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  • Psychiatry
    • Research Theme Neurons, Circuits and Networks Lifelong Brain Development and Brain Ageing
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    Dr Elizabeth McKiernan BA, MSc. MBChB, MRCPsych

    University Position
    PhD student

    Interests

    I am an Old Age Psychiatry trainee and Alzheimer's Society Clinical Research Fellow working towards a PhD in Psychiatry under Professor John O'Brien. My primary research interest is in using ultrahigh resolution MRI to investigate neurodegenerative dementias especially Lewy body diseases.

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    Key Publications

    Neuroimaging and Clinical Findings in Healthy Middle-Aged Adults With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the PREVENT Dementia Study.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.26774
    Journal: JAMA Netw Open
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2024
    Authors: A Low, E McKiernan, MA Prats-Sedano, SF Carter, JD Stefaniak, L Su, M-E Dounavi, G Muniz-Terrera, N Jenkins, K Bridgeman, K Ritchie, B Lawlor, L Naci, P Malhotra, C Mackay, I Koychev, T Thayanandan, V Raymont, CW Ritchie, W Stewart, JT O'Brien, PREVENT Dementia Investigators

    Publications

    Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors of dementia on midlife cerebral small vessel disease in cognitively healthy middle-aged adults: the PREVENT-Dementia study.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-022-01095-4
    Journal: Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
    E-pub date: 12 Oct 2022
    Authors: A Low, MA Prats-Sedano, E McKiernan, SF Carter, JD Stefaniak, S Nannoni, L Su, M-E Dounavi, G Muniz-Terrera, K Ritchie, B Lawlor, L Naci, P Malhotra, C Mackay, I Koychev, CW Ritchie, HS Markus, JT O'Brien

    CAIDE dementia risk score relates to severity and progression of cerebral small vessel disease in healthy midlife adults: the PREVENT-Dementia study.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2021-327462
    Journal: J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
    E-pub date: 1 May 2022
    Authors: A Low, MA Prats-Sedano, JD Stefaniak, EF McKiernan, SF Carter, M-E Douvani, E Mak, L Su, O Stupart, G Muniz, K Ritchie, CW Ritchie, HS Markus, JT O'Brien

    Evidence of cerebral hemodynamic dysregulation in middle-aged APOE ε4 carriers: The PREVENT-Dementia study.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0271678X211020863
    Journal: J Cereb Blood Flow Metab
    E-pub date: 1 Nov 2021
    Authors: M-E Dounavi, A Low, EF McKiernan, E Mak, G Muniz-Terrera, K Ritchie, CW Ritchie, L Su, JT O'Brien

    Proximity to dementia onset and multi-modal neuroimaging changes: The prevent-dementia study.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117749
    Journal: Neuroimage
    E-pub date: 1 Apr 2021
    Authors: E Mak, M-E Dounavi, A Low, SF Carter, E McKiernan, GB Williams, PS Jones, I Carriere, GT Muniz, K Ritchie, C Ritchie, L Su, JT O'Brien