Blackburn, Daniel, Dr

Dr Daniel Blackburn

BSc, MBChB, MRCP, PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

Senior Lecturer

Honorary Consultant Neurologist

d.blackburn@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 9101

��«Ӱҵ Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN)

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Dr Daniel Blackburn
School of Medicine and Population Health
��«Ӱҵ Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN)
385a Glossop Road
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Profile

I completed my undergraduate medical degree in Liverpool in 1998 and did my medical training in London. I have worked as a neurology SpR in Singapore and Nottingham prior to joining the University of ��«Ӱҵ as a PhD student in 2005.

I worked as a clinical lecturer in Neurology from 2010-2013.I have been a senior lecturer since 2018. My main subspecialty interest is in dementia.

Research interests

My research interests are into developing non-invasive scalable diagnostic tests for early dementia or cognitive impairment. I am investigating novel mechanisms of diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, post-stroke dementia and other dementias using automated assessment of language & electroencephalography (EEG).

I co-lead the development of CognoSpeak^TM() with Heidi Christensen from UoS Department of Computer Science (/dcs). This is an automated assessment of Cognition that can be undertaken in people’s own homes. We have several on-going grants to develop this for use in Memory Assessment Pathways (MAP) and in the post-stroke population

I am working on novel resting state EEG processing approach to detect cognitive impairment.

I am investigating the utility of telematics to assess driving safety.

I also have a research interest in the role of astrocytes in neurodegeneration. My PhD investigated this in MND and I am part of a team investigating an in-vitro model of sporadic AD using inducible Neural Precursor Technology to grow astrocytes and neurones from people with sporadic AD and assay metabolic markers.

Current Projects

PI: University of ��«Ӱҵ, Participatory Research. Feb-July 2023. Co-evaluation of partnership working to develop AI dementia detection health technology. £14,030

PI:INIHR i4i grant. CognoSpeak: a Cognitive Health Assessment Tool (CcHAT). £1.47��. 36 months. Start date 01.02.2022

COEN6011: Investigating neuronal hyperactivity as a link between amyloid-β and tau spreading in Alzheimer’s disease (NeurActAmy) Submitted Dec 2022- Successful

KE Funding application, £22,904 of EPSRC funding awarded to support project: ‘Establishing medical device regulatory appropriate software development at TUoS: Establish and trial an eQMS solution for CognoSpeak (CognoSpeak-eQMS)’. Dec 2022-June 2023.

Alzheimer Research UK Local Network grant, Investigating Barriers to Accessing Memory Pathways for people from South Asian background and exploring acceptability of CognoSpeak (automated cognitive assessment tool). Hina Khan, Dr Gregor Russell and Iftikhar Khan (Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust) & Dr Daniel Blackburn £5000. March 2023- Feb 2024

NIHR HSDR: Improving triadic decision making involving people with dementia. Led by Traci Walker (co-applicants Markus Reuber, Simon Bell, Alistair Wardrope). Start date 01.10.2022- 30.09.202. £525,092.89.

NIHR Three Schools: Dementia Research Programme. Improving the lives of people living with dementia and carers 2021-2024. Dementia Career Development Awards: Establishing a dementia related research career and writing a research funding proposal focused on developing a complex intervention to support the wellbeing of people with mild cognitive impairment, using a public health approach. Start date 01.06.2022- 31.06.2023; £36,145

Equal, diverse and inclusive primary care research delivery (EDI-PCR delivery). Jon Dickson, Professor Liddy Goyder, Professor Adewale Adebajo MBE, Jodie Keyworth, Dr Dan Blackburn, Steve Knight, Professor Simon Heller, Dr Dipak Patel, Professor Chris Newman, Karen French, Ian Baxter. Start date March 2022- End date July 2022. £30��

UKRI ISCF Healthy Ageing Catalyst Award 2020; Understanding elderly drivers' behaviour and fitness to drive. £62,500

Rosetrees Charity INTERDISCIPLINARY PRIZE 2019
MEDICINE WITH MATHEMATICS / COMPUTING / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPutational Assessment of Stroke Survivors (COMPASS) £250,000 (co-funded with Knowledge Exchange,(UoS), Clinical Research Network Yorkshire & Humber,

Health & Care Partnership, ��«Ӱҵ. Remote monitoring people with Mild Cognitive Impairment using combined technology of the Digital Doctor and ViVA £24,774 2019-2021.

Health Education England/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme Internship Scheme 2019/20. £8000. Zoe Unwin, EEG physiologist.

Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) Pump Priming Award Notification (£7,000), 2018. Investigating potential of QEEG and digital doctor in memory assessment pathways in Kenya

Medical Research Council Confidence in Concept. COCOA (COmputerised Cognitive Assessment) – proof-of-concept. 2018-19. £49,513

4wardNorth Wellcome Academy PhD Training Fellowship to fund Dr Simon Bell’s PhD project- Characterising astrocyte metabolic deficits in sporadic and familial AD to identify new therapeutic targets. 2018-2020.

Neuroscience Research fund- Ryder Briggs (£32,000) March 2017-19. Developing qEEG as biomarker in fronto-temporal dementia.

ARUK: ARUK-PPG2018A-009: Neutrophil derived microvesicles: linking systemic inflammation and dementia. PI Julie Simpson. 2018-19.

Neuroscience small grant from ��«Ӱҵ teaching Hospital’s- to fund Academic Clinical Fellow Ronan O’Malley develop the Avatar project to analyse semantic and letter fluency using Automatic Speech Recognition- 2018. (£3200)

Alzheimer research UK Preparatory Clinical Research Fellowship (ARUK-PCRF2016A-1: £69998- Jan 2016). Creating an Astrocyte model of Alzheimer’s disease using induced Neural Progenitor Cell Technology PI is Simon Bell who is my academic clinical fellow I am supervising. Collaboration with Professor Stephen Wharton, Drs Laura Ferraiuolo and Heather Mortiboys.

NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme. 14/140/80 Journeying through dementia; randomised controlled trial of clinical and cost effectiveness. 2015-2019. (£2,017,925). Collaboration with ScHARR and ��«Ӱҵ Health and Social Care Trust

NIHR Research Design Service Yorkshire and Humber (RDS YH) public involvement in grant application to develop Public and patient acceptability and co-design input on the Avatar project (£480) 2018.

Medical Research Council Proximity to Discovery (MRC P2D: £4,988). Development of a novel biomarker for dementia diagnosis based on quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG). 2015-2016. Collaboration between neurophysiology and a commercial partner the BlackBox Toolkit company

Alzheimer’s Research United Kingdom (ARUK-PPG20114B-25) 2014-2016 (£29,805). Plus Yorkshire branch of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust Network. 2015 (£4000). Both ARUK grants are for ‘Developing a new biomarker for the early diagnosis of dementia; a novel non-linear signal processing approach using resting state EEG’

NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme: PB-PG-0211-24079 – Using Conversation Analysis in the Differential Diagnosis of Memory Problems: a pilot study. 2013-2015. (£230,000).

