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Roger Staff - Senior Physicist, Department of Biomedical Physics, University of Aberdeen

Title:

Cognitive Reserve: Should we take it seriously?

Biography:

Dr Roger Staff is a full time clinical scientist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI), Aberdeen, Scotland, based in the department of Medical Physics.  The department has a long history of innovation in medical imaging and its applications to which Dr Staff is the latest in a long line of creditable scientist.  After finishing his first degree in physics at the University of East Anglia Dr Staff and completing a Masters and a PhD at the University of Aberdeen before joining the staff at ARI.  Although he has a wide range of academic interest including oncology and the use of imaging in a translational context his core research interest is in the aging and dementing brain.  Recently this has been focused around the analysis of the Aberdeen birth cohorts of 1936 and 1921.  He is current investigative focus is the influence of potential cerebral reserve proxies on old age cognition.  

Relevant Publications:

1. Staff RT, Murray AD, Deary IJ, Whalley LJ. Generality and specificity in cognitive aging: A volumetric brain analysis. Neuroimage 2006; 30(4):1433-40.
2. Murray AD, Staff RT, Shenkin SD et al. Brain white matter hyperintensities: Relative importance of vascular risk factors in nondemented elderly people. Radiology 2005; 237(1):251-7.
3. Ahearn TS, Staff RT, Redpath TW, Semple SIK. The use of the Levenberg-Marquardt curve-fitting algorithm in pharmacokinetic modelling of DCE-MRI data. Physics in Medicine and Biology 2005; 50(9):N85-N92.
4. Staff RT, Murray AD, Deary IJ, Whalley LJ. What provides cerebral reserve? Brain 2004; 127:1191-9.
5. Deary IJ, Leaper SA, Murray AD, Staff RT, Whalley LJ. Cerebral white matter abnormalities and lifetime cognitive change: A 67-year follow-up of the Scottish mental survey of 1932. Psychology and Aging 2003; 18(1):140-8.
6. Leaper SA, Murray AD, Lemmon HA et al. Neuropsychologic correlates of brain white matter lesions depicted on MR images: 1921 Aberdeen birth cohort. Radiology 2001; 221(1):51-5.
7. Venneri A, Shanks MF, Staff RT et al. Restoring function: Treatment effects in Alzheimer's disease patients treated with rivastigmine. Neurology 2001; 56(8):A457.
8. Staff RT, Venneri A, Gemmell HG et al. HMPAO SPECT imaging of Alzheimer's disease patients with similar content-specific autobiographic delusion: Comparison using statistical parametric mapping. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2000; 41(9):1451-5.
9. Staff RT, Gemmell HG, Shanks MF, Murray AD, Venneri A. Changes in the rCBF images of patients with Alzheimer's disease receiving Donepezil therapy. Nuclear Medicine Communications 2000; 21(1):37-41.
10. Staff RT, Shanks MF, Macintosh L et al. Delusions in Alzheimer's disease: SPET evidence of right hemispheric dysfunction. Cortex 1999; 35(4):549-60.

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