Biography

I am a cognitive neuropsychologist, director of research and REF lead for Unit of Assessment 4. External facing roles include: President-elect of the British Neuropsychological Society, Associate Editor of European Neurology and external advisor for the Degree Program in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Italy.

I was awarded my PhD in visual neurophysiology from the Department of Communication and Neuroscience, Keele University in 1988, and went onto complete a series of postdoctoral fellowships in the MRC Neuropsychology Unit, Oxford University, with Professor Freda Newcombe; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Birmingham with Professor Glyn Humphreys; and University Department of Psychiatry, Birmingham, with psychiatrist Professor Femi Oyebode. She returned to Keele University in 1999 as lecturer, promoted to senior lecturer in 2006, and Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation in 2013.

Research and scholarship

My current research has two main areas of focus. The first is exploring episodic and familiarity aware memory in different clinical populations: anteromedial thalamic lesion patients, Parkinson’s, Major depressive disorder.

The second theme applies the APA Research Domain Criteria framework to exploring risk factors that predispose Individuals with Parkinson’s to dopaminergic medication side-effects that include impulse control behaviours, and episodic memory decline.

Research grants:

PI: Williams, H., Mentor:  Edelstyn, N.M.J.

Title: Measuring Recollection and Familiarity in Ageing and Mild Cognitive Impairment 

ID: ES/N001753/1    Amount: £213,355

ESRC future leaders

Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie International Fellowship. PI: Edelstyn, Fellow: Dr Elisa Di Rosa (University of Padua, Italy), 

Partner organisations: Washington University, Saint Louis, USA (Braver, T) and University of Padua, Italy (Mapelli, D)

Title: Motivation-cognition interaction in ageing and Parkinson’s disease. ID: 749084  Amount Euros 250,000

Horizon 2020

PI: Laurence, S. Mentor:  Edelstyn, N.M.J.,

Title: Measuring the age-invariance of face recognition

Amount: £250,000

ESRC Early Career  

 

Teaching

Year 1

  • PSY-10019: Applied Psychology
  • PSY-10034: Biological and Cognitive Psychology 

Year 2

  • PSY-20023: Cognitive Neuroscience
  • PSY-20033: Psychopathology (module leader)
  • PSY-20045: Biological and Cognitive Psychology 

Year 3

  • PSY-30061: Final Year Research Project
  • PSY-30114: Everyday Memory and Amnesia
  • PSY-30099: Key Readings in Cognitive Psychology

MSc

  • PSY-40039: Advanced Research Skills and Design
  • PSY-40044: Advanced Study in Cognitive Psychology
  • PSY-40075: Advanced Study in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Publications

Publications (recent REF cycle)
  • Martini, A.,  Dal Lago, D., Edelstyn, NMJ, Salgarello, M., Lugoboni,  F., & Tamburin, S.  (2018).Dopaminergic neurotransmission in patients with Parkinson’s disease and impulse control disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of PET and SPECT studies. Frontiers in Neurology, section Movement Disorder. JIF 3.508 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6290338/
  • Martini, A.,  Dal Lago, D., Edelstyn, NMJ,  Grange, J.A.  & Tamburin, S.  (2018). Impulse control disorder in Parkinson’s disease: a meta-analysis of cognitive, affective and motivational correlates. Frontiers in Neurology. JIF 3.508 https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.00654
  • Cona, G., Laera, G., Edelstyn, NMJ & Bisiacchi, P. (2018). Deficits in Prospective Memory following damage to the medial subdivision of the Mediodorsal thalamic nucleus. Journal of Neuropsychology  10.1111/jnp.12154 JIF 3.2
  • Martini, A., Ellis, SJ., Grange, J.A.,  Tamburin, S., Dal Lago, D., Vianello, G.,  &  Edelstyn, N.M.J.. (2018). Risky decision-making and affective features of impulsive control disorder in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neural Transmission. JIF 2.39 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00702-017-1807-7.pdf
  • Shepherd, T.A.,  Edelstyn, N.M.J., Longshaw, L., Sim, J.,  Watts, K., Andrew R. Mayes, A.R., Murray,  M.  & Ellis, S.J. (2017) Feasibility of a randomized single-blind cross-over trial assessing the effects of the second generation slow-release dopamine agonists pramipexole and ropinirole on cued-recall memory in idiopathic mild or moderate Parkinson’s disease without cognitive impairment. Pilot and Feasibility Studies 4, 11-24. DOI 10.1186/s40814-017-0154-7
  • Moro, V., Pernigo, S., Tsakiris, M., Avesani, R., Edelstyn, N.M.J., Jenkinson, P., Fotopoulou, A.  (2016). Motor Versus Body Awareness: Voxel-based Lesion Analysis in Anosognosia for Hemiplegia and Somatoparaphrenia Following Right Hemisphere Stroke. Cortex doi: 10.1016/ j.cortex.2016.07.001. JIF 4.28
  • Edelstyn, N.M.J., Grange, J.A., Mayes, A.R.  & Ellis, S.J. (2016) A deficit in in familiarity-driven recognition following a right-sided mediodorsal thalamic lesion. Neuropsychology http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/neu0000226 JIF 3.29
  • Edelstyn, N.M.J., C.M. John, Shepherd, T.A., Drakeford, J.L., Clark-Carter, D., Ellis, S.J. & Mayes, A.R.  (2015) Evidence of an Amnesia-Like Recall/Recollection Impairment in Nondementing Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease. Cortex, 71, 85-101. JIF 4.28 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945215002257
  • Jenkinson, P.M., Edelstyn, N.M.J., Preston, C. & Ellis, S.J. (2015). Anarchic hand with abnormal agency following right inferior parietal lobe damage: a case report. Neurocase, 5, 1-8. DOI:10.1080/13554794.2014.925936
  • Edelstyn, N.M.J., Drakeford, J.L. & Ellis, S.J. (2014) Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s Disease: A hierarchy of impairments involving perception, source monitoring and reasoning. Austin Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/2064/1/ajpbs-v1-id1031.pdf
  • Jarvis, K., Reid, G., Hunter, S. & Edelstyn, N.M.J. (2014). Occupational Therapy Stroke Arm and Hand Record (OT-STAR): Development of an upper limb treatment schedule for Occupational Therapists working with stroke survivors. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 77 (3), 126-133. doi:10.4276/030802214X13941036266469


