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| Current Research Grants Januray 2008-December 2010 Motor Neurone Disease Association Abrahams, S. and Bak, T. Duration 36 months. The heterogeneity of cognitive impairment in Motor Neurone Disease. Amount £69614 September 2008-August 2011 Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association Bak, T. & Abrahams, S. Duration 36 months. The nature of speech production deficits in motor neurone disease. Amount £63,014 January 2009-December 2011 Sylvia Aitken Charitable Trust Abrahams, S. Bak, T., Bastin, M., Gillingwater, T., Smith, C. Duration 36 months. Cognitive and Behaviour Change in MND: Understanding Brain Dysfunction. Amount £100,000 Starting 2009 “The nature of speech deficits in MND”, PhD studentship, Scottish MND Association, £ 63 014 (PI) Starting 2009 “Cognitive and Behaviour Change: Understanding Brain Mechanisms”, Silvia Aitken Charitable Trust (Co-applicant, PI S. Abrahams) £ 100 000 2007 - 2010 “The heterogeneity of cognitive impairment in Motor Neuron Disease”; PhD studentship – MND Association, £ 69 220 (Joint PI with S. Abrahams) Integrated image data storage and processing facilities to support research in clinical neuroscience - equipment grant: Five year IT grant funded by the Wellcome trust (£416,427) (first applicant: Ian Marshall), starting: September 2005. PhD programme in “Cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology”. Three year programme funded by the Ministero Italiano dell’Industria, Universita’ e Ricerca (MIUR) – in collaboration with the universities of Naples and Trieste (196,000 Euros), starting March 15th, 2006. Unawareness of language disorders following brain damage. Two yeas award funded by the Wellcome Trust (£96,822), in collaboration with Goldsmith College (G. Cocchini), starting January 2nd 2007. Remembering under conditions of reduced interference: An investigation into the role and nature of retroactive interference in the severe forgetting in patients with mild cognitive impairment. – Three year post-doctoral fellowship for Michaela Dewar awarded by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust (£128,754), starting February 1st 2007. Dual-task impairment in Alzheimer Disease: An investigation on specificity and development of a clinical tool. – Two year project grant awarded by the Alzheimer’s Society (co-applicants: RH Logie and J Starr), £95,104, starting October 2007. Editorship of Cortex – 2008-2010, funded by Elsevier (125,268 Euro). Adjunt Professorship – University of Western Australia, Perth (2008-2010), AU$30,000. Investigation of the preclinical phase of AD: identification of early cognitive markers (Estudio de la fase preclinica de la enfermedad de Alzheimer: busqueda de marcadores cognitivos tempranos) – Three years project (2008-2010) funded by Colciencias (Columbia government granting body) with Mario Parra (and Francisco Lopera, University of Antioquia, as Columbian partner): 328,733,000 Columbian Pesos (aprox. £81,500), quota to Edinburgh 101,000,000 Pesos (aprox. £24,500). Two PhD studentships in “Cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology”. Three year programme funded by the Campania Region and the Suor Orsola Foundation – in collaboration with the universities of Naples and Trieste (98,000 Euros), starting October, 2008. Engineering and Physical Sciences Council. BabyTalk: Generating Textual Summaries of Clinical Temporal Data. (with Hunter, Freer, McIntosh, Reiter, Sripada). Award numbers EP/D049520/1 and EP/D05057X/1. 2006-2010 Click here The Alzheimer Society. Dual task impairment in Alzheimer Disease: An investigation on specificity and development of a clinical tool. (with Della Sala and Starr). 2007-2009 Click here Cross Council funded Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. Centre Director is Professor Ian Deary. Logie is group leader for Human Cognitive Ageing. 2008-2013 Click here The Leverhulme Trust. Multitasking: An experimental study of the complexities of everyday cognition. (With Law). 2008- 2010 Click here How do you know what others feel? A psychophysiological study of social cognition and aging (with Hunter, E. M., Phillips, L. H). Two year grant funded by the Bial Foundation (37,000 Euros), starting January 2009. £20,000 ( This page is maintained by Joanna.Brooks@ed.ac.uk |
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