BBG Publications

The Brain Behaviour Group (BBG) Publications

Recent Publications

2024

• Mazzeo et al. 2024. Dysphagia in primary progressive aphasia: Clinical predictors and neuroanatomical basis. Eur J Neurol. 31:e16370
• Volkmer A et al. 2024. COS-PPA: protocol to develop a core outcome set for primary progressive aphasia. BMJ Open. 14:e078714. 
• Hardy CJD, et al. 2024. Symptom-based staging for logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia. Eur J Neurol. 31:e16304. 
• van’t Hooft J, et al. 2024. Musical experience influences socio-emotional functioning in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. Front. Neurol. 15. 

2023

• Hardy CJD, et al. 2023. Symptom‐led staging for semantic and non‐fluent/agrammatic variants of primary progressive aphasia. Alzheimer’s & Dementia. 20(1): 195-210. 
• van Leeuwen JEP, et al. 2023. Pupil responses to colorfulness are selectively reduced in healthy older adults. Sci. Rep. 13, 22139. 
• Mulroy E, et al. 2023. Binary reversals: a diagnostic sign in primary progressive aphasia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 
• Volkmer A, et al. 2023. Development of fidelity of delivery and enactment measures for interventions in communication disorders. British Journal of Health Psychology. 29(1): 112-133. 
• Jiang J, et al. 2023. Comprehension of acoustically degraded speech in Alzheimer’s disease and primary progressive aphasia. Brain. 146(10): 4065-4076. 
• Belder CRS, et al. 2023. Primary progressive aphasia: six questions in search of an answer. Journal of Neurology. 271: 1028-1046. 
• Volkmer A, et al. 2023. Results from a randomized controlled pilot study of the Better Conversations with Primary Progressive Aphasia (BCPPA) communication partner training program for people with PPA and their communication partner. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 9(87). 
• Chokesuwattanaskul A, et al. 2023. The architecture of abnormal reward behaviour in dementia: multimodal hedonic phenotypes and brain substrate. Brain Comm. 5(2). 
• Barnes RJQ, Warren JD, 2023. Shouting from far away: three poems about living with speechlessness. Prac. Neurol. 23:176-177. 
• Belder CRS, et al. 2023. The problematic syndrome of right temporal lobe atrophy: Unweaving the phenotypic rainbow. Front. Neurol. 13. 
• van Leeuwen JEP, et al. 2023. Thinking eyes: visual thinking strategies and the social brain. Front. Psychol. 14. 

2022

• Loizidou M, et al. 2022. ‘Like going into a chocolate shop, blindfolded’: What do people with primary progressive aphasia want from speech and language therapy? International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 58(3): 737-755. 
• Chokesuwattanaskul A, et al. 2022. Primary progressive aphasia: ReADing the clinical GRANularity. Prac. Neurol. 22:509-514. 
• Requena-Komuro M-C, Jiang J, 2022. Remote versus face-to-face neuropsychological testing for dementia research: a comparative study in people with Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia and healthy older individuals. BMJ Open. 12. 
• Jiang J, et al. 2022. Phonemic restoration in Alzheimer’s disease and semantic dementia: a preliminary investigation. Brain Comm. 4(3). 
• Bolton L, et al. 2022. Music as a person centred intervention for dementia. BMJ. 376. 
• van Leeuwen JEP, et al. 2022. More Than Meets the Eye: Art Engages the Social Brain. Front. Neurosci. 16. 

2021

• Sivasathiaseelan H, et al. 2021. Laughter as a paradigm of socio-emotional signal processing in dementia. Cortex. 142:186-203. 
• Johnson JCS, et al. 2021. Suspecting dementia: canaries, chameleons and zebras. Prac. Neurol. 21:300-312. 
• Jiang J, et al. 2021. Processing of Degraded Speech in Brain Disorders. Brain Sci. 11(3): 394.
• Ruksenaite J, et al. 2021. Primary Progressive Aphasia: Toward a Pathophysiological Synthesis. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 21.  
• Johnson JCS, et al. 2021. Hearing and dementia: from ears to brain. Brain. 144(2): 391-401. 
• Benhamou E, et al. 2021. Decoding expectation and surprise in dementia: the paradigm of music. Brain Comm. 3(3). 

