Dr Daniel Blackburn

Journal articles

• Tao F, Mirheidari B, Pahar M, Young S, Xiao Y, Elghazaly H, Peters F, Illingworth C, Braun D, O’Malley R , Bell S et al (2025) Early Dementia Detection Using Multiple Spontaneous Speech Prompts: The PROCESS Challenge. ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 1-2.
• Pahar M, Tao F, Mirheidari B, Pevy N, Bright R, Gadgil S, Sproson L, Braun D, Illingworth C, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2025) CognoSpeak: an Automatic, Remote Assessment of Early Cognitive Decline in Real-World Conversational Speech. 2025 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Health and Medicine (CIHM), 1-7.
• Windeatt-Harrison IL, Walker T, Bell SM, Blackburn D, Dickson JM, Jones S, Wardrope A & Reuber M (2024) The First Step in Triadic Decision-Making Involving People with Dementia: Determining Who Talks When. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 57(4), 399-416.
• Manzoni C, Kia DA, Ferrari R, Leonenko G, Costa B, Saba V, Jabbari E, Tan MMX, Albani D, Alvarez V , Alvarez I et al (2024) Genome-wide analyses reveal a potential role for the MAPT, MOBP, and APOE loci in sporadic frontotemporal dementia. The American Journal of Human Genetics.
• Mirheidari B, Bell SM, Harkness K, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2024) Spoken language-based automatic cognitive assessment of stroke survivors. Language and Health.
• Cao J, Yang L, Sarrigiannis PG, Blackburn D & Zhao Y (2024) Dementia classification using a graph neural network on imaging of effective brain connectivity. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 168, 107701-107701.
• Blackburn DJ, Bell SM, Harkness K, O'Malley R, Chapman L, Lunn I, Mirheidari B & Christensen H (2023) Feasibility of longitudinal automated cognitive assessment in the stroke pathway. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19(S14).
• Blackburn DJ, Sproson L, Egbuta C, Bell SM, O'Malley R, Mirheidari B, Pevy N & Christensen H (2023) Developing an automated Cognitive assessment based on language; CognoSpeak‐ working with an ethnic minority group. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19(S20).
• Bell SM, Wareing H, Hamshaw A, De S, New E, Shaw P, De Marco M, Venneri A, Blackburn DJ, Ferraiuolo L & Mortiboys H (2023) Deficits in mitochondrial function and glucose metabolism seen in sporadic and familial Alzheimer’s disease derived Astrocytes are ameliorated by increasing hexokinase 1. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19(S13).
• Walker G, Walker T, O'Malley R, Mirheidari B, Christensen H, Reuber M & Blackburn D (2023) Features of answers to questions about recent events by people with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease, and healthy controls. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 14(3), 408-429. View this article in WRRO
• Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis P (2023) Adaptive Gated Graph Convolutional Network for Explainable Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease using EEG Data.. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng, PP.
• Walker G, Pevy N, O'Malley R, Mirheidari B, Reuber M, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2023) Speech patterns in responses to questions asked by an intelligent virtual agent can help to distinguish between people with early stage neurodegenerative disorders and healthy controls. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. View this article in WRRO
• Marco MD, Blackburn DJ, O'Malley R & Venneri A (2023) Differences between healthy adults and mild cognitive impairment patients in Category Fluency performance: A scoring method based on words’ Serial Recall Order and item‐level features. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19(S4).
• Gunawardena R, Sarrigiannis PG, Blackburn DJ & He F (2023) Kernel-based Nonlinear Manifold Learning for EEG-based Functional Connectivity Analysis and Channel Selection with Application to Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuroscience.
• Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis PG (2023) Cross-Frequency Multilayer Network Analysis with Bispectrum-based Functional Connectivity: A Study of Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuroscience, 521, 77-88.
• Mummery CJ, Börjesson-Hanson A, Blackburn DJ, Vijverberg EGB, De Deyn PP, Ducharme S, Jonsson M, Schneider A, Rinne JO, Ludolph AC , Bodenschatz R et al (2023) Tau-targeting antisense oligonucleotide MAPTRx in mild Alzheimer’s disease: a phase 1b, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Nature Medicine, 1-11.
• Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis P (2022) EEG-based graph neural network classification of Alzheimer’s disease: an empirical evaluation of functional connectivity methods. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 30, 2651-2660.
• Bell S, Harkness K, Roman M, Gardner J, Richards E, Howe J, Sikaonga M, Mirheidari B, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2022) 050 Feasibility of an automated assessment to measure cognition and mood in the acute stroke setting. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 93(9), e2.246-e2.246.
• Cao J, Zhao Y, Shan X, Blackburn D, Wei J, Erkoyuncu JA, Chen L & Sarrigiannis PG (2022) Ultra-high-resolution time-frequency analysis of EEG to characterise brain functional connectivity with the application in Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Neural Engineering, 19(4), 046034-046034.
• Sproson L, Mills N, Pryde L, Adebajo A, Coyle D, Preston J, Blackburn D, Christensen H & Lanfranchi V (2022) Keeping patient and public partnership at the heart of medical technology development during Covid-19 : examples of adaptive practice. Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology.
• Manca R, De Marco M, Colston A, Raymont V, Amin J, Davies R, Kumar P, Russell G, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A (2022) The impact of social isolation due to COVID-19 on symptom progression in people with dementia : findings of the SOLITUDE study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13.