Publications

Journal articles

Windeatt-Harrison IL, Walker T, Bell SM, Blackburn D, Dickson JM, Jones S, Wardrope A & Reuber M (2024) . Research on Language and Social Interaction, 57(4), 399-416.
Manzoni C, Kia DA, Ferrari R, Leonenko G, Costa B, Saba V, Jabbari E, Tan MMX, Albani D, Alvarez V , Alvarez I et al (2024) . The American Journal of Human Genetics.
Mirheidari B, Bell SM, Harkness K, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2024) . Language and Health.
Cao J, Yang L, Sarrigiannis PG, Blackburn D & Zhao Y (2024) . Computers in Biology and Medicine, 168, 107701-107701.
Blackburn DJ, Bell SM, Harkness K, O'Malley R, Chapman L, Lunn I, Mirheidari B & Christensen H (2023) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19(S14).
Blackburn DJ, Sproson L, Egbuta C, Bell SM, O'Malley R, Mirheidari B, Pevy N & Christensen H (2023) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19(S20).
Bell SM, Wareing H, Hamshaw A, De S, New E, Shaw P, De Marco M, Venneri A, Blackburn DJ, Ferraiuolo L & Mortiboys H (2023) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19(S13).
Walker G, Walker T, O'Malley R, Mirheidari B, Christensen H, Reuber M & Blackburn D (2023) . Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 14(3), 408-429.
Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis P (2023) . IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng, PP.
Walker G, Pevy N, O'Malley R, Mirheidari B, Reuber M, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2023) . Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics.
Marco MD, Blackburn DJ, O'Malley R & Venneri A (2023) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19(S4).
Gunawardena R, Sarrigiannis PG, Blackburn DJ & He F (2023) . Neuroscience.
Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis PG (2023) . Neuroscience, 521, 77-88.
Mummery CJ, Börjesson-Hanson A, Blackburn DJ, Vijverberg EGB, De Deyn PP, Ducharme S, Jonsson M, Schneider A, Rinne JO, Ludolph AC , Bodenschatz R et al (2023) . Nature Medicine, 1-11.
Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis P (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 30, 2651-2660.
Bell S, Harkness K, Roman M, Gardner J, Richards E, Howe J, Sikaonga M, Mirheidari B, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2022) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 93(9), e2.246-e2.246.
Cao J, Zhao Y, Shan X, Blackburn D, Wei J, Erkoyuncu JA, Chen L & Sarrigiannis PG (2022) . Journal of Neural Engineering, 19(4), 046034-046034.
Sproson L, Mills N, Pryde L, Adebajo A, Coyle D, Preston J, Blackburn D, Christensen H & Lanfranchi V (2022) . Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology.
Manca R, De Marco M, Colston A, Raymont V, Amin J, Davies R, Kumar P, Russell G, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A (2022) . Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13.
Manca R, De Marco M, Blackburn DJ, Russell G, Evans K, Kirkland S, Amin J, Davies L, Firth C, Raymont V , Colston A et al (2021) . Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 17(S7).
Brewer E, Mirheidari B, O'Malley R, Reuber M, Christensen H & Blackburn DJ (2021) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 17(S5).
Klepl D, He F, Wu M, De Marco M, Blackburn D & Sarrigiannis PG (2021) . IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
Ball HA, McWhirter L, Ballard C, Bhome R, Blackburn DJ, Edwards MJ, Fox NC, Howard R, Huntley J, Isaacs JD , Larner AJ et al (2021) . Brain.
De Marco M, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A (2021) . Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 13.
Mubarak Mohamed AS, Iqbal A, Prasad S, Hoggard N & Blackburn D (2021) . Practical Neurology, 21(4), 351-353.
Beavis L, O'Malley R, Mirheidari B, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2021) How can automated linguistic analysis help to discern functional cognitive disorder from healthy controls and mild cognitive impairment?. BJPsych open, 7(Suppl 1), S7-S7.
Beavis L, O'Malley R, Mirheidari B, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2021) . BJPsych Open, 7(S1), S7-S7.
Cao J, Grajcar K, Shan X, Zhao Y, Zou J, Chen L, Li Z, Grunewald R, Zis P, De Marco M , Unwin Z et al (2021) . Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 67.
Bell SM, Barnes K, De Marco M, Shaw PJ, Ferraiuolo L, Blackburn DJ, Venneri A & Mortiboys H (2021) . Biomedicines, 9(1).
Courtney E, Blackburn D & Reuber M (2021) . Patient Education and Counseling.
O'Malley RPD, Mirheidari B, Harkness K, Reuber M, Venneri A, Walker T, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2021) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 92(1), 12-15.
