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Dr Christopher McNeil

Dr Christopher McNeil
Dr Christopher McNeil
Dr Christopher McNeil

Research Fellow

About
Email Address
c.mcneil@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 438353
Office Address
F04 Lilian Sutton Building University of Aberdeen Foresterhill
School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Research

Research Overview

Brain Aging, imaging of subclinical and clinical brain abnormalities, the causes and consequences of cerebrovascular disease, nutrition and the brain, developmental programming of the brain.

Collaborations

SINAPSE, The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health.

Publications

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  • FDG-PET Image Classification in Alzheimer’s Disease: from Traditional Visual Analysis to Advanced Transfer Learning

    Tripathi, S., McNeil, C., Staff, R., Murray, A., Wischik, C., Schelter, B., Waiter, G.
    Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, vol. 59, pp. 201-208
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Influence of Birth Weight, Socio-Economic Status, and Adult Health on Brain Volumes during Ageing

    McNeil, C., Habota, T., Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G., Whalley, H. C., Murray, A. D., Murray, A. D.
    Neuroepidemiology
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Associations between sex, systemic iron and inflammatory status and subcortical brain iron

    Spence, H., Mengoa-Fleming, S., Sneddon, A., McNeil, C., Waiter, G.
    European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 60, no. 5
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Disrupted Limbic-Prefrontal Effective Connectivity in Response to Fearful Faces in Lifetime Depression

    Stolicyn, A., Harris, M. A., Nooij, L. d., Shen, X., Macfarlane, J. A., Campbell, A., McNeil, C. J., Sandu, A., Murray, A. D., Waiter, G. D., Lawrie, S. M., Steele, D. J., McIntosh, A. M., Romaniuk, L., Whalley, H. C.
    Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 351, pp. 983-993
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Associations between sex, systemic iron and inflammatory status and subcortical brain iron

    Spence, H., Mengoa-Fleming, S., Sneddon, A. A., McNeil, C. J., Waiter, G. D.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers

  • Structural brain correlates of childhood trauma with replication across two large, independent community-based samples

    Madden, R. A., Atkinson, K., Shen, X., Green, C., Hillary, R. F., Hawkins, E., Såge, E., Sandu, A., Waiter, G., McNeil, C., Harris, M., Campbell, A., Porteous, D., Macfarlane, J. A., Murray, A., Steele, D., Romaniuk, L., Lawrie, S. M., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C.
    European Psychiatry, vol. 66, no. 1, e19
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Cognition and brain iron deposition in whole grey matter regions and hippocampal subfields

    Spence, H., McNeil, C. J., Waiter, G. D.
    European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 6039-6054
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Sexual dimorphism in the relationship between brain complexity, volume and general intelligence (g): a cross-cohort study

    Sandu, A., Waiter, G. D., Staff, R. T., Nazlee, N., Habota, T., McNeil, C. J., Chapko, D., Williams, J. H., Fall, C. H. D., Chandak, G. R., Pene, S., Krishna, M., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C., Kumaran, K., Krishnaveni, G. V., Murray, A. D.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 12, 11025
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Epigenome-wide association study of global cortical volumes in Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study

    Barbu, M. C., Harris, M., Shen, X., Aleks, S., Green, C., Amador, C., Walker, R., Morris, S., Adams, M., Sandu, A., McNeil, C., Waiter, G., Evans, K., Campbell, A., Wardlaw, J., Steele, D., Murray, A., Porteous, D., McIntosh, A., Whalley, H.
    Epigenetics, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 1143–1158
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Spectral Clustering Based on Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging and its Relationship with Major Depressive Disorder and Cognitive Ability

    Yeung, H. W., Shen, X., Stolicyn, A., De Nooij, L., Harris, M. A., Romaniuk, L., Buchanan, C. R., Waiter, G. D., Sandu, A., McNeil, C. J., Murray, A., Steele, J. D., Campbell, A., Porteous, D., Lawrie, S. M., McIntosh, A. M., Cox, S. R., Smith, K. M., Whalley, H. C.
    European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 6281-6303
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A cross-cohort study: sexual dimorphism in the relationship between brain complexity & intelligence

    Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G., Nazlee, N., Habota, T., McNeil, C., Chapko, D., Williams, J. H., Fall, C., Chandak, G., Pene, S., Krishna, M., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C., Kumaran, K., Krishnaveni, G., Murray, A.
    Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • Imprinting methylation predicts hippocampal volumes and hyperintensities and the change with age in later life

    Ritchie, M., Murray, A., Staff, R., Ferguson-Smith, A. C., Richards, M., Horgan, G. W., Phillips, L., Hoad, G., McNeil, C., Ribeiro, A., Haggarty, P.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 11, 943
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Cohort profile for the STratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally (STRADL) study: A depression-focused investigation of Generation Scotland, using detailed clinical, cognitive, and neuroimaging assessments

    Habota, T., Sandu, A., Waiter, G. D., McNeil, C. J., Steele, J. D., Macfarlane, J. A., Whalley, H. C., Valentine, R., Younie, D., Crouch, N., Hawkins, E. L., Hirose, Y., Romaniuk, L., Milburn, K., Buchan, G., Coupar, T., Stirling, M., Baljit, J., MacLennan, B., Priba, L., Harris, M. A., Hafferty, J. D., Adams, M. J., Campbell, A. I., MacIntyre, D. J., Pattie, A., Murphy, L., Reynolds, R. M., Elliot, R., Penton-Voak, I. S., Munafò, M. R., Evans, K. L., Seckl, J. R., Wardlaw, J. M., Lawrie, S. M., Haley, C. S., Porteous, D. J., Deary, I. J., Murray, A. D., McIntosh, A. M.
    Wellcome open research, vol. 4, 185
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Circulating asymmetric dimethylarginine and cognitive decline: A 4‐year follow‐up study of the 1936 Aberdeen Birth Cohort

    Malden, D. E., Mangoni, A. A., Woodman, R. J., Thies, F., McNeil, C., Murray, A. D., Soiza, R. L.
    International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 35, no. 10, pp. 1181-1188
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The impact of brain iron accumulation on cognition: A systematic review

    Spence, H., Waiter, G., McNeil, C.
    PloS ONE, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. e0240697
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Blunted medial prefrontal cortico-limbic reward-related effective connectivity and depression

    Rupprechter, S., Romaniuk, L., Series, P., Hirose, T., Hawkins, E., Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G. D., McNeil, C. J., Shen, X., Harris, M. A., Campbell, A., Porteous, D., Macfarlane, J. A., Lawrie, S. M., Murray, A. D., Delgado, M. R., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C., Steele, J. D.
    Brain, vol. 143, no. 6, pp. 1946-1956
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Aspirin moderates the association between cardiovascular risk, brain white matter hyperintensity total lesion volume and processing speed in normal ageing

    Khezrian, M., Waymont, J. M., Myint, P. K., McNeil, C. J., Whalley, L., Staff, R., Murray, A. D.
    Maturitas, vol. 133, pp. 49-53
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Validation and comparison of two automated methods to quantify brain white matter hyperintensities of presumed vascular origin

    Waymont, J. M. J., Petsa, C., McNeil, C. J., Murray, A. D., Waiter, G. D.
    Journal of International Medical Research, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 1-12
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • An overview of prevalence, determinants and health outcomes of polypharmacy

    Khezrian, M., McNeil, C. J., Murray, A. D., Myint, P. K.
    Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety, vol. 11, pp. 1-10
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • P2-410: A RISK FACTOR PROFILE OF INCREASED WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY BURDEN IN THE ABERDEEN CHILDREN OF THE NINETEEN FIFTIES COHORT

    Waymont, J. M., McNeil, C., Waiter, G., Murray, A.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Differences in brain functional connectivity networks between cognitive decliners and sustainers

    Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G. D., Habota, T., Younie, D. A., McNeil, C. J., McIntosh, A. M., Murray, A. D.
    SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2019
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • The association between polypharmacy and late life deficits in cognitive, physical and emotional capability: a cohort study

    Khezrian, M., McNeil, C. J., Myint, P. K., Murray, A. D.
    International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 251-257
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The Neurobiology of Personal Control During Reward Learning and Its Relationship to Mood

    Romaniuk, L., Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G. D., McNeil, C. J., Xueyi, S., Harris, M. A., Macfarlane, J. A., Lawrie, S. M., Deary, I. J., Murray, A. D., Delgardo, M. R., Steele, J. D., McIntosh, A. M., Whalley, H. C.
    Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 190-199
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Cortical complexity predicts IQ

    Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Habota, T., Waiter, G. D., McNeil, C. J., Hannaford, E., Clark, H., McIntosh, A. M., Murray, A. D.
    SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • Increased diastolic blood pressure is associated with MRI biomarkers of dementia-related brain pathology in normative ageing

    McNeil, C. J., Myint, P. K., Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Potter, J. F., Staff, R., Whalley, L. J., Murray, A. D.
    Age and Ageing, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 95-100
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A Review of Frailty Syndrome and Its Physical, Cognitive and Emotional Domains in the Elderly

    Khezrian, M., Myint, P. K., McNeil, C. J., Murray, A. D.
    Geriatrics, vol. 2, no. 4, 36
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Klotho, APOEε4, cognitive ability, brain size, atrophy and survival: A study in the Aberdeen Birth Cohort of 1936

    de Vries, C. F., Staff, R. T., Harris, S. E., Chapko, D., Williams, D. S., Reichert, P., Ahearn, T., McNeil, C. J., Whalley, L. J., Murray, A. D.
    Neurobiology of Aging, vol. 55, pp. 91-98
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Relationship between IQ at different ages and functional brain connectivity in healthy elders

    Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G. D., Habota, T., McNeil, C. J., McIntosh, A. M., Murray, A. D.
    SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2017
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters

  • Early Brain Development and Cognitive Ageing: A Global Challenge

    Chapko, D., Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., McNeil, C. J., Murray, A. D.
    Neuro Central
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • Sexual dimorphism in changes of cortical complexity associated with cognitive decline in late life

    Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Staff, R., McNeil, C. J., Stringer, M. S., Ahearn, T., Whalley, L., Murray, A. D.
    Alzheimer's Research UK
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • A comparison of measurement methods of hippocampal atrophy rate for predicting Alzheimer's dementia in the Aberdeen Birth Cohort of 1936

    Rana, A. K., Sandu, A., Robertson, K. L., McNeil, C. J., Whalley, L. J., Staff, R. T., Murray, A. D.
    Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, vol. 6, pp. 31-39
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Late-life deficits in cognitive, physical and emotional functions, childhood intelligence and occupational profile: a life-course examination of the Aberdeen 1936 Birth Cohort (ABC1936)

    Chapko, D., Staff, R. T., McNeil, C. J., Whalley, L. J., Black, C., Murray, A. D.
    Age and Ageing, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 486-493
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Whole body and splanchnic amino acid metabolism in sheep during an acute endotoxin challenge

    McNeil, C. J., Hoskin, S. O., Bremner, D. M., Holtrop, G., Lobley, G. E.
    British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 116, no. 2, pp. 211-222
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Brain hyperintensity location determines outcome in the triad of impaired cognition, physical health and depressive symptoms: A cohort study in late life

    Murray, A., McNeil, C., Salarirad, S., Deary, I., Phillips, L., Whalley, L., Staff, R.
    Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, vol. 63, pp. 49-54
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Examining non-syndromic autosomal recessive intellectual disability (NS-ARID) genes for an enriched association with intelligence differences

    Hill, W. D., Davies, G., Liewald, D. C., Payton, A., McNeil, C. J., Whalley, L. J., Horan, M., Ollier, W., Starr, J. M., Pendleton, N., Hansel, N. K., Montgomery, G. W., Medland, S. E., Martin, N. G., Wright, M. J., Bates, T. C., Deary, I. J.
    Intelligence, vol. 54, pp. 80-89
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A longitudinal study of cognitive and hippocampal ageing in late life

    Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Rana, A., Robertson, K. L., Ahearn, T., McNeil, C. J., Staff, R., Murray, A. D.
    British Neuroscience Association, 2015 Festival of Neuroscience
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • Mapping the cortical complexity and cognitive decline in late life

    Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., McNeil, C. J., Stringer, M., Ahearn, T., Whalley, L., Staff, R., Murray, A. D.
    Alzheimer's research UK 2015
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • Regional brain response to visual cues in people with diabetes to foods with high hedonic value is different: results of a pilot study

    Waiter, G., Johnstone, A., Stephen, S., McNeil, C., Murray, A., Murray, L., Philip, S.
    Diabetes UK Professional Conference, pp. 42
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Nutritional B vitamin deficiency alters the expression of key proteins associated with vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration in the aorta of atherosclerotic apolipoprotein E null mice

