Jennifer Thompson

jennifer.thompson@manchester.ac.uk

Jennifer Thompson is a research neuropsychologist at the Cerebral Function Unit. Her role involves carrying out neuropsychological assessment of patients attending the unit and contributing to research investigating neuropsychological aspects of neurodegenerative disorders. 

She has a special interest in neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric aspects of Huntington's disease and is co-lead facilitator of the Neuropsychology Working Group of the European Huntington's Disease Network. Jennifer is currently writing a PhD on automaticity in Huntington’s disease.

Publications

Thompson JC, Poliakoff E, Sollom AC, Howard E, Craufurd D, Snowden JS. Automaticity and attention in Huntington’s disease: when two hands are not better than one. Neuropsychologia 2010; 48: 171-8.

Julien CL, Thompson JC, Neary D, Snowden JS. Arithmetic knowledge in semantic dementia: Is it invariably preserved? Neuropsychologia, 2008, 46: 2732-2744.

Snowden JS, Austin NA, Sembi S, Thompson JC, Craufurd D, Neary D. Emotion recognition in Huntington's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychologia, 2008, 46: 2638-2649.

Stopford CL, Snowden JS, Thompson JC, Neary D.  Variability in cognitive presentation of Alzheimer’s disease.  Cortex, 2008, 846-857 .

Stopford CL, Snowden JS, Thompson JC, Neary D.  Distinct memory profiles in Alzheimer’s disease.  Cortex, 2007, 846-857.

Snowden JS, Stopford C, Julien C, Thompson JC, Davidson Y, Gibbons L, Prichard A, Lendon CL, Richardson A, Varma A, Neary D, Mann DMA.  Cognitive phenotypes in Alzheimer’s disease and Genetic Risk.  Cortex, 2007, 44: 185-195.

Gibbons ZC, Snowden JS, Thompson JC, Happé F, Richardson A, Neary D.  Inferring thought and action in motor neuron disease.  Neuropsychologia 2007; 45: 1196-1207.

Julien CL, Thompson JC, Wild S, Yardumian P, Snowden JS, Turner G, Craufurd C. Psychiatric disorders in pre-clinical Huntington's Disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 2007, 78: 939-943.

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. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and 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. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and 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.

Snowden JS, Thompson JC, Neary D. Knowledge of famous faces and names in semantic dementia. Brain 2004; 127:860-872.

Ho AK, Sahakian BJ, Brown RG, Barker RA, Hodges JR, Ané M-N, Snowden JS, Thompson J, Esmonde T, Gentry R, Moore JW, Bodner T. Profile of cognitive progression in early Huntington's disease. Neurology 2003; 61:1702-6.

Snowden JS, Gibbons ZC, Blackshaw A, Doubleday E, Thompson J, Craufurd D, Foster J, Happé F, Neary D. Social cognition in frontotemporal dementia and Huntington’s disease. Neuropsychologia 2003; 41:688-701.

Thompson JC, Beswick T, Foster JK, Snowden JS. New learning and remote memory in atypical Alzheimer's disease. Cortex 2003; 39:751-66.

Snowden JS, Craufurd D, Thompson J, Neary D. Psychomotor, executive and memory function in preclinical Huntington's disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2002; 24:133-145.

Thompson JC, Snowden JS, Craufurd D, Neary D. Behavior in Huntington's disease: dissociating cognition-based and mood-based changes. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2002; 14:37-43.

Craufurd D, Thompson JC, Snowden JS. Behavioural change in Huntington's disease. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioural Neurology 2001; 14:219-226.

Snowden JS, Craufurd D, Griffiths HL, Thompson J, Neary D. Longitudinal evaluation of cognitive disorder in Huntington's disease. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2000, 6(7), 33-44.