Memory Research 

  • Edelstyn, N.M.J., Grange, J.A., Mayes, A.R. & Ellis, S.J. (2016). A deficit in in familiarity-driven recognition following a right-sided mediodorsal thalamic lesion. Neuropsychology
  • Edelstyn, N.M.J., C.M. John, Shepherd, T.A., Drakeford, J.L., Clark-Carter, D., Ellis, S.J. & Mayes, A.R. (2015). Evidence of an Amnesia-Like Recall/Recollection Impairment in Nondementing Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease. Cortex, 71, 85-101.
  • Shepherd, T.A., Edelstyn, N.M.J., Mayes, A.R. & Ellis, S.J. (2013) Second Generation Dopamine Agonists and Recollection Impairments in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neuropsychology, 7, 284-305. DOI:10.1111/jnp.12025
  • Edelstyn, N.M.J., Mayes, A.R. & Ellis, S.J. (2013). Damage to the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus and intralaminar thalamic nuclei impairs attention in a patient with a right-sided Lesion. Neurocase, 18, DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2012.713497
  • Edelstyn, N.M.J., Mayes, A.R., Denby, C. & Ellis S.J. (2012). Material-specific memory impairment after damage to the Medial Thalamic Region. Journal of Neuropsychology, 6 (1), 119-140. DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-6653.2011.02019.x (Winner of JNP 2012 Best Paper Prize)

Psychopathologies of Belief

  • Moro, V., Pernigo, S., Tsakiris, M., Avesani, R., Edelstyn, N.M.J., Jenkinson, P. & Fotopoulou, A. (2016). Motor Versus Body Awareness: Voxel-based Lesion Analysis in Anosognosia for Hemiplegia and Somatoparaphrenia Following Right Hemisphere Stroke. Cortex doi: 10.1016/ j.cortex.2016.07.001.
  • Jenkinson, P.M., Edelstyn, N.M.J., Preston, C. & Ellis, S.J. (2015). Anarchic hand with abnormal agency following right inferior parietal lobe damage: a case report. Neurocase, 5, 1-8. DOI:10.1080/13554794.2014.925936
  • Edelstyn, N.M.J., Drakeford, J.L. & Ellis, S.J. (2014). Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s Disease: A hierarchy of impairments involving perception, source monitoring and reasoning. Austin Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioural ScienceOpen access.

Supervision

I am willing to supervise research involving the application of cognitive psychological theory and methods to address pertinent theoretical and clinical issues of societal and global significance.

I am currently particularly interested conducting research addressing the following topics:

  • The interface between perception and memory
  • Reward processing and cognitive control in healthy and clinical populations
  • Neuropsychiatric features in Parkinson’s
  • Metabolic syndrome and age-related mild cognitive impairment.

However, these topics are only indicative. Feel free to contact me with supervision queries regarding any topic/issue that you believe is relevant to examine from a cognitive  neuropsychological perspective.

I currently supervise three PhD students:

Alice Martini (primary supervisor, with Jim Grange) – Cognitive, Affective, Motivational and Functional and Structural Imaging Markers of Impulse control disorders in Parkinsons.

Jamie Adams (secondary supervisor, with Helen Williams) – The effect of encoding conditions on subjective states of recollection and familiarity in younger and older adults and amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

Zainab Alyobi  (secondary supervisor, with Sue Sherman) – The effects of sleep on false memory.

Aseel Aburub secondary supervisor, with Sue Hunter) – Aerobic exercise to improve cardiopulmonary function in people with Parkinson’s: a mixed method pilot study

Roles

  • Research Director and REF2021 Unit of Assessment Lead
  • Chair of Research Ethics Committee

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