    Duthie, S. J., Beattie, J. H., Gordon, M., Pirie, L. P., Nicol, F., Reid, M. D., Duncan, G. J., Cantlay, L., Horgan, G., McNeil, C. J.
    Genes & Nutrition, vol. 10, no. 1, 446
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A longitudinal study of human brain complexity and cognitive decline in ageing

    Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Staff, R., McNeil, C. J., Mustafa, N., Ahearn, T., Whalley, L., Murray, A. D.
    Organization of Human Brain Mapping meeting (OHBM)
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts

  • Early Life Socioeconomic Circumstance and Late Life Brain Hyperintensities: A Population Based Cohort Study

    Murray, A. D., McNeil, C. J., Salarirad, S., Whalley, L. J., Staff, R. T.
    PloS ONE, vol. 9, no. 2, e88969
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Depressive symptoms in late life and cerebrovascular disease: the importance of intelligence and lesion location

    Murray, A. D., Staff, R. T., McNeil, C. J., Salarirad, S., Phillips, L. H., Starr, J., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L. J.
    Depression and Anxiety, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 77-84
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Nutritional B vitamin deficiency disrupts lipid metabolism causing accumulation of proatherogenic lipoproteins in the aorta adventitia of ApoE null mice

    McNeil, C. J., Beattie, J. H., Gordon, M., Pirie, L. P., Duthie, S. J.
    Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 1122-1130
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Brain lesions, hypertension and cognitive aging in the 1921 and 1936 Aberdeen birth cohorts

    Murray, A. D., Staff, R. T., McNeil, C. J., Salarirad, S., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J., Whalley, L. J.
    Age, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 451-459
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The balance between cognitive reserve and brain imaging biomarkers of cerebrovascular and Alzheimer's diseases

    Murray, A. D., Staff, R. T., McNeil, C. J., Salarirad, S., Ahearn, T. S., Mustafa, N., Whalley, L. J.
    Brain, vol. 134, no. 12, pp. 3687-3696
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Differential effects of nutritional folic acid deficiency and moderate hyperhomocysteinemia on aortic plaque formation and genome-wide DNA methylation in vascular tissue from ApoE -/- mice

    McNeil, C. J., Beattie, J. H., Gordon, M. .., Pirie, L. P., Duthie, S. J.
    Clinical Epigenetics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 361-368
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Maternal diets deficient in folic acid and related methyl donors modify mechanisms associated with lipid metabolism in the fetal liver of the rat

    McNeil, C. J., Hay, S. M., Rucklidge, G. J., Reid, M. D., Duncan, G. J., Rees, W. D.
    British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 102, no. 10, pp. 1445-1452
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Gene and protein expression profiles in the foetal liver of the pregnant rat fed a low protein diet

    McNeil, C. J., Hay, S. M., Rucklidge, G. J., Reid, M. D., Duncan, G. J., Rees, W. D.
    Genes & Nutrition, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 189-194
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Disruption of lipid metabolism in the liver of the pregnant rat fed folate-deficient and methyl donor-deficient diets

    McNeil, C. J., Hay, S., Rucklidge, G. J., Reid, M. D., Duncan, G. J., Maloney, C. A., Rees, W.
    British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 262-271
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Within-litter variation in pig conceptus size and cortisol status on days 20–24

    McNeil, C. J., Jones, H. N., McArdle, H. J., Page, K. R., Ashworth, C. J.
    Reproduction in Domestic Animals, vol. 42, no. S2, pp. 76
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Glucocorticoid exposure and tissue gene expression of 11beta HSD-1, 11beta HSD-2 and glucocorticoid receptor in a porcine model of differential fetal growth

    McNeil, C. J., Nwagwu, M. O., Finch, A. M., Page, K. R., Thain, A., McArdle, H. J., Ashworth, C. J.
    Reproduction, vol. 133, no. 3, pp. 653-661
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The effect of fetal pig size and stage of gestation on tissue fatty acid metabolism and profile

    McNeil, C. J., Finch, A. M., Page, K. R., Clarke, S. D., Ashworth, C. J., McArdle, H. J.
    Reproduction, vol. 129, pp. 757-763
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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