2020

• Zimmerer VC, et al. 2020. Automated profiling of spontaneous speech in primary progressive aphasia and behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia: An approach based on usage-frequency. Cortex. 133:103-119. 
• Benhamou E, et al. 2020. The neurophysiological architecture of semantic dementia: spectral dynamic causal modelling of a neurodegenerative proteinopathy. Scientific Reports. 10. 
• Utoomprurkporn N, et al. 2020. “The Dichotic Digit Test” as an Index Indicator for Hearing Problem in Dementia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Am Acad Audiol. 31(9):646-655. 
• Jimenez DA, et al. 2020. Altered phobic reactions in frontotemporal dementia: A behavioural and neuroanatomical analysis. Cortex. 130:100-110. 
• Hardy CJD, et al. 2020. Impairments of auditory scene analysis in posterior cortical atrophy. Brain. 143(9): 2689-2695. 
• Johnson JCS, et al. 2020. Impaired phonemic discrimination in logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 7(7): 1252-1257. 
• Requena-Komuro M-C, et al. 2020. Altered Time Awareness in Dementia. Front. Neurol. 11. 
• Benhamou E, Warren JD, 2020. Disorders of music processing in dementia. Music and the Aging Brain. 107-149. 

Selection of our earlier papers:

2019

• Hardy CJD, et al. 2019. Findings of impaired hearing in nonfluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia. JAMA Neurology, 76(5):607-611. 
• Marshall CR, et al. 2019. The functional neuroanatomy of emotion processing in frontotemporal dementias. Brain 142(9):2873-2887. 
• Sani TP, et al. 2019. Sleep symptoms in syndromes of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease: A proof-of-principle behavioural study. eNeurologicalSci 17: 100212. 
• Slattery CF, et al. 2019. The functional neuroanatomy of musical memory in Alzheimer’s disease. Cortex 115: 357-370.
• Volkmer A, et al. 2019. Speech and language therapy for primary progressive aphasia across the UK: A survey of current practice. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 54(6): 914-926.

2018

• Hardy CJD, et al. 2018. Retained capacity for perceptual learning of degraded speech in primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer’s Research and Therapy 10(1): 70.
• Magdalinou NK, et al. 2018. Verbal adynamia in parkinsonian syndromes: behavioral correlates and neuroanatomical substrate. Neurocase 24(4): 204-212.
• Marshall CR, et al. 2018. Motor signatures of emotional reactivity in frontotemporal dementia. Scientific Reports 8: 1030.
• Marshall CR, et al. 2018. Cardiac responses to viewing facial emotion differentiate frontotemporal dementias. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology 5(6): 687-696.
• Muhammed L, et al. 2018. Agnosia for bird calls. Neuropsychologia 113: 61-67.
• Volkmer A, et al. 2018. The 'Better Conversations with Primary Progressive Aphasia (BCPPA)' program for people with PPA (Primary Progressive Aphasia): protocol for a randomised controlled pilot study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies 4: 158.

2017

• Golden HL, et al. 2017. Music perception in dementia. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 55: 933-949.
• Hardy CJ, et al. 2017. Functional neuroanatomy of speech signal decoding in primary progressive aphasias. Neurobiology of Aging 56: 190-201.
• Hardy CJD, et al. 2017. Donepezil enhances understanding of degraded speech in Alzheimer’s disease. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology 4(11): 835-840.
• Marshall CR, et al. 2017. Impaired interoceptive accuracy in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia. Frontiers in Neurology 8: 610.

2016

• Cohen MH, et al. 2016. Processing emotion from abstract art in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Neuropsychologia 81: 245-254.
• Golden HL, et al. 2016. Functional neuroanatomy of spatial sound processing in Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology of Ageing 39: 154-164.
• Jaisin K, et al. 2016. The speech-to-song Illusion Is reduced in speakers of tonal (vs. non-tonal) languages. Frontiers in Psychology 7: 662. 

2015

• Clark CN, et al. 2015. Humour processing in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: A behavioural and neuroanatomical analysis. Cortex 69, 47-59.
• Fletcher PD, et al. 2015. Auditory hedonic phenotypes in dementia: A behavioural and neuroanatomical analysis. Cortex 67: 95-105.
• Fletcher PD, et al. 2015. Pain and temperature processing in dementia: a clinical and neuroanatomical analysis. Brain 138: 3360-3372
• Fletcher PD, et al. 2015. Physiological phenotyping of dementias using emotional sounds. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 1: 170–178.
• Golden HL, et al. 2015. Functional neuroanatomy of auditory scene analysis in Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimage Clinical 7: 699-708.
• Golden HL, et al. 2015. Auditory spatial processing in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain 138: 189-202.
• Hardy CJ, et al. 2015. The Language Profile of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 50: 359-371.
• Mahoney CJ, et al. 2015. Longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging in frontotemporal dementia. Annals of Neurology 77: 33-46. 