• Manca R, De Marco M, Blackburn DJ, Russell G, Evans K, Kirkland S, Amin J, Davies L, Firth C, Raymont V , Colston A et al (2021) Study protocol: SOcial LImitations Turn Up DEmentia (SOLITUDE)—Impact of COVID‐19 social isolation on patients’ cognition and mental health and on carers’ wellbeing. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 17(S7). View this article in WRRO
• Brewer E, Mirheidari B, O'Malley R, Reuber M, Christensen H & Blackburn DJ (2021) Characterising spoken interactions of healthy ageing adults with CognoSpeak, a web‐based cognitive assessment tool. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 17(S5).
• Klepl D, He F, Wu M, De Marco M, Blackburn D & Sarrigiannis PG (2021) Characterising Alzheimers Disease with EEG-based Energy Landscape Analysis. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
• Ball HA, McWhirter L, Ballard C, Bhome R, Blackburn DJ, Edwards MJ, Fox NC, Howard R, Huntley J, Isaacs JD , Larner AJ et al (2021) Reply : Functional cognitive disorder : dementia's blind spot. Brain.
• De Marco M, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A (2021) Serial recall order and semantic features of category fluency words to study semantic memory in normal ageing. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 13.
• Mubarak Mohamed AS, Iqbal A, Prasad S, Hoggard N & Blackburn D (2021) Cushing’s disease presenting with psychosis. Practical Neurology, 21(4), 351-353.
• Beavis L, O'Malley R, Mirheidari B, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2021) How can automated linguistic analysis help to discern functional cognitive disorder from healthy controls and mild cognitive impairment?. BJPsych open, 7(Suppl 1), S7-S7.
• Beavis L, O'Malley R, Mirheidari B, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2021) How can automated linguistic analysis help to discern functional cognitive disorder from healthy controls and mild cognitive impairment?. BJPsych Open, 7(S1), S7-S7.
• Cao J, Grajcar K, Shan X, Zhao Y, Zou J, Chen L, Li Z, Grunewald R, Zis P, De Marco M , Unwin Z et al (2021) Using interictal seizure-free EEG data to recognise patients with epilepsy based on machine learning of brain functional connectivity. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 67.
• Bell SM, Barnes K, De Marco M, Shaw PJ, Ferraiuolo L, Blackburn DJ, Venneri A & Mortiboys H (2021) Mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease : a biomarker of the future?. Biomedicines, 9(1).
• Courtney E, Blackburn D & Reuber M (2021) Neurologists’ perceptions of utilising tele-neurology to practice remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patient Education and Counseling. View this article in WRRO
• O'Malley RPD, Mirheidari B, Harkness K, Reuber M, Venneri A, Walker T, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2021) Fully automated cognitive screening tool based on assessment of speech and language. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 92(1), 12-15.
• De Marco M, Manca R, Kirby J, Hautbergue G, Blackburn DJ, Wharton S & Venneri A (2020) The association between polygenic hazard scores and clinical markers of Alzheimer’s disease following stratification for APOE genotype. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16(S4).
• Bell SM, De Marco M, Barnes K, Shaw P, Ferraiuolo L, Blackburn DJ, Mortiboys H & Venneri A (2020) Do deficits in mitochondrial spare respiratory capacity contribute to neuropsychological changes seen in Alzheimer’s disease?. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16(S6).
• O'Malley R, Walker T, Mirheidari B, Christensen H, Reuber M, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A (2020) A fully automated cognitive screening tool based on assessment of speech and language. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16(S6).
• De Marco M, Manca R, Kirby J, Hautbergue GM, Blackburn DJ, Wharton SB & Venneri A (2020) The Association between Polygenic Hazard and Markers of Alzheimer’s Disease Following Stratification for APOE Genotype. Current Alzheimer Research, 17.
• Costa B, Manzoni C, Bernal-Quiros M, Kia DA, Aguilar M, Alvarez I, Alvarez V, Andreassen O, Anfossi M, Bagnoli S , Benussi L et al (2020) C9orf72, age at onset, and ancestry help discriminate behavioral from language variants in FTLD cohorts. Neurology, 95(24), e3288-e3302.
• Saxon JA, Thompson JC, Harris JM, Ealing J, Hamdalla H, Chaouch A, Young C, Blackburn D, Majeed T, Gall C , Richardson AMT et al (2020) The Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioral ALS Screen (ECAS) in frontotemporal dementia. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration.
• Ball HA, McWhirter L, Ballard C, Bhome R, Blackburn DJ, Edwards MJ, Fleming SM, Fox NC, Howard R, Huntley J , Isaacs JD et al (2020) Functional cognitive disorder : dementia’s blind spot. Brain. View this article in WRRO
• O’Malley R, Morris L-A, Longden C, Turner A, Walker T, Venneri A, Mirheidari B, Christensen H, Reuber M & Blackburn D (2020) 26 Can an automated assessment of language help distinguish between Functional Cognitive Disorder and early neurodegeneration?. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 91(8), e18.2-e19.
