Staff Profile
Nicola Barnett
Senior Manager BRAINS for Dementia Research
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 0191 208 2109
- Fax: +44 (0) 191 208 1301
- Personal Website: www.brainsfordementiaresearch.org.uk/
- Address: Brains for Dementia Research Coordinating Centre
Room EG02, Edwardson Building
Institute of Neuroscience
Newcastle University
Campus for Ageing and Vitality
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 5PL
Background
Nicola Barnett is a Research Nurse, Study Coordinator and Senior Manager at Brains for Dementia Research Coordinating Centre and University of Newcastle.
Areas of expertise: Ageing, Project Management
Qualifications:
- MSc. Health Psychology, Teesside University
- R.N. Dip HE, Northumbria University
- P.G.C.E., Newcastle University
- BSc. (Hons) Psychology, Lancaster University
Brains for Dementia Research Coordinating Centre email: [email protected]
Publications
- Taylor JP, Firbank MJ, He JB, Barnett N, Pearce S, Livingstone A, Vuong Q, McKeith IG, O'Brien JT. Visual cortex in dementia with Lewy bodies: magnetic resonance imaging study. British Journal of Psychiatry 2012, 200(6), 491-498.
- Taylor JP, Firbank M, Barnett N, Pearce S, Livingstone A, Mosimann U, Eyre JA, McKeith IG, O'Brien JT. Visual hallucinations in dementia with Lewy bodies: transcranial magnetic stimulation study. British Journal of Psychiatry 2011, 199(6), 492-500.
- Lloyd AJ, McGuckin EA, Barnett NA, Gholkar A, McKeith IG, Young AH, Ferrier IN, O'Brien JT. Increased salivary cortisol in late- but not early-onset depression: Relationship with hippocampal volume. In: Journal of Psychopharmacology: Summer Meeting of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. 2002, Harrogate: Sage Publications Ltd.
- Donaghy PC, Firbank MJ, Thomas AJ, Lloyd J, Petrides G, Barnett N, Olsen K, O'Brien JT. Clinical and imaging correlates of amyloid deposition in dementia with Lewy bodies. Movement Disorders 2018, 33(7), 1130-1138.
- Thomas A, Donaghy P, Roberts G, Colloby SJ, Barnett NA, Petrides G, Lloyd J, Olsen K, Taylor J-P, McKeith I, O'Brien JT. Diagnostic Accuracy of Dopaminergic Imaging in Prodromal Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Psychological Medicine 2019, 49(3), 396-402.
- Donaghy PC, Taylor JP, O'Brien JT, Barnett N, Olsen K, Colloby SJ, Lloyd J, Petrides G, McKeith IG, Thomas AJ. Neuropsychiatric symptoms and cognitive profile in mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies. Psychological Medicine 2018, 48(14), 2384-2390.
- King E, O'Brien JT, Donaghy P, Morris C, Barnett N, Olsen K, Martin-Ruiz C, Taylor J-P, Thomas AJ. Peripheral inflammation in prodromal Alzheimer’s and Lewy body dementias. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2018, 89(4), 339-345.
- Donaghy PC, Barnett N, Olsen K, Taylor J-P, McKeith IG, O'Brien JT, Thomas AJ. Symptoms associated with Lewy body disease in mild cognitive impairment. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2017, 32(11), 1163-1171.
- Firbank MJ, Lloyd JJ, Williams ED, Barber R, Colloby SJ, Barnett NA, Olsen K, Davison C, Donaldson C, Herholz K, O'Brien JT. An evidence based algorithm for the utility of FDG-PET for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease according to presence of medial temporal lobe atrophy. British Journal of Psychiatry 2016, 208(5), 491-496.
- Bamford C, Olsen K, Davison C, Barnett N, Lloyd J, Williams D, Firbank M, Mason H, Donaldson C, O'Brien J. Is there a preference for PET or SPECT brain imaging in diagnosing dementia? The views of people with dementia, carers, and healthy controls. International Psychogeriatrics 2016, 28(1), 123-131.
- O'Brien JT, Firbank MJ, Davison C, Barnett N, Bamford C, Donaldson C, Olsen K, Herholz K, Williams D, Lloyd J. 18F-FDG PET and Perfusion SPECT in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer and Lewy Body Dementias. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2014, 55(12), 1959-1965.