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Prime Minister Highlights New Grant
The Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Health have highlighted our new grant with technology companies IXICO and Cambridge Cognition aimed at rolling out our pioneering early Alzheimer diagnosis work - link and link.
Financial Times Innovation in the NHS Item - 8th December 2011
The Financial Times has featured our work in a video item on the need for innovation in the NHS
Automated MRI Alzheimer Disease Detection System Highly Commended - 15th November 2011
Our work on automated detection of patterns of Alzheimer's disease was given a Highly Commended award, winning second place of more than 100 projects in the Health Service journal awards "Improving Care with Technology" category tonight.
National Institute for Health Research highlights - 30th September 2011
The NIHR has highlighted our work as one of the key NIHR achievements in 2010/11 (page 8, "Brain scans to spot the early signs of Alzheimer's disease")
Reasons to be Cheerful - 18th September 2011
The UK Observer newspaper has identified the work on early diagnosis and intervention for Alzheimer's disease at KCL as one of twenty reasons to be cheerful about the UK (number 8)
Research Shortlisted for Health Service Journal Award - 7th September 2011
Our work on automated detection of patterns of Alzheimer disease using structural MRI in clinical patients has been shortlisted for a Health Service Journal award in the "Improving Care with Technology"category (South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust)
Biomedical Research Centre and Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia Funded - 18th August 2011
The Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health has been refunded with an increased budget and a new £4.5million Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia funded.
Science in Parliament - 3rd May 2011
We have published an article on MRI in the UK's parliamentary science journal - Science in Parliament as part of a short series on Medical Physics in the UK. (A Simmons, Magnetic resonance imaging – a window into the body for patient care and a research tool for understanding the brain, Science in Parliament, 68(1), 26-27, 2011)
Research interests
Functional MRI, structural and volumetric MRI, diffusion MRI, MRS, genetics-imaging correlates, image processing and e-learning.
Research interests (short)
Functional, structural, volumetric and diffusion MRI; MRS; genetics-imaging correlates; Image processing; e-learning.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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You read my mind: fMRI markers of threatening appraisals in people with persistent psychotic experiences
Underwood, R., Mason, L., O'Daly, O., Dalton, J., Simmons, A., Barker, G. J., Peters, E. & Kumari, V., Dec 2021, In: NPJ SCHIZOPHRENIA. 7, 1, 49.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Association of blood-based transcriptional risk scores with biomarkers for Alzheimer disease
AddNeuroMed consortium and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Dec 2020, In: Neurology: Genetics. 6, 6, e517.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access11 Citations (Scopus) -
Dysregulated Fc gamma receptor–mediated phagocytosis pathway in Alzheimer's disease: network-based gene expression analysis
AddNeuroMed consortium and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Apr 2020, In: Neurobiology of Aging. 88, p. 24-32 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
24 Citations (Scopus) -
Exposure to food in anorexia nervosa and brain correlates of food-related anxiety: findings from a pilot study
Young, K. S., Rennalls, S. J., Leppanen, J., Mataix-Cols, D., Simmons, A., Suda, M., Campbell, I. C., O'Daly, O. & Cardi, V., 1 Sept 2020, In: Journal of Affective Disorders. 274, p. 1068-1075 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
10 Citations (Scopus) -
Genome-wide transcriptome analysis identifies novel dysregulated genes implicated in Alzheimer's pathology
Nho, K., Nudelman, K., Allen, M., Hodges, A., Kim, S., Risacher, S. L., Apostolova, L. G., Lin, K., Lunnon, K., Wang, X., Burgess, J. D., Ertekin-Taner, N., Petersen, R. C., Wang, L., Qi, Z., He, A., Neuhaus, I., Patel, V., Foroud, T., Faber, K. M., & 4 others, 1 Sept 2020, In: Alzheimer's and Dementia. 16, 9, p. 1213-1223 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
27 Citations (Scopus)
Projects
- 31 Finished
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Differential diagnosis and progression assessment of dementia using large-scale machine learning
Aljabar, P., Hammers, A., Howard, R. & Simmons, A.
1/01/2014 → 31/12/2017
Project: Research
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Clinical value of automated hippocampal measures for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease : a randomised controlled trial
Costafreda-Gonzalez, S. & Simmons, A.
1/10/2013 → 30/09/2016
Project: Research
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Imaging neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease using the novel TSPO tracer [11C] PBR 28
Reeves, S., Howard, R., Simmons, A. & Turkheimer, F.
1/09/2013 → 31/08/2014
Project: Research
Prizes
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Fellow of Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
Simmons, Andy (Recipient), 2008
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively