM, Bouzigues A, Bocchetta M, Cash DM, Greaves CV, Convery RS, van Swieten JC, Jiskoot LC, Seelaar H, Moreno F, Sanchez-Valle R, Laforce R, Graff C, Masellis M, Tartaglia MC, Rowe JB, Borroni B, Finger E, Synofzik M, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonça A, Butler CR, Gerhard A, Ducharme S, Le Ber I, Tiraboschi P, Santana I, Pasquier F, Levin J, Otto M, Sorbi S, Rohrer JD, Russell LL; Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI). Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 2023;451:120711.
- Language impairment in the genetic forms of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. Samra K, MacDougall AM, Bouzigues A, Bocchetta M, Cash DM, Greaves CV, Convery RS, van Swieten JC, Seelaar H, Jiskoot LC, Moreno F, Sanchez-Valle R, Laforce R, Graff C, Masellis M, Tartaglia MC, Rowe JB, Borroni B, Finger E, Synofzik M, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonça A, Butler CR, Gerhard A, Ducharme S, Le Ber I, Tiraboschi P, Santana I, Pasquier F, Levin J, Otto M, Sorbi S, Rohrer JD, Russell LL; Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI). Journal of Neurology. 2023;270:1976-1988.
- Genetic forms of primary progressive aphasia within the GENetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI) cohort: comparison with sporadic primary progressive aphasia. Samra K, MacDougall AM, Bouzigues A, Bocchetta M, Cash DM, Greaves CV, Convery RS, Hardy C, van Swieten JC, Seelaar H, Jiskoot LC, Moreno F, Sanchez-Valle R, Laforce R, Graff C, Masellis M, Tartaglia MC, Rowe JB, Borroni B, Finger E, Synofzik M, Galimberti D, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonça A, Butler CR, Gerhard A, Ducharme S, Le Ber I, Santana I, Pasquier F, Levin J, Otto M, Sorbi S, Warren JD, Rohrer JD, Russell LL; Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI). Brain Communications. 2023;5(2).
- Defining the presymptomatic phase of frontotemporal dementia. Russell LL, Rohrer JD. Current Opinion Neurology. 2023;36(4):276-282.
- Eye movements in frontotemporal dementia: Abnormalities of fixation, saccades and anti-saccades. Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2021 Dec 31;7(1):e12218.
- Social cognition impairment in genetic frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI cohort. Cortex. 2020;133:384-398.