De Marco M, Manca R, Kirby J, Hautbergue G, Blackburn DJ, Wharton S & Venneri A (2020) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16(S4).
Bell SM, De Marco M, Barnes K, Shaw P, Ferraiuolo L, Blackburn DJ, Mortiboys H & Venneri A (2020) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16(S6).
O'Malley R, Walker T, Mirheidari B, Christensen H, Reuber M, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A (2020) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16(S6).
De Marco M, Manca R, Kirby J, Hautbergue GM, Blackburn DJ, Wharton SB & Venneri A (2020) . Current Alzheimer Research, 17.
Costa B, Manzoni C, Bernal-Quiros M, Kia DA, Aguilar M, Alvarez I, Alvarez V, Andreassen O, Anfossi M, Bagnoli S , Benussi L et al (2020) . Neurology, 95(24), e3288-e3302.
Saxon JA, Thompson JC, Harris JM, Ealing J, Hamdalla H, Chaouch A, Young C, Blackburn D, Majeed T, Gall C , Richardson AMT et al (2020) . Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration.
Ball HA, McWhirter L, Ballard C, Bhome R, Blackburn DJ, Edwards MJ, Fleming SM, Fox NC, Howard R, Huntley J , Isaacs JD et al (2020) . Brain.
O’Malley R, Morris L-A, Longden C, Turner A, Walker T, Venneri A, Mirheidari B, Christensen H, Reuber M & Blackburn D (2020) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 91(8), e18.2-e19.
Walker G, Morris L-A, Christensen H, Mirheidari B, Reuber M & Blackburn DJ (2020) . Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics.
Littlejohn J, Blackburn D & Venneri A (2020) . Neurological Sciences.
Goldstein LH, Robinson EJ, Mellers JDC, Stone J, Carson A, Reuber M, Medford N, McCrone P, Murray J, Richardson MP , Pilecka I et al (2020) . The Lancet Psychiatry, 7(6), 491-505.
Bell SM, De Marco M, Barnes K, Shaw PJ, Ferraiuolo L, Blackburn DJ, Mortiboys H & Venneri A (2020) . Journal of Personalized Medicine, 10(2).
Bell S, De Marco M, Barnes K, Shaw P, Ferraiuolo L, Blackburn D, Mortiboys H & Venneri A (2020) . Neurology, 94(15_supplement).
O’Malley R, Mirheidari B, Harkness K, Walker T, Reuber M, Venneri A, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2020) . Neurology, 94(15_supplement).
O’Malley R, Romanovsky C, Venneri A & Blackburn D (2019) . Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 90(12), a21.
Cheesman A, Blackburn D, Carroll C, Cohen A, Coebergh J, Sokhi D, Wong SH & Woolmore J (2019) . Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 90(12), a2.
Sarrigiannis PG, Zis P, Unwin ZC, Blackburn DJ, Hoggard N, Zhao Y, Billings SA, Khan AA, Yianni J & Hadjivassiliou M (2019) . Cerebellum & Ataxias, 6(5).
O’Malley R, Mirhedari B, Harkness K, Reuber M, Venneri A, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2019) . Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 90(12).
O’Malley R, Brook E, Lewis A, Sonksen I, Mirhedari B, Venneri A, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2019) . Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 90(12).
Zhao Y, Zhao Y, Durongbhan P, Chen L, Liu J, Billings SA, Zis P, Unwin ZC, De Marco M, Venneri A , Blackburn DJ et al (2019) . IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
Goldstein LH, Robinson EJ, Reuber M, Chalder T, Callaghan H, Eastwood C, Landau S, McCrone P, Medford N, Mellers JDC , Moore M et al (2019) . Epilepsia, 60(11), 2182-2193.
Jones SA, De Marco M, Manca R, Bell SM, Blackburn DJ, Wilkinson ID, Soininen H & Venneri A (2019) . Cortex, 119, 100-110.
Mullin E, Aristotelidou V, Blackburn D, Jenkins T & Hadjivassiliou M (2019) . Postgraduate Medicine, 131(7), 546-549.
Al-Hameed S, Benaissa M, Christensen H, Mirheidari B, Blackburn D & Reuber M (2019) . PLoS ONE, 14(5).
Durongbhan P, Zhao Y, Chen L, Zis P, De Marco M, Unwin ZC, Venneri A, He X, Li S, Zhao Y , Blackburn DJ et al (2019) . IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.
Zis P, Shafique F, Hadjivassiliou M, Blackburn D, Venneri A, Iliodromiti S, Mitsikostas DD & Sarrigiannis PG (2019) . Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface.
Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Walker T, Reuber M & Christensen H (2019) . Computer Speech and Language, 53, 65-79.
Bell SM, Barnes K, Clemmens H, Al-Rafiah AR, Al-ofi EA, Leech V, Bandmann O, Shaw PJ, Blackburn DJ, Ferraiuolo L & Mortiboys H (2018) . Journal of Molecular Biology, 430(21), 3942-3953.
Lee-Harris G, Blackburn D, Timmers R & Humberstone N (2018) . Journal of Music Therapy, 55(4), 439-462.
Walker T, Christensen H, Mirheidari B, Swainston T, Rutten C, Mayer I, Blackburn D & Reuber M (2018) . Dementia.
Alexander M, Blackburn D & Reuber M (2018) . Sociology of Health and Illness.