• Walker G, Morris L-A, Christensen H, Mirheidari B, Reuber M & Blackburn DJ (2020) Characterising spoken responses to an intelligent virtual agent by persons with mild cognitive impairment. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. View this article in WRRO
• Littlejohn J, Blackburn D & Venneri A (2020) Understanding the links between hearing impairment and dementia : development and validation of the social and emotional impact of hearing impairment (SEI-HI) questionnaire. Neurological Sciences. View this article in WRRO
• Goldstein LH, Robinson EJ, Mellers JDC, Stone J, Carson A, Reuber M, Medford N, McCrone P, Murray J, Richardson MP , Pilecka I et al (2020) Cognitive behavioural therapy for adults with dissociative seizures (CODES): a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Psychiatry, 7(6), 491-505. View this article in WRRO
• Bell SM, De Marco M, Barnes K, Shaw PJ, Ferraiuolo L, Blackburn DJ, Mortiboys H & Venneri A (2020) Deficits in mitochondrial spare respiratory capacity contribute to the neuropsychological changes of alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 10(2). View this article in WRRO
• Bell S, De Marco M, Barnes K, Shaw P, Ferraiuolo L, Blackburn D, Mortiboys H & Venneri A (2020) Do deficits in Mitochondrial Spare Respiratory Capacity contribute to Neuropsychological changes seen in Alzheimer’s disease? (798). Neurology, 94(15_supplement).
• O’Malley R, Mirheidari B, Harkness K, Walker T, Reuber M, Venneri A, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2020) A fully automated cognitive screening tool based on assessment of speech and language (5548). Neurology, 94(15_supplement).
• O’Malley R, Romanovsky C, Venneri A & Blackburn D (2019) 045 Food for thought: an unusual case of frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 90(12), a21.
• Cheesman A, Blackburn D, Carroll C, Cohen A, Coebergh J, Sokhi D, Wong SH & Woolmore J (2019) 11.39 Association of british neurologists sustainability special interest group (ABN sustainability SIG): formation, objectives and invitation. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 90(12), a2.
• Sarrigiannis PG, Zis P, Unwin ZC, Blackburn DJ, Hoggard N, Zhao Y, Billings SA, Khan AA, Yianni J & Hadjivassiliou M (2019) Tremor after long term lithium treatment; is it cortical myoclonus?. Cerebellum & Ataxias, 6(5). View this article in WRRO
• O’Malley R, Mirhedari B, Harkness K, Reuber M, Venneri A, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2019) 055 The digital doctor : a fully automated stratification and monitoring system for patients with memory complaints. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 90(12). View this article in WRRO
• O’Malley R, Brook E, Lewis A, Sonksen I, Mirhedari B, Venneri A, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2019) 056 Exploring the feasibility of automating verbal fluency tasks for cognitive assessment: data collection and analysis. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 90(12). View this article in WRRO
• Zhao Y, Zhao Y, Durongbhan P, Chen L, Liu J, Billings SA, Zis P, Unwin ZC, De Marco M, Venneri A , Blackburn DJ et al (2019) Imaging of nonlinear and dynamic functional brain connectivity based on EEG recordings with the application on the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. View this article in WRRO
• Goldstein LH, Robinson EJ, Reuber M, Chalder T, Callaghan H, Eastwood C, Landau S, McCrone P, Medford N, Mellers JDC , Moore M et al (2019) Characteristics of 698 patients with dissociative seizures: A UK multicenter study. Epilepsia, 60(11), 2182-2193. View this article in WRRO
• Jones SA, De Marco M, Manca R, Bell SM, Blackburn DJ, Wilkinson ID, Soininen H & Venneri A (2019) Altered frontal and insular functional connectivity as pivotal mechanisms for apathy in Alzheimer’s disease. Cortex, 119, 100-110. View this article in WRRO
• Mullin E, Aristotelidou V, Blackburn D, Jenkins T & Hadjivassiliou M (2019) Cognitive deficits in vasculitis of the nervous system: a cross-sectional study. Postgraduate Medicine, 131(7), 546-549.
• Al-Hameed S, Benaissa M, Christensen H, Mirheidari B, Blackburn D & Reuber M (2019) A new diagnostic approach for the identification of patients with neurodegenerative cognitive complaints. PLoS ONE, 14(5). View this article in WRRO
• Durongbhan P, Zhao Y, Chen L, Zis P, De Marco M, Unwin ZC, Venneri A, He X, Li S, Zhao Y , Blackburn DJ et al (2019) A Dementia Classification Framework using Frequency and Time-frequency Features based on EEG signals.. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. View this article in WRRO
• Zis P, Shafique F, Hadjivassiliou M, Blackburn D, Venneri A, Iliodromiti S, Mitsikostas DD & Sarrigiannis PG (2019) Safety, Tolerability, and Nocebo Phenomena During Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Placebo‐Controlled Clinical Trials. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface. View this article in WRRO
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Walker T, Reuber M & Christensen H (2019) Dementia detection using automatic analysis of conversations. Computer Speech and Language, 53, 65-79. View this article in WRRO
• Bell SM, Barnes K, Clemmens H, Al-Rafiah AR, Al-ofi EA, Leech V, Bandmann O, Shaw PJ, Blackburn DJ, Ferraiuolo L & Mortiboys H (2018) Ursodeoxycholic Acid Improves Mitochondrial Function and Redistributes Drp1 in Fibroblasts from Patients with either Sporadic or Familial Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Molecular Biology, 430(21), 3942-3953. View this article in WRRO