2014

• Downey LE, et al. 2014. Altered body schema processing in frontotemporal dementia with C9ORF72 mutations. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 85: 1016-1023.

2013

• Downey LE, et al. 2013. Mentalising music in frontotemporal dementia. Cortex 49: 1844-1855
• Omar R, et al. 2013. Flavour identification in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 84: 88-93.

2012

• Goll JC, et al. 2012. Impairments of auditory scene analysis in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain 135(Pt 1): 190-200.
• Goll JC, et al. 2012. Nonverbal sound processing in semantic dementia: A functional MRI study. Neuroimage 61(1): 170-180.
• Hailstone JC, et al. 2012. Accent processing in dementia. Neuropsychologia 50(9): 2233-2244.
• Mahoney CJ, et al. 2012. Frontotemporal dementia with the C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion: clinical, neuroanatomical and neuropathological features. Brain 135(Pt 3): 736-750.
• Rohrer JD, et al. 2012. Receptive prosody in nonfluent primary progressive aphasias. Cortex 48(3): 308-316.
• Warren JD, et al. 2012. Disintegrating brain networks: from syndromes to molecular nexopathies. Neuron 73: 1060–1062.

2011

• Goll JC, et al. 2011. Auditory object cognition in dementia. Neuropsychologia. 49: 2755-2765.
• Hailstone JC, et al. 2011. Voice processing in dementia: a neuropsychological and neuroanatomical analysis. Brain 134(Pt 9): 2535-2547.
• Omar R, et al. 2011. The structural neuroanatomy of music emotion recognition: evidence from frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Neuroimage 56(3): 1814-1821.
• Rohrer JD, et al. 2011. Clinical and neuroanatomical signatures of tissue pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Brain 134(Pt 9): 2565-2581.

2010

• Goll JC, et al. 2010. Non-verbal sound processing in the primary progressive aphasias. Brain 133(Pt 1): 272-285.
• Omar R, et al. 2010. The cognitive organisation of music knowledge: a clinical analysis. Brain 133: 1200-1213.
• Piwnica-Worms KE, et al. 2010. Flavour processing in semantic dementia. Cortex 46: 761-768.
• Rohrer JD, Warren JD, 2010. Phenomenology and anatomy of abnormal behaviours in primary progressive aphasia. Journal of the Neurological Sciences 293: 35-38.
• Rohrer JD, et al. 2010. Progranulin-associated primary progressive aphasia: A distinct phenotype? Neuropsychologia 48: 288-297.
• Rohrer JD, et al. 2010. Syndromes of nonfluent primary progressive aphasia: a clinical and neurolinguistic analysis. Neurology 75: 603-610.
• Rohrer JD, et al. 2010. Progressive logopenic/phonological aphasia: erosion of the language network. Neuroimage 49: 984-993.
• Rohrer JD, et al. 2010. Distinct profiles of brain atrophy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration caused by progranulin and tau mutations. Neuroimage 53: 1070-1076.

2009

• Hailstone J, et al. 2009. Relatively preserved knowledge of music in semantic dementia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 80: 808-809.
• Hailstone JC, et al. 2009. It’s not what you play, it’s how you play it: timbre affects perception of emotion in music. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62: 2141-2155.

2007

• Whitwell JL, et al. 2007. VBM signatures of abnormal eating behaviours in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. NeuroImage 35(1): 207-213.

2006

• Warren JD, et al. 2006. Human brain mechanisms for the early analysis of voices. NeuroImage 31(3): 1389-1397.

2005

• Warren JD, et al. 2005. Analysis of the spectral envelope of sounds by the human brain. Neuroimage 24(4): 1052-1057.
• Warren JD, et al. 2005. Brain biopsy in dementia. Brain 128(9): 2016-2025.
• Warren JE, et al. 2005. Sounds do-able: auditory-motor transformations and the posterior temporal plane. Trends in Neurosciences 28(12): 636-643.

2004

• Griffiths TD, Warren JD, 2004. What is an auditory object? Nature Reviews Neuroscience 5(11): 887-892.

2003

• Warren JD, Griffiths TD, 2003. Distinct mechanisms for processing spatial sequences and pitch sequences in the human auditory brain. Journal of Neuroscience 23(13): 5799-5804.
• Warren JD, et al. 2003. Separating pitch chroma and pitch height in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100(17): 10038-10042.

2002

• Griffiths TD, Warren JD, 2002. The planum temporale as a computational hub. Trends in Neurosciences 25(7): 348-353.
• Warren JD, et al. 2002. Perception of sound-source motion by the human brain. Neuron 34(1): 139-148.