Blackburn DJ, Zhao Y, De Marco M, Bell SM, He F, Wei H, Lawrence S, Unwin ZC, Blyth M, Angel J , Baster K et al (2018) . Brain Sciences, 8(7), 134-134.
Meineke J, Wenzel F, De Marco M, Venneri A, Blackburn DJ, Teh K, Wilkinson ID & Katscher U (2018) . Physics in Medicine and Biology, 63(14), 14nt01-14nt01.
Reuber M, Blackburn DJ, Elsey C, Wakefield S, Ardern KA, Harkness K, Venneri A, Jones D, Shaw C & Drew P (2018) . Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 32(3), 197-206.
Blackburn DJ, Forbes M, Unwin Z, Hoggard N, Hadjivassiliou M & Sarrigiannis PG (2018) . Clinical Neurophysiology, 129(7), 1372-1373.
Bailey C, Poole N & Blackburn DJ (2018) . British Journal of General Practice, 68(667), e123-e138.
Skrobot OA, Black SE, Chen C, DeCarli C, Erkinjuntti T, Ford GA, Kalaria RN, O'Brien J, Pantoni L, Pasquier F , Roman GC et al (2018) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 14(3), 280-292.
Blackburn D, Mirheidari BM, Rutten C, Mayer I, Walker T, Christensen H & Rueber M (2017) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 88(Suppl 1), A19.4-A20.
O’Malley R, Igra M, Romanowski C, Sarrigiannis P & Blackburn D (2017) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 88(Suppl 1), A17.1-A17.
Wakefield SJ, Blackburn DJ, Harkness K, Khan A, Reuber M & Venneri A (2017) . Acta Neuropsychiatrica.
Bell SM, Clemmens H, Blackburn DJ, Bandmann O, Ferraiuolo L & Mortiboys H (2017) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 13(7S_Part_26), P1269-P1269.
Littlejohn JL, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A (2017) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 13(7S_Part_21), P1042-P1043.
Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Harkness K, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2017) . Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 58(2), 373-387.
Bailey C, Bell SM & Blackburn DM (2017) . Psychogeriatrics.
Bath PM, Scutt P, Blackburn DJ, Ankolekar S, Krishnan K, Ballard C, Burns A, Mant J, Passmore P, Pocock S , Reckless J et al (2017) . PLOS ONE, 12(1).
Skrobot OA, O'Brien J, Black S, Chen C, DeCarli C, Erkinjuntti T, Ford GA, Kalaria RN, Pantoni L, Pasquier F , Roman GC et al (2017) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 13(6), 624-633.
Bell SM, Maniam R, Patel A, Harkness K & Blackburn D (2017) . Psychogeriatrics, 17(2), 146-146.
Littlejohn JL, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A (2016) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 12, P753-P754.
Blackburn DJ, Elsey C, Wakefield S, Harkness K, Venneri A, Drew P & Reuber M (2016) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 12, P691-P691.
Michel L, Blackburn DJ & Donckier J (2016) Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Subjects Who Were Children at the time of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident: Some Lessons for The Management of Fukushima’s Aftermaths. Jacobs Journal of Radiation Oncology, 3(2).
Lewis R, Jenkins T, Wharton S, Lorenz E, Rao G, Stevens R, Hadjivassiliou M & Blackburn D (2016) . Practical Neurology, 16(2), 153-156.
Jones D, Drew P, Elsey C, Blackburn D, Wakefield S, Harkness K & Reuber M (2016) . Aging and Mental Health, 20(5), 500-509.
Sprange K, Mountain GA, Shortland K, Craig C, Blackburn DJ, Bowie P, Harkness K & Spencer M (2015) . Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 1.
Baker DJ, Blackburn DJ, Keatinge M, Sokhi D, Viskaitis P, Heath PR, Ferraiuolo L, Kirby J & Shaw PJ (2015) . FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE, 9.
Stone J, Pal S, Blackburn D, Reuber M, Thekkumpurath P & Carson A (2015) . Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 48(s1), S5-S17.
Elsey C, Drew P, Jones D, Blackburn D, Wakefield S, Harkness K, Venneri A & Reuber M (2015) . Patient Education and Counseling, 98(9), 1071-1077.
Coates R, Bell SM, Coley S & Blackburn DJ (2015) . Practical Neurology, 15(2), 124-126.
Bell S, Harkness K, Dickson JM & Blackburn D (2015) . Age and Ageing, 44(2), 344-345.
Scutt P, Blackburn D, Krishnan K, Ballard C, Burns A, Ford GA, Mant J, Passmore P, Pocock S, Reckless J , Sprigg N et al (2015) . Trials, 16.
Blackburn DJ (2014) . Age and Ageing, 43(eLetters Supplement).
Blackburn DJ, Wakefield S, Shanks MF, Harkness K, Reuber M & Venneri A (2014) . British Medical Bulletin, 112(1), 71-81.
Wakefield SJ, Blackburn D, Harkness K, Khan A, Reuber M & Venneri A (2014) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 10, P721-P721.
Blackburn DJ, Krishnan K, Fox L, Ballard C, Burns A, Ford GA, Mant J, Passmore P, Pocock S, Reckless J , Sprigg N et al (2013) . Trials, 14.
Blackburn D, Wakefield S, Walpole P, Harkness K, Reuber M & Venneri A (2013) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 9, P493-P493.