• Lee-Harris G, Blackburn D, Timmers R & Humberstone N (2018) Music for Relaxation: A Comparison Across Two Age Groups. Journal of Music Therapy, 55(4), 439-462. View this article in WRRO
• Walker T, Christensen H, Mirheidari B, Swainston T, Rutten C, Mayer I, Blackburn D & Reuber M (2018) Developing an intelligent virtual agent to stratify people with cognitive complaints: A comparison of human-patient and intelligent virtual agent-patient interaction.. Dementia. View this article in WRRO
• Alexander M, Blackburn D & Reuber M (2018) Patients’ accounts of memory lapses in interactions between neurologists and patients with functional memory disorders. Sociology of Health and Illness. View this article in WRRO
• Blackburn DJ, Zhao Y, De Marco M, Bell SM, He F, Wei H, Lawrence S, Unwin ZC, Blyth M, Angel J , Baster K et al (2018) A Pilot Study Investigating a Novel Non-Linear Measure of Eyes Open versus Eyes Closed EEG Synchronization in People with Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Controls. Brain Sciences, 8(7), 134-134. View this article in WRRO
• Meineke J, Wenzel F, De Marco M, Venneri A, Blackburn DJ, Teh K, Wilkinson ID & Katscher U (2018) Motion artifacts in standard clinical setting obscure disease-specific differences in quantitative susceptibility mapping.. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 63(14), 14nt01-14nt01. View this article in WRRO
• Reuber M, Blackburn DJ, Elsey C, Wakefield S, Ardern KA, Harkness K, Venneri A, Jones D, Shaw C & Drew P (2018) An Interactional Profile to Assist the Differential Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative and Functional Memory Disorders. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 32(3), 197-206. View this article in WRRO
• Blackburn DJ, Forbes M, Unwin Z, Hoggard N, Hadjivassiliou M & Sarrigiannis PG (2018) Exaggerated startle in post-infectious opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome. Clinical Neurophysiology, 129(7), 1372-1373. View this article in WRRO
• Bailey C, Poole N & Blackburn DJ (2018) Identifying patterns of communication in patients attending memory clinics: A systematic review of observations and signs with potential diagnostic utility. British Journal of General Practice, 68(667), e123-e138. View this article in WRRO
• Skrobot OA, Black SE, Chen C, DeCarli C, Erkinjuntti T, Ford GA, Kalaria RN, O'Brien J, Pantoni L, Pasquier F , Roman GC et al (2018) Progress toward standardized diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment: Guidelines from the Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 14(3), 280-292.
• Blackburn D, Mirheidari BM, Rutten C, Mayer I, Walker T, Christensen H & Rueber M (2017) PO029 An avatar aid in memory clinic. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 88(Suppl 1), A19.4-A20.
• O’Malley R, Igra M, Romanowski C, Sarrigiannis P & Blackburn D (2017) PO017 Seeing the wood for the trees: a challenging case of altered consciousness. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 88(Suppl 1), A17.1-A17.
• Wakefield SJ, Blackburn DJ, Harkness K, Khan A, Reuber M & Venneri A (2017) Distinctive neuropsychological profiles differentiate patients with functional memory disorder from patients with amnestic-mild cognitive impairment. Acta Neuropsychiatrica. View this article in WRRO
• Bell SM, Clemmens H, Blackburn DJ, Bandmann O, Ferraiuolo L & Mortiboys H (2017) [P4-034]: MITOCHONDRIAL ABNORMALITIES ARE FOUND IN FIBROBLASTS FROM SPORADIC ALZHEIMER's DISEASE PATIENTS: RECOVERY WITH URSODOXYCHOLIC ACID TREATMENT. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 13(7S_Part_26), P1269-P1269.
• Littlejohn JL, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A (2017) [P3-260]: CENTRAL AUDITORY DYSFUNCTION AS A MARKER OF NEURODEGENERATION. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 13(7S_Part_21), P1042-P1043.
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Harkness K, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2017) Toward the Automation of Diagnostic Conversation Analysis in Patients with Memory Complaints. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 58(2), 373-387. View this article in WRRO
• Bailey C, Bell SM & Blackburn DM (2017) How the UK describes functional memory symptoms. Psychogeriatrics. View this article in WRRO
• Bath PM, Scutt P, Blackburn DJ, Ankolekar S, Krishnan K, Ballard C, Burns A, Mant J, Passmore P, Pocock S , Reckless J et al (2017) Intensive versus Guideline Blood Pressure and Lipid Lowering in Patients with Previous Stroke: Main Results from the Pilot ‘Prevention of Decline in Cognition after Stroke Trial’ (PODCAST) Randomised Controlled Trial. PLOS ONE, 12(1). View this article in WRRO
• Skrobot OA, O'Brien J, Black S, Chen C, DeCarli C, Erkinjuntti T, Ford GA, Kalaria RN, Pantoni L, Pasquier F , Roman GC et al (2017) The Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 13(6), 624-633.
• Bell SM, Maniam R, Patel A, Harkness K & Blackburn D (2017) Patients who are not driving 6 weeks after transient ischaemic attack have higher levels of anxiety. Psychogeriatrics, 17(2), 146-146.
• Littlejohn JL, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A (2016) P2-307: Is Social Handicap the Link Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline? Development and Validation of a New Tool: The Social and Emotional Associations of Hearing Loss (SEAH). Alzheimer's & Dementia, 12, P753-P754.
• Blackburn DJ, Elsey C, Wakefield S, Harkness K, Venneri A, Drew P & Reuber M (2016) P2-188: CONVERSATION ANALYSIS IN THE MEMORY CLINIC TO DISTINGUISH DEMENTIA FROM FUNCTIONAL MEMORY DISORDER. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 12, P691-P691.
