Miss Sarah Mason

Sarah Mason

University position

PhD student
Supervised by Dr Roger Barker, Professor Barbara Sahakian

Departments

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Institutes

Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair

Email

slm64@cam.ac.uk

Home page

http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/Barker/...

Research Theme

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

Research into the neuropsychological profile of presymptomatic Huntington's disease using fMRI scanning and behavioural testing. With particular interests in areas such as reward processing and hippocampal function.

Research into predictors of dementia in Parkinson's patients through longitudinal follow up of an incidence cohort.

Research Focus

Keywords

Huntington's disease

Parkinson's disease

Reward processing

Hippocampal function

fMRI

Clinical conditions

Huntington's disease

Parkinson's disease

Equipment

fMRI

Neuropsychological testing

Collaborators

International

Adam Hampshire

Adrian Owen

Publications

2011

Evans JR, Mason SL, Williams-Gray CH, Foltynie T, Brayne C, Robbins TW, Barker RA (2011), “The natural history of treated Parkinson's disease in an incident, community based cohort.” J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry Details

2010

Antoniades CA, Xu Z, Mason SL, Carpenter RH, Barker RA (2010), “Huntington's disease: changes in saccades and hand-tapping over 3 years.” J Neurol 257(11):1890-8 Details

Calder AJ, Keane J, Young AW, Lawrence AD, Mason S, Barker RA (2010), “The relation between anger and different forms of disgust: implications for emotion recognition impairments in Huntington's disease.” Neuropsychologia 48(9):2719-29 Details

Mason SL, Wijeyekoon R, Swain R, Ho AK, Smith EL, Sahakian B, Barker RA (2010), “Cognitive follow up of a small cohort of Huntington's disease patients over a 5 year period.” PLoS Curr 2 Details

2009

Lazic SE, Mason SL, Michell AW, Barker RA (2009), “Visualising disease progression on multiple variables with vector plots and path plots.” BMC Med Res Methodol 9:32 Details

Mason SL, Barker RA (2009), “Emerging drug therapies in Huntington's disease.” Expert Opin Emerg Drugs 14(2):273-97 Details

2008

Wedderburn C, Wear H, Brown J, Mason SJ, Barker RA, Hodges J, Williams-Gray C (2008), “The utility of the Cambridge Behavioural Inventory in neurodegenerative disease.” J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 79(5):500-3 Details

2007

Antoniades CA, Altham PM, Mason SL, Barker RA, Carpenter R (2007), “Saccadometry: a new tool for evaluating presymptomatic Huntington patients.” Neuroreport 18(11):1133-6 Details