Khan K, Wakefield S, Blackburn D & Venneri A (2013) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, 9, P526-P526.
Blackburn DJ, Alix JJP, Sarrigiannis P, Hoggard N & Bandmann O (2013) . Practical Neurology, 13(2), 114-119.
Iqbal AM, Blackburn D, Rafiq M & Sharrack B (2013) . Practical Neurology, 13(3), 193-195.
Blackburn D, Randall MS, Hoggard N, Highley R & Harkness K (2013) . Practical Neurology, 13(4), 263-267.
Blackburn DJ, Fox L, Mangoyana M & Bath PMW (2013) Repeat cognitive screening (MoCA, MMSE & ACE-R, IQCODE) in a high risk post-stroke population: data from the 'Prevention Of Decline in Cognition After Stroke Trial' (POD-CAST). CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES, 35, 519-519.
Alix JJP, Blackburn DJ, Sokhi D, Craven I, Sharrack B & Snowden JA (2013) . Journal of Neurology, 260(3), 914-916.
Blackburn DJ, Bafadhel L, Randall M & Harkness KA (2013) . Age and Ageing, 42(1), 113-116.
Alix JJP, Blackburn DJ, Bhattacharyya D & Ponnusamy A (2012) . The Spine Journal, 12(7), 629-630.
Sargsyan SA, Blackburn DJ, Barber SC, Grosskreutz J, De Vos KJ, Monk PN & Shaw PJ (2011) . BMC Neuroscience, 12(1).
Blackburn DJ, Walters S & Harkness K (2011) . Stroke, 42(11).
Bosnell R, Alty JE, Blackburn DJ, Burness CE, Chowdhury R, Gosh BCP & Stanton BR (2011) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 82(9), e4-e4.
Blackburn D, Chavada G, Dunleavy D, Hoggard N, Sharrack B, Ponnusamy S & Price S (2011) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 82(9), e4-e4.
Sargsyan SA, Blackburn DJ, Barber SC, Monk PN & Shaw PJ (2009) . NeuroReport, 20(16), 1450-1455.
BLACKBURN D, HIGHLEY JR, WHARTON S, ROMANOWSKI C, BOWEN J & SHARRACK B (2009) . APMIS, 117(10), 768-772.
Blackburn D, Sargsyan S, Monk PN & Shaw PJ (2009) . Glia, 57(12), 1251-1264.
Blackburn D & Pengiran Tengah DS (2007) . Practical Neurology, 7(5), 282-284.
Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Blackburn D & Christensen H () A two-step attention-based feature combination cross-attention system for speech-based dementia detection. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
Patel H, Blackburn D, Hariharan R, Nair KPS & Bell SM () . The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 1-7.
Bell SM, Wareing H, Capriglia F, Hughes R, Barnes K, Hamshaw A, Adair L, Shaw A, Olejnik A, De S , New E et al () . Molecular Psychiatry.
Littlejohn J, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A () . Frontiers in Dementia, 2, 1207546.
Mummery CJ, Börjesson-Hanson A, Blackburn DJ, Vijverberg EGB, De Deyn PP, Ducharme S, Jonsson M, Schneider A, Rinne JO, Ludolph AC , Bodenschatz R et al () . Nature Medicine.
Hadjivassiliou M, Blackburn D, O’Malley R & Hoggard N () . The Cerebellum.
Wardrope A, Bell S, Blackburn D, Dickson J, Reuber M & Walker T () . Journal of Medical Ethics.
Vázquez-Villaseñor I, Smith CI, Thang YJR, Heath PR, Wharton SB, Blackburn DJ, Ridger VC & Simpson JE () . International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(11), 5913-5913.
Manca R, De Marco M, Colston A, Raymont V, Amin J, Davies R, Kumar P, Russell G, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A () . Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 1-19.
Aftab A, Sidhom E, Forrest A, Judge N, Underwood BR, Harkness K & Blackburn DJ () . International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
Gunawardena SRAS, Sarrigiannis PG, Blackburn DJ & He F () .
Dake MD, De Marco M, Blackburn DJ, Wilkinson ID, Remes A, Liu Y, Pikkarainen M, Hallikainen M, Soininen H & Venneri A () . Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, 1-13.
Bell SM, Burgess T, Lee J, Blackburn DJ, Allen SP & Mortiboys H () . International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(23), 8924-8924.
Aitchison C, Blackburn DJ, Khan A, Grünewald RA & Jenkins TM () . International Journal of Clinical Practice.
Saxon JA, Thompson JC, Harris JM, Richardson AM, Langheinrich T, Rollinson S, Pickering-Brown S, Chaouch A, Ealing J, Hamdalla H , Young CA et al () . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
Pattrick M, Sarrigiannis PG, Kruger S, Davies B, Hoggard N, Irani SR, Unwin Z, Zis P, Blackburn DJ & Hadjivassiliou M () . Journal of Neurology.
Gunawardena SRAS, He F, Sarrigiannis P & Blackburn DJ () .
Sokhi DS, Oxenham C, Coates R, Forbes M, Gupta NK & Blackburn DJ () . PLOS ONE, 10(9), e0134574-e0134574.
Hughes HC () . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 77(3), 420-421.
Simon M Bell, Rejina Maniam, Alisha Patel, Kirsty Harkness, and Daniel Blackburn () Patients who are not driving 6 weeks after TIA have higher levels of anxiety. Psychogeriatrics..

