Dr Cheryl Stopford
cheryl.stopford@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Cheryl Stopford graduated from Lancaster University in 2000 with a BSc (Hons) degree in Psychology. Following this, she worked on the General Neurology ward at Royal Preston Hospital before joining the Cerebral Function Unit as a Research Assistant. In this post, funded by the Bill Edmonds Trust, Cheryl has gained a wealth of clinical experience in neuropsychological assessment and in 2009 completed a PhD on Phenotypic Variation in Alzheimer’s disease, the findings of which have led to a number of high quality research publications.
Her present role as a Research Associate involves both neuropsychological assessment of patients attending the CFU clinics and research into neuropsychological and neuroimaging aspects of degenerative disease.
Further to her clinical and research activities, Cheryl has been instrumental in the development and running of the CFU support group for carers of people with frontotemporal dementia and semantic dementia and together with other members of the team produces the quarterly newsletters that are sent out to members of the group.
Publications
Stopford CL, Snowden JS, Thompson JC, Neary D. Variability in cognitive presentation of Alzheimer’s disease. Cortex 2008; 44: 185-95.
Snowden JS, Stopford C, Julien C, Thompson JC, Davidson Y, Gibbons L, et al. Cognitive phenotypes in Alzheimer’s disease and genetic risk. Cortex 2007; 43: 835-45.
Stopford CL, Snowden JS, Thompson JC, Neary D. Distinct memory profiles in Alzheimer’s disease. Cortex 2007; 43: 846-57.
Davidson Y, Gibbons L, Pritchard A, Wren J, Tian J, Shi J, Stopford C, Julien C, Thompson J, Payton A, Thaker U, Hayes AJ, Iwatsubo T, Pickering-Brown SM, Pendleton N, Horan MA, Burns A, Purundare NB, Lendon CL, Neary D, Snowden JS, Mann DMA. Genetic associations between cathepsin D exon 2 C>T polymorphism and Alzheimer’s disease and pathological correlations with genotype. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry, 2006; 77, 515-517.
Shi J, Shaw CL, Du Plessis D, Richardson AMT, Bailey KL, Julien C, Stopford C, Thompson J, Varma, A, Craufurd D, Tian J, Pickering-Brown S, Neary D, Snowden JS, Mann DMA. Histopathological changes underlying frontotemporal lobar degeneration with clinicopathological correlation. Acta Neuropathologica, 2006; 110: 501-12.
Srinivasan R, Davidson Y, Gibbons L, Payton A, Richardson AMT, Varma A, Julien C, Stopford C, Thompson J, Horan MA, Pendleton N, Pickering-Brown SM, Neary D, Snowden JS, Mann DMA. The apolipoprotein E 4 allele selectively increases the risk of frontotemporal lobar degeneration in males. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry, 2006; 77: 154 - 158.
Thompson JC, Stopford CL, Snowden JS, Neary D. Qualitative neuropsychological performance characteristics in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2005; 76:920-7.