• Michel L, Blackburn DJ & Donckier J (2016) Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Subjects Who Were Children at the time of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident: Some Lessons for The Management of Fukushima’s Aftermaths. Jacobs Journal of Radiation Oncology, 3(2).
• Lewis R, Jenkins T, Wharton S, Lorenz E, Rao G, Stevens R, Hadjivassiliou M & Blackburn D (2016) A wolf in sheep's clothing. Practical Neurology, 16(2), 153-156.
• Jones D, Drew P, Elsey C, Blackburn D, Wakefield S, Harkness K & Reuber M (2016) Conversational assessment in memory clinic encounters: Interactional profiling for differentiating dementia from functional memory disorders. Aging and Mental Health, 20(5), 500-509. View this article in WRRO
• Sprange K, Mountain GA, Shortland K, Craig C, Blackburn DJ, Bowie P, Harkness K & Spencer M (2015) Journeying through Dementia, a community-based self-management intervention for people aged 65 years and over: a feasibility study to inform a future trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 1. View this article in WRRO
• Baker DJ, Blackburn DJ, Keatinge M, Sokhi D, Viskaitis P, Heath PR, Ferraiuolo L, Kirby J & Shaw PJ (2015) Lysosomal and phagocytic activity is increased in astrocytes during disease progression in the SOD1 G93A mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE, 9. View this article in WRRO
• Stone J, Pal S, Blackburn D, Reuber M, Thekkumpurath P & Carson A (2015) Functional (Psychogenic) Cognitive Disorders: A Perspective from the Neurology Clinic. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 48(s1), S5-S17.
• Elsey C, Drew P, Jones D, Blackburn D, Wakefield S, Harkness K, Venneri A & Reuber M (2015) Towards diagnostic conversational profiles of patients presenting with dementia or functional memory disorders to memory clinics. Patient Education and Counseling, 98(9), 1071-1077. View this article in WRRO
• Coates R, Bell SM, Coley S & Blackburn DJ (2015) Cerebral amyloid angiopathy: amyloid spells and cortical superficial siderosis. Practical Neurology, 15(2), 124-126.
• Bell S, Harkness K, Dickson JM & Blackburn D (2015) A diagnosis for £55: what is the cost of government initiatives in dementia case finding. Age and Ageing, 44(2), 344-345.
• Scutt P, Blackburn D, Krishnan K, Ballard C, Burns A, Ford GA, Mant J, Passmore P, Pocock S, Reckless J , Sprigg N et al (2015) Baseline characteristics, analysis plan and report on feasibility for the Prevention Of Decline in Cognition After Stroke Trial (PODCAST). Trials, 16. View this article in WRRO
• Blackburn DJ (2014) A Diagnosis for £55: what is the cost of government initiatives in dementia case finding?. Age and Ageing, 43(eLetters Supplement).
• Blackburn DJ, Wakefield S, Shanks MF, Harkness K, Reuber M & Venneri A (2014) Memory difficulties are not always a sign of incipient dementia: a review of the possible causes of loss of memory efficiency. British Medical Bulletin, 112(1), 71-81.
• Wakefield SJ, Blackburn D, Harkness K, Khan A, Reuber M & Venneri A (2014) P3-243: COMPARING THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES OF PATIENTS WITH MEMORY DISORDERS OF DIFFERENT AETIOLOGY. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 10, P721-P721.
• Blackburn DJ, Krishnan K, Fox L, Ballard C, Burns A, Ford GA, Mant J, Passmore P, Pocock S, Reckless J , Sprigg N et al (2013) Prevention of Decline in Cognition after Stroke Trial (PODCAST): a study protocol for a factorial randomised controlled trial of intensive versus guideline lowering of blood pressure and lipids. Trials, 14. View this article in WRRO
• Blackburn D, Wakefield S, Walpole P, Harkness K, Reuber M & Venneri A (2013) P2-364: The changing face of the memory clinic in Sheffield, United Kingdom. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 9, P493-P493.
• Khan K, Wakefield S, Blackburn D & Venneri A (2013) O3-04-06: Faster forgetting: Distinguishing Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia with delayed recall measures. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 9, P526-P526.
• Blackburn DJ, Alix JJP, Sarrigiannis P, Hoggard N & Bandmann O (2013) Delayed toxic–hypoxic encephalopathy. Practical Neurology, 13(2), 114-119.
• Iqbal AM, Blackburn D, Rafiq M & Sharrack B (2013) Wegener's granulomatosis presenting with multiple cranial nerve palsies and pachymeningitis. Practical Neurology, 13(3), 193-195.
• Blackburn D, Randall MS, Hoggard N, Highley R & Harkness K (2013) Trigeminal neuralgia: no laughing matter. Practical Neurology, 13(4), 263-267.
• Blackburn DJ, Fox L, Mangoyana M & Bath PMW (2013) Repeat cognitive screening (MoCA, MMSE & ACE-R, IQCODE) in a high risk post-stroke population: data from the 'Prevention Of Decline in Cognition After Stroke Trial' (POD-CAST). CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES, 35, 519-519.
• Alix JJP, Blackburn DJ, Sokhi D, Craven I, Sharrack B & Snowden JA (2013) Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation following pulsed cyclophosphamide in a severely disabled patient with malignant multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neurology, 260(3), 914-916.
• Blackburn DJ, Bafadhel L, Randall M & Harkness KA (2013) Cognitive screening in the acute stroke setting. Age and Ageing, 42(1), 113-116.