Conference proceedings papers

Mirheidari B, Malley RO, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2023) . 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 16 December 2023 - 20 December 2023.
Goerttler S, He F, Wu M, Blackburn D & Sarrigiannis P (2023) . 2023 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB), 2 December 2023 - 2 December 2023.
Lanfranchi V, Fadlian M, Koilpillai SGA, Sproson L, Burke M, Chapman S & Blackburn D (2023) (pp 263-274)
Alzahrani F, Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Maddock S & Christensen H (2023) . 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 5 January 2023 - 8 January 2023.
Gunawardena R, Sarrigiannis PG, Blackburn DJ & He F (2022) . 2022 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB), 3 December 2022 - 3 December 2022.
Klepl D, He F, Min W, Blackburn D & Sarrigiannis P (2022) . 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 11 July 2022 - 15 July 2022.
Pan Y, Nallanthighal VS, Blackburn D, Christensen H & Harma A (2021) . ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 6 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
Attas D, Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Venneri A, Walker T, Harkness K, Reuber M, Blackmore C & Christensen H (2021) . Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 285 (pp 58-69)
Alzahrani F, Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Maddock S & Christensen H (2021) . 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2021
Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, OrMalley R, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2019) . ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 12 May 2019 - 17 May 2019.
Blackburn D, Sarrigiannis P, Yifan Z, De Marco M, Bell S, Venneri A, Billings S, Farrow T, Fei H, Unwin Z , Blythe M et al (2017) . Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Vol. 381 (pp 319-319)
Blackburn D, Reuber M, Christensen H, Mayer I, Rutten C, Venneri A, chirs E & Mirheidari B (2017) . Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Vol. 381 (pp 319-319)
Mirheidari B, Blackburn DJ, Harkness K, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2017) . Interspeech 2017 (pp 3147-3151)
Jones D, Reuber M, Elsey C, Blackburn D, Wakefield S, Ardern KA, Harkness K, Venneri A, Shaw C & Drew P (2017) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol. 13(7) (pp P1238-P1238), 15 July 2017 - 20 July 2017.
Blackburn D, Yifan Z, Bell S, Marco MD, He F, Wilkinson I, Farrow T, Venneri A & Sarrigiannis P (2016) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 87(12) (pp e1.192-e1)
Blackburn D, Elsey C, Harkness K, Wakefield S, Venneri A, Drew P & Reuber M (2016) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 87(12) (pp e1.191-e1)
Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Reuber M, Walker T & Christensen H (2016) . Proceedings of Interspeech 2016 (pp 1220-1224)
Blackburn DJ, Zhou Y, Bell S, De Marco M, Wilkinson I, He F, Wei HL, Farrow T, Venneri A & Sarrigiannis P (2016) . Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol. 12 (pp P353-P354)
Rohrer JD, Devine H, Foulkes A, Johnston A, Mallam B, Marshall C, Stanton B, Thomas R & Blackburn D (2014) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 85(10) (pp e4.162-e4)
Blackburn D, Wakefield S, Bell S, Harkness K, Venneri A & Reuber M (2014) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 85(10) (pp e4.137-e4)
LittleJohn J, Dennis G, Bianchi S, Harkness K, Thiyagesh S & Blackburn D (2014) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 85(10) (pp e4.171-e4)
Blackburn D, Alix JP & Bandmann O (2012) . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 83(Suppl 2) (pp A16.2-A16)
Mirheidari B, Blackburn D & Christensen H () . Interspeech 2022
Hollands S, Blackburn D & Christensen H () . Interspeech 2022
Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Harris JM, Thompson JC, Jones M, Snowden JS, Blackburn D & Christensen H () . Interspeech 2021
Mirheidari B, Pan Y, Blackburn D, O’Malley R & Christensen H () . Interspeech 2021
Cummins N, Pan Y, Ren Z, Fritsch J, Nallanthighal VS, Christensen H, Blackburn D, Schuller BW, Magimai-Doss M, Strik H & Härmä A () . Interspeech 2020
Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H () . Interspeech 2020
Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, O’Malley R, Venneri A, Walker T, Reuber M & Christensen H () . Interspeech 2020
Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Tu Z, O’Malley R, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M, Blackburn D & Christensen H () . Interspeech 2020
Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H () . Interspeech 2019
Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H () . Interspeech 2018

