Staff Profile

Academic background

• 2014    Current Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology trainee

• 2013    MSc Health Psychology (Distinction), Sheffield Hallam University

• 2005    BSc Psychology (Honours First Class), Open University

• 1997    BSc Social Sciences (Honours First Class), Open University

• 1989    Registered Sick Children’s Nurse (RSCN), Westminster Children’s Hospital,

• 1986    Registered General Nurse (SRN) Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

Expertise

• Planning, organising and conducting a large battery of neuro-psychological and physical assessments

• Interviewing older adults with dementia and carers individually and in groups

• Conducting clinic based memory assessments

• Supporting patients and relatives around assessment and diagnosis

• Database design, data management and statistical analysis using SPSS and EXCEL

• Questionnaire design

• Design of 3D cognitive testing equipment for visually impaired patients

• Design and compilation of study newsletters for participants

• Leading focus groups

• Service evaluation

• Health related consultancy

• 2017-present ‘Development and Evaluation of a Lewy Body Disorder Support and Information Group’ Funded by Lewy Body Society £50,000

• 2013-2017 ‘Visual Hallucinations, an EEG and non-invasive Stimulation’

• 2010-2013 ‘Cognitive and Attentional function in Lewy Body Disease’

• 2008-2010 ‘Cognition in Visually Impaired Older Adults’

• 2007-2008 ‘Vision in Parkinson’s disease’

SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=24481271500

• Peraza LR, Cromarty RA, Kobeleva X, Firbank MJ, Killen A, Graziadio S, Thomas AJ, O'Brien JT, Taylor J-P. Electroencephalographic derived network differences in Lewy body dementia compared to Alzheimer’s disease patients. Scientific Reports 2018, 8, 4637.
• Stylianou M, Murphy N, Peraza LR, Graziadio S, Cromarty R, Killen A, O'Brien JT, Thomas AJ, LeBeau FEN, Taylor J-P. Quantitative electroencephalography as a marker of cognitive fluctuations in dementia with Lewy bodies and aid to differential diagnosis. Clinical Neurophysiology 2018, 129(6), 1209-1220.
• Firbank MJ, Parikh J, Murphy N, Killen A, Allan CL, Collerton D, Blamire AM, Taylor JP. Reduced occipital GABA in Parkinson disease with visual hallucinations. Neurology 2018, 91(7), e675-e685.
• Firbank M, Kobeleva X, Cherry G, Killen A, Gallagher P, Burn DJ, Thomas AJ, O'Brien JT, Taylor JP. Neural correlates of attention-executive dysfunction in lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Human Brain Mapping 2016, 37(3), 1254-1270.
• Killen A, Flynn D, De Brún A, O'Brien N, O'Brien J, Thomas AJ, McKeith I, Taylor JP. Support and information needs following a diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies. International Psychogeriatrics 2016, 28(3), 495-501.
• Murphy N, Killen A, Graziadio S, Peraza LR, Firbank M, Baker M, Elder G, Thomas A, McKeith I, Rochester L, Taylor J-P. Early Bottom-Up Visual Information Processing in Hallucinating Patients with Parkinson’s Disease with Dementia: A Preliminary Visual Evoked Potential Study. In: International Dementia with Lewy Bodies Conference 2015. 2015, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA: American Journal of Neurodegenerative Disease.
• Cromarty R, Graziadio S, Colloby S, Killen A, Peraza LR, Elder G, Firbank M, Thomas A, McKeith I, O'Brien J, Taylor J-P. Electrophysiological Correlates of Attentional Dysfunction in Dementia with Lewy Bodies. In: International Dementia with Lewy Bodies Conference 2015. 2015, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA: American Journal of Neurodegenerative Disease.
• Urwyler P, Nef T, Muri RM, Killen A, Collerton D, Burn D, McKeith I, Mosimann UP. Patient and Informant Views on Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson Disease. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2015, 23(9), 970-976.
• Urwyler P, Nef T, Killen A, Collerton D, Thomas A, Burn D, McKeith I, Mosimann UP. Visual complaints and visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 2014, 20(3), 318-322.
• Killen AJ, Firbank MJ, Collerton D, Clarke MP, Jefferis J, Taylor J-P, McKeith IG, Mosimann U. The assessment of cognition in visually impaired older adults. Age and Ageing 2013, 42(1), 98-102.
• Mosimann UP, Collerton D, Dudley R, Meyer TD, Graham G, Dean JL, Bearn D, Killen A, Dickinson L, Clarke MP, McKeith IG. A semi-structured interview to assess visual hallucinations in older people. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2008, 23(7), 712-718.