• Alix JJP, Blackburn DJ, Bhattacharyya D & Ponnusamy A (2012) Breathing arms. The Spine Journal, 12(7), 629-630.
• Sargsyan SA, Blackburn DJ, Barber SC, Grosskreutz J, De Vos KJ, Monk PN & Shaw PJ (2011) A comparison of in vitro properties of resting SOD1 transgenic microglia reveals evidence of reduced neuroprotective function. BMC Neuroscience, 12(1). View this article in WRRO
• Blackburn DJ, Walters S & Harkness K (2011) Letter by Blackburn et al Regarding Article, “Is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Superior to the Mini-Mental State Examination to Detect Poststroke Cognitive Impairment? A Study With Neuropsychological Evaluation”. Stroke, 42(11).
• Bosnell R, Alty JE, Blackburn DJ, Burness CE, Chowdhury R, Gosh BCP & Stanton BR (2011) PO.11 How is stroke thrombolysis affecting neurology training?. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 82(9), e4-e4.
• Blackburn D, Chavada G, Dunleavy D, Hoggard N, Sharrack B, Ponnusamy S & Price S (2011) PO.18 Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) presenting with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 82(9), e4-e4.
• Sargsyan SA, Blackburn DJ, Barber SC, Monk PN & Shaw PJ (2009) Mutant SOD1 G93A microglia have an inflammatory phenotype and elevated production of MCP-1. NeuroReport, 20(16), 1450-1455.
• BLACKBURN D, HIGHLEY JR, WHARTON S, ROMANOWSKI C, BOWEN J & SHARRACK B (2009) Antibody-negative neuromyelitis optica with heavy B-cell infiltration. APMIS, 117(10), 768-772.
• Blackburn D, Sargsyan S, Monk PN & Shaw PJ (2009) Astrocyte function and role in motor neuron disease: A future therapeutic target?. Glia, 57(12), 1251-1264.
• Blackburn D & Pengiran Tengah DS (2007) Why bother with research when training to be a neurologist?. Practical Neurology, 7(5), 282-284.
• Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Blackburn D & Christensen H () A two-step attention-based feature combination cross-attention system for speech-based dementia detection. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. View this article in WRRO
• Patel H, Blackburn D, Hariharan R, Nair KPS & Bell SM () Improving current understanding of cognitive impairment in patients with a spinal cord injury: A UK-based clinician survey. The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 1-7.
• Bell SM, Wareing H, Capriglia F, Hughes R, Barnes K, Hamshaw A, Adair L, Shaw A, Olejnik A, De S , New E et al () Increasing hexokinase 1 expression improves mitochondrial and glycolytic functional deficits seen in sporadic Alzheimer’s disease astrocytes. Molecular Psychiatry.
• Littlejohn J, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A () Testing central auditory processing abilities in older adults with and without dementia using the consonant-vowel dichotic listening task. Frontiers in Dementia, 2, 1207546.
• Mummery CJ, Börjesson-Hanson A, Blackburn DJ, Vijverberg EGB, De Deyn PP, Ducharme S, Jonsson M, Schneider A, Rinne JO, Ludolph AC , Bodenschatz R et al () Author Correction: Tau-targeting antisense oligonucleotide MAPTRx in mild Alzheimer’s disease: a phase 1b, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Nature Medicine.
• Hadjivassiliou M, Blackburn D, O’Malley R & Hoggard N () IgG4 Disease-Related Ataxia. The Cerebellum.
• Wardrope A, Bell S, Blackburn D, Dickson J, Reuber M & Walker T () Understanding the autonomy of adults with impaired capacity through dialogue. Journal of Medical Ethics.
• Vázquez-Villaseñor I, Smith CI, Thang YJR, Heath PR, Wharton SB, Blackburn DJ, Ridger VC & Simpson JE () RNA-Seq Profiling of Neutrophil-Derived Microvesicles in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients Identifies a miRNA Signature That May Impact Blood–Brain Barrier Integrity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(11), 5913-5913.
• Manca R, De Marco M, Colston A, Raymont V, Amin J, Davies R, Kumar P, Russell G, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A () The impact of social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with dementia and caregivers. Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 1-19.
• Aftab A, Sidhom E, Forrest A, Judge N, Underwood BR, Harkness K & Blackburn DJ () Patient and clinician experience of providing remote memory assessment services. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
• Gunawardena SRAS, Sarrigiannis PG, Blackburn DJ & He F () A Kernel-based Nonlinear Manifold Learning for EEG Channel Selection with Application to Alzheimer’s Disease.
• Dake MD, De Marco M, Blackburn DJ, Wilkinson ID, Remes A, Liu Y, Pikkarainen M, Hallikainen M, Soininen H & Venneri A () Obesity and Brain Vulnerability in Normal and Abnormal Aging: A Multimodal MRI Study. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, 1-13.
• Bell SM, Burgess T, Lee J, Blackburn DJ, Allen SP & Mortiboys H () Peripheral Glycolysis in Neurodegenerative Diseases. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(23), 8924-8924.
• Aitchison C, Blackburn DJ, Khan A, Grünewald RA & Jenkins TM () Diagnostic and investigative approach of consultant neurologists in a real‐world clinical setting: a pilot study. International Journal of Clinical Practice.
• Saxon JA, Thompson JC, Harris JM, Richardson AM, Langheinrich T, Rollinson S, Pickering-Brown S, Chaouch A, Ealing J, Hamdalla H , Young CA et al () Cognition and behaviour in frontotemporal dementia with and without amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
• Pattrick M, Sarrigiannis PG, Kruger S, Davies B, Hoggard N, Irani SR, Unwin Z, Zis P, Blackburn DJ & Hadjivassiliou M () Brain hyper-excitability in DPPX ataxia. Journal of Neurology.
• Gunawardena SRAS, He F, Sarrigiannis P & Blackburn DJ () Nonlinear Classification of EEG recordings from patients with Alzheimer's Disease using Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model.
• Sokhi DS, Oxenham C, Coates R, Forbes M, Gupta NK & Blackburn DJ () Four-Stage Audit Demonstrating Increased Uptake of HIV Testing in Acute Neurology Admissions Using Staged Practical Interventions. PLOS ONE, 10(9), e0134574-e0134574. View this article in WRRO
• Hughes HC () Blindness in a case of tetanus. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 77(3), 420-421.
• Simon M Bell, Rejina Maniam, Alisha Patel, Kirsty Harkness, and Daniel Blackburn () Patients who are not driving 6 weeks after TIA have higher levels of anxiety. Psychogeriatrics..

Conference proceedings papers

• Mirheidari B, Malley RO, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2023) Identifying People with Mild Cognitive Impairment at Risk of Developing Dementia using Speech Analysis. 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 16 December 2023 - 20 December 2023.
• Goerttler S, He F, Wu M, Blackburn D & Sarrigiannis P (2023) Comparing Spatial and Spectral Graph Filtering for Preprocessing Neurophysiological Signals. 2023 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB), 2 December 2023 - 2 December 2023.
• Lanfranchi V, Fadlian M, Koilpillai SGA, Sproson L, Burke M, Chapman S & Blackburn D (2023) Understanding Driving Behaviour in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairments: A Naturalistic Study (pp 263-274)
• Alzahrani F, Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Maddock S & Christensen H (2023) Investigating Visual Features for Cognitive Impairment Detection Using In-the-wild Data. 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 5 January 2023 - 8 January 2023.
• Gunawardena R, Sarrigiannis PG, Blackburn DJ & He F (2022) Kernel-based Nonlinear Manifold Learning for EEG Functional Connectivity Analysis with Application to Alzheimer's Disease. 2022 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB), 3 December 2022 - 3 December 2022.
• Klepl D, He F, Min W, Blackburn D & Sarrigiannis P (2022) Bispectrum-based Cross-frequency Functional Connectivity: Classification of Alzheimer's disease. 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 11 July 2022 - 15 July 2022.
• Pan Y, Nallanthighal VS, Blackburn D, Christensen H & Harma A (2021) Multi-Task Estimation of Age and Cognitive Decline from Speech. ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
• Attas D, Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Venneri A, Walker T, Harkness K, Reuber M, Blackmore C & Christensen H (2021) Predicting Levels of Depression and Anxiety in People with Neurodegenerative Memory Complaints Presenting with Confounding Symptoms. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 285 (pp 58-69)
• Alzahrani F, Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Maddock S & Christensen H (2021) Eye Blink Rate Based Detection of Cognitive Impairment Using In-the-wild Data. 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2021
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, OrMalley R, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2019) Computational Cognitive Assessment: Investigating the Use of an Intelligent Virtual Agent for the Detection of Early Signs of Dementia. ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 12 May 2019 - 17 May 2019.
• Blackburn D, Sarrigiannis P, Yifan Z, De Marco M, Bell S, Venneri A, Billings S, Farrow T, Fei H, Unwin Z , Blythe M et al (2017) A novel quantitative EEG approach to distiguish Alzheimer’s disease from fronto tempura dementia and healthy controls. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Vol. 381 (pp 319-319)
• Blackburn D, Reuber M, Christensen H, Mayer I, Rutten C, Venneri A, chirs E & Mirheidari B (2017) An avatar to screen for cognitive impairment. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Vol. 381 (pp 319-319)
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn DJ, Harkness K, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2017) An Avatar-based system for identifying individuals likely to develop dementia. Interspeech 2017 (pp 3147-3151) View this article in WRRO
• Jones D, Reuber M, Elsey C, Blackburn D, Wakefield S, Ardern KA, Harkness K, Venneri A, Shaw C & Drew P (2017) CONVERSATIONAL ASSESSMENT IN MEMORY CLINIC ENCOUNTERS: CREATING A DIAGNOSTIC SCORING AID FOR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF DEMENTIA AND FUNCTIONAL MEMORY DISORDERS. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol. 13(7) (pp P1238-P1238), 15 July 2017 - 20 July 2017. View this article in WRRO
• Blackburn D, Yifan Z, Bell S, Marco MD, He F, Wilkinson I, Farrow T, Venneri A & Sarrigiannis P (2016) QEEG CAN DISTINGUISH PATIENTS WITH AD AND VOLUNTEERS. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 87(12) (pp e1.192-e1)
• Blackburn D, Elsey C, Harkness K, Wakefield S, Venneri A, Drew P & Reuber M (2016) CONVERSATION ANALYSIS IN THE MEMORY CLINIC. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 87(12) (pp e1.191-e1)
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Reuber M, Walker T & Christensen H (2016) Diagnosing people with dementia using automatic conversation analysis. Proceedings of Interspeech 2016 (pp 1220-1224) View this article in WRRO