Preprints

Pahar M, Tao F, Mirheidari B, Pevy N, Bright R, Gadgil S, Sproson L, Braun D, Illingworth C, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2025) CognoSpeak: an automatic, remote assessment of early cognitive decline in real-world conversational speech, arXiv.
Tao F, Mirheidari B, Pahar M, Young S, Xiao Y, Elghazaly H, Peters F, Illingworth C, Braun D, O'Malley R , Bell S et al (2024) , arXiv.
Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis PG (2023) , arXiv.
Bell SM, Wareing H, Hamshaw A, De S, New E, Shaw PJ, De Marco M, Venneri A, Blackburn DJ, Ferraiuolo L & Mortiboys H (2023) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis PG (2022) Bispectrum-based Cross-frequency Functional Connectivity: Classification of Alzheimer's disease, arXiv.
Klepl D, He F, Wu M, De Marco M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis P (2021) Characterising Alzheimer's Disease with EEG-based Energy Landscape Analysis, arXiv.
Aitchison C, Blackburn D, Khan A, newald RG & Jenkins T (2020) , Authorea.
Mirheidari B, Pan Y, Blackburn D, O'Malley R, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2020) Data augmentation using generative networks to identify dementia, arXiv.
Mirheidari B, Pan Y, Walker T, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2019) Detecting Alzheimer's Disease by estimating attention and elicitation path through the alignment of spoken picture descriptions with the picture prompt.
Mirheidari B, Pan Y, Walker T, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2019) Detecting Alzheimer's Disease by estimating attention and elicitation path through the alignment of spoken picture descriptions with the picture prompt, arXiv.
Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis PG () , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Klepl D, He F, Wu M, Blackburn DJ & Sarrigiannis PG () , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Research group

I co-supervise the following students

1^st Supervisor PhD

Dr Ronan O’Malley is working on the digital doctor project to explore how linguistic analysis of semantic dysfunction can be combined with imaging and AD biomarkers to best manage MCI and predict conversion to AD.
Dr Leslie Ing: Developing CognoMND and automated assessment of Cognition based on language for people with MND (Y2). Co-supervisor Prof Chris McDermott and Prof Heidi Christensen
Labhpreet Kaur investigating automated assessment of collateral history form acre-partners to aid detection and diagnosis of cognitive impairment (Y1) Co-supervisor Prof Heidi Christensen

2^nd Supervisor PhD

Sam Hollands “Early onset cognitive impairment detection from speech and language signals” 1^st supervise Heidi Christensen Funding Computer Science Doctoral Training Centre
Meg Thomas- Roe of dysfuencies in cognitive impairment. 1^st Supervisor Traci Walker. Computer Science Doctoral Training Centre
Jin Ni- Individualised Adaptive P300-based Brain-computer Interface for TreatincCognitive Impairment Symptoms after Stroke. 1^st supervisor Mahnaz Arvanah
Mian Kou is the student's name.: Multimodal Intelligent Neural Interfaces for Early Detection and Treatment of Post-stroke Dementia. 1^st supervisor Mahnaz Arvanah. Funding DiMEM.

Academic Clinical Lecturers

Dr Simon Bell – has been funded by ARUK, NIHR ��«Ӱҵ BRC and now Wellcome 4ward north Academy investigating models of sporadic AD using i-astrocytes created using INPC
Dr Richard Bevan Jones. -investigating FTD and cognitive and behavioural disturbance in atypical Parkinsons’s disease.

Clinical Fellow

Dr Hina Khan, Investigating feasibility of cognitive assessment using CognoSpeak in South Asian communities

Teaching interests

I helped set up the Clinical Neurology MSc course. I was the course lead for 12 months and have led two modules . I provide lectures and supervise research projects and CNELM students.

I teach on Neurodegeneration to MSc, UG medical students and PG students

I am a faculty member of the Neurology Academy, (The Edge, ��«Ӱҵ) which provides masterclass teaching on Dementia for clinicians

Professional activities and memberships

Chair of the Special Interest Group in Cognitive Disorders – Association of British Neurologists
ARUK Clinical Policy Advisory Panel member
I am co-lead for dementia, for the Yorkshire and Humber regional Clincial Research Network.
Member of the South Yorkshire Interest Group in Dementia
Member of UoS Senate Research and Innovation Committee
I sit on the Dementia Translational Research Collaboration panel
I am the lead for long term neurological conditions for Devices for Dignity NIHR MTC.

Collaborators

Professor Robert Perneckzy, Psychaity, UoS
Professor Heidi Christensen- Professor of Spoken Language Technology, Computer Science, UoS
Professor Markus Reuber- Neurology UoS
Professor Oliver Bandmann, Professor of Movement disorders, UoS
Dr Traci Walker- Lecturer Department of Human Communication Sciences, Uo
Professor Chris McDermott, Professor of Translational Neurology
Dr Mahnaz Arvaneh, Senior Lecturer, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
Dr Jon Dickson, Academic GP, UoS
Dr Sam Creaven, Academic GP, University of Bristol
Dr Ptolemaios Sarrigiannis, Consultant Neurophysiologist
Professor Ananlena Venneri- Neuropsychology & Imaging, Brunel University
Dr Matteo De Marco- Neuropsychology & Imaging, Brunel University
Professor Vanessa Raymond, University of Oxford
Professor Paresh Malhotra, Imperial College London