Lucy Russell

Postdoctoral Researcher

Website

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5023-5893

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.

Invited Talks

11th ICFTD (Sydney, November 2018): Novel eye tracking tasks assess emotional processing in individuals with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

Posters

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

First Author Publications

Eye movements in frontotemporal dementia: Abnormalities of fixation, saccades and anti-saccades. Russell LL, Greaves CV, Convery RS, Bocchetta M, Warren JD, Kaski D, Rohrer JD. Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2021 Dec 31;7(1):e12218.
Novel instructionless eye tracking tasks identify emotion recognition deficits in frontotemporal dementia. Russell LL, Greaves CV, Convery RS, Nicholas J, Warren JD, Kaski D, Rohrer JD. Alzheimers Res Ther. 2021;13(1):39.
Social cognition impairment in genetic frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI cohort. Russell LL, Greaves CV, Bocchetta M, Nicholas J, Convery RS, Moore K, Cash DM, van Swieten J, Jiskoot L, Moreno F, Sanchez-Valle R, Borroni B, Laforce R Jr, Masellis M, Tartaglia MC, Graff C, Rotondo E, Galimberti D, Rowe JB, Finger E, Synofzik M, Vandenberghe R, de Mendonça A, Tagliavini F, Santana I, Ducharme S, Butler C, Gerhard A, Levin J, Danek A, Otto M, Warren JD, Rohrer JD; Genetic FTD Initiative, GENFI. Cortex. 2020;133:384-398.