• Blackburn DJ, Zhou Y, Bell S, De Marco M, Wilkinson I, He F, Wei HL, Farrow T, Venneri A & Sarrigiannis P (2016) O4-09-02: Quantitative Eeg Can Identify Difference Between Patients with Alzheimer's Disease and Healthy Volunteers on an Individual Level. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol. 12 (pp P353-P354)
• Rohrer JD, Devine H, Foulkes A, Johnston A, Mallam B, Marshall C, Stanton B, Thomas R & Blackburn D (2014) DEVELOPING A NEUROLOGY MENTORING PROGRAMME FOR TRAINEES. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 85(10) (pp e4.162-e4)
• Blackburn D, Wakefield S, Bell S, Harkness K, Venneri A & Reuber M (2014) FUNCTIONAL MEMORY DISORDER; REVIEW FROM A MEMORY CLINIC. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 85(10) (pp e4.137-e4)
• LittleJohn J, Dennis G, Bianchi S, Harkness K, Thiyagesh S & Blackburn D (2014) PREVALENCE OF SLEEP DISORDERS IN A MEMORY CLINIC POPULATION. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 85(10) (pp e4.171-e4)
• Blackburn D, Alix JP & Bandmann O (2012) A NIGHT TO REMEMBER: ALL WHITE THEN, ALL RIGHT NOW?. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 83(Suppl 2) (pp A16.2-A16)
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D & Christensen H () Automatic cognitive assessment: Combining sparse datasets with disparate cognitive scores. Interspeech 2022
• Hollands S, Blackburn D & Christensen H () Evaluating the Performance of State-of-the-Art ASR Systems on Non-Native English using Corpora with Extensive Language Background Variation. Interspeech 2022
• Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Harris JM, Thompson JC, Jones M, Snowden JS, Blackburn D & Christensen H () Using the Outputs of Different Automatic Speech Recognition Paradigms for Acoustic- and BERT-Based Alzheimer’s Dementia Detection Through Spontaneous Speech. Interspeech 2021
• Mirheidari B, Pan Y, Blackburn D, O’Malley R & Christensen H () Identifying Cognitive Impairment Using Sentence Representation Vectors. Interspeech 2021
• Cummins N, Pan Y, Ren Z, Fritsch J, Nallanthighal VS, Christensen H, Blackburn D, Schuller BW, Magimai-Doss M, Strik H & Härmä A () A Comparison of Acoustic and Linguistics Methodologies for Alzheimer’s Dementia Recognition. Interspeech 2020
• Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H () Improving Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Automatic Speech Recognition to Identify High-Quality Segments for More Robust Feature Extraction. Interspeech 2020
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, O’Malley R, Venneri A, Walker T, Reuber M & Christensen H () Improving Cognitive Impairment Classification by Generative Neural Network-Based Feature Augmentation. Interspeech 2020
• Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Tu Z, O’Malley R, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M, Blackburn D & Christensen H () Acoustic Feature Extraction with Interpretable Deep Neural Network for Neurodegenerative Related Disorder Classification. Interspeech 2020
• Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H () Automatic Hierarchical Attention Neural Network for Detecting AD. Interspeech 2019
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H () Detecting Signs of Dementia Using Word Vector Representations. Interspeech 2018

Preprints

• Pahar M, Tao F, Mirheidari B, Pevy N, Bright R, Gadgil S, Sproson L, Braun D, Illingworth C, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2025) CognoSpeak: an automatic, remote assessment of early cognitive decline in real-world conversational speech, arXiv.
• Tao F, Mirheidari B, Pahar M, Young S, Xiao Y, Elghazaly H, Peters F, Illingworth C, Braun D, O'Malley R , Bell S et al (2024) Early Dementia Detection Using Multiple Spontaneous Speech Prompts: The PROCESS Challenge, arXiv.
• Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis PG (2023) Adaptive Gated Graph Convolutional Network for Explainable Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease using EEG Data, arXiv.
• Bell SM, Wareing H, Hamshaw A, De S, New E, Shaw PJ, De Marco M, Venneri A, Blackburn DJ, Ferraiuolo L & Mortiboys H (2023) Deficits in mitochondrial function and glucose metabolism seen in sporadic and familial Alzheimer’s disease derived Astrocytes are ameliorated by increasing hexokinase 1 expression, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis PG (2022) Bispectrum-based Cross-frequency Functional Connectivity: Classification of Alzheimer's disease, arXiv.
• Klepl D, He F, Wu M, De Marco M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis P (2021) Characterising Alzheimer's Disease with EEG-based Energy Landscape Analysis, arXiv.
• Aitchison C, Blackburn D, Khan A, newald RG & Jenkins T (2020) Diagnostic & investigative approach of consultant neurologists in a real-world clinical setting, Authorea.
• Mirheidari B, Pan Y, Blackburn D, O'Malley R, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2020) Data augmentation using generative networks to identify dementia, arXiv.
• Mirheidari B, Pan Y, Walker T, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2019) Detecting Alzheimer's Disease by estimating attention and elicitation path through the alignment of spoken picture descriptions with the picture prompt. View this article in WRRO
• Mirheidari B, Pan Y, Walker T, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2019) Detecting Alzheimer's Disease by estimating attention and elicitation path through the alignment of spoken picture descriptions with the picture prompt, arXiv.
• Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis PG () EEG-based Graph Neural Network Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease: An Empirical Evaluation of Functional Connectivity Methods, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis PG () Bispectrum-based Cross-frequency Functional Connectivity: A Study of Alzheimer’s Disease, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.