Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (95)

Consensus on items and quantities of clinical equipment required to deal with a mass casualties big bang incident: a national Delphi study (2014)
Journal Article
Duncan, E. A. S., Colver, K., Dougall, N., Swingler, K., Stephenson, J., & Abhyankar, P. (2014). Consensus on items and quantities of clinical equipment required to deal with a mass casualties big bang incident: a national Delphi study. BMC Emergency Medicine, 14(5), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-227X-14-5

Background: Major short-notice or sudden impact incidents, which result in a large number of casualties, are rare events. However health services must be prepared to respond to such events appropriately. In the United Kingdom (UK), a mass casualties... Read More about Consensus on items and quantities of clinical equipment required to deal with a mass casualties big bang incident: a national Delphi study.

The epidemiology of hospital treated traumatic brain injury in Scotland. (2014)
Journal Article
Shivaji, T., Lee, A., Dougall, N., McMillan, T., & Stark, C. (2014). The epidemiology of hospital treated traumatic brain injury in Scotland. BMC Neurology, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-14-2

Background Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is an important global public health problem made all the more important by the increased likelihood of disability following a hospital admission for TBI. Understanding those groups most at risk will help in... Read More about The epidemiology of hospital treated traumatic brain injury in Scotland..

Evaluation of the Scottish Recovery Indicator 2 (SRI 2) (2013)
Report
MacGregor, A., Reid, S., Maxwell, M., Miller, I., Macleod, S., Corbett, J., …Harris, F. (2013). Evaluation of the Scottish Recovery Indicator 2 (SRI 2). Edinburgh: Scottish Recovery Network

Executive summary The Scottish Recover Indicator (SRI) is a web based service development tool designed by the Scottish Recovery Network to support and develop recovery focused approaches in Scottish mental health services (www.sri2.net). The Sc... Read More about Evaluation of the Scottish Recovery Indicator 2 (SRI 2).

Reviewing long-term antidepressants can reduce drug burden: a prospective observational cohort study (2012)
Journal Article
Johnson, C. F., Macdonald, H. J., Atkinson, P., Buchanan, A. I., Downes, N., & Dougall, N. (2012). Reviewing long-term antidepressants can reduce drug burden: a prospective observational cohort study. British Journal of General Practice, 62(604), 773-779. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp12x658304

BACKGROUND: Antidepressant prescribing continues to rise. Contributing factors are increased long-term prescribing and possibly the use of higher selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) doses. AIM: To review general practice patients prescr... Read More about Reviewing long-term antidepressants can reduce drug burden: a prospective observational cohort study.

α4β2-Nicotinic Receptor Binding with 5-IA in Alzheimer’s Disease: Methods of Scan Analysis (2007)
Journal Article
Terrière, E., Sharman, M., Donaghey, C., Herrmann, L., Lonie, J., Strachan, M., Dougall, N., Best, J., Ebmeier, K. P., Pimlott, S., Patterson, J., & Wyper, D. (2008). α4β2-Nicotinic Receptor Binding with 5-IA in Alzheimer’s Disease: Methods of Scan Analysis. Neurochemical research, 33(4), 643-651. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11064-007-9517-4

Five patients with Alzheimer's disease and five healthy volunteers were examined by SPECT with the nicotinic receptor ligand 123I-5-IA-85380. Patients were scanned before and after 6 weeks of treatment with donepezil. Quantification by regions of int... Read More about α4β2-Nicotinic Receptor Binding with 5-IA in Alzheimer’s Disease: Methods of Scan Analysis.

Cerebral metabolism, brain imaging (2007)
Book Chapter
Klaus, E., Claire, D. & Dougall, N. (2007). Cerebral metabolism, brain imaging. . In . Encyclopedia of Stress. 432-38. (2nd). Elsevier. . ISBN 9780120885039.

Neuroimaging in Dementia (2005)
Book Chapter
Ebmeier, K., Donaghey, C., & Dougall, N. (2005). Neuroimaging in Dementia. In Neuroimaging, Part B, 43-72. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/s0074-7742(05)67002-x

Neuroimaging is used in basic clinical research for diagnostic purposes, or using dementia as a paradigm for local brain lesions to examine normal and disturbed cognitive performance and brain function in parallel. This chapter prevents a summary of... Read More about Neuroimaging in Dementia.

Global cognitive impairment should be taken into account in SPECT–neuropsychology correlations: the example of verbal memory in very mild Alzheimer’s disease. (2005)
Journal Article
Rodriguez, G., Morbelli, S., Brugnolo, A., Calvini, P., Girtler, N., Piccardo, A., …Nobili, F. (2005). Global cognitive impairment should be taken into account in SPECT–neuropsychology correlations: the example of verbal memory in very mild Alzheimer’s disease. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 32. (10). 1186-1192. doi:10.1007/s00259-005-1831-y. ISSN 1619-7070.

Purpose: To examine the impact of severity of global cognitive impairment on SPECT-neuropsychology correlations, we correlated a verbal memory test with brain perfusion in patients with very mild Alzheimer's disease (AD), taking into account the Mini... Read More about Global cognitive impairment should be taken into account in SPECT–neuropsychology correlations: the example of verbal memory in very mild Alzheimer’s disease..

Bipolar Affective Disorder - A national clinical guideline (2005)
Report
Ebmeier, K., Baig, B., Brown, A., Cavanagh, J., Clark, S., Davidson, K., …Wilson, L. (2005). Bipolar Affective Disorder - A national clinical guideline. Edinburgh: Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

A national clinical guideline - SIGN.

Systematic Review of the Diagnostic Accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in Dementia (2004)
Journal Article
Dougall, N. J. (2004). Systematic Review of the Diagnostic Accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in Dementia. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 12(6), 554-570. doi:10.1176/appi.ajgp.12.6.554

bjective: The authors sought to determine the diagnostic accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in discriminating between Alzheimer disease (AD) and other dementias. Methods: Articles published between 1985 and 2002 were retrieved systematically from MEDLI... Read More about Systematic Review of the Diagnostic Accuracy of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT in Dementia.

Predicting the accuracy of a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease with 99mTc HMPAO single photon emission computed tomography. (2004)
Journal Article
Dougall, N., Nobili, F. & Ebmeier, K. P. (2004). Predicting the accuracy of a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease with 99mTc HMPAO single photon emission computed tomography. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 131. (2). 157-168. doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2003.11.001. ISSN 0925-4927.

The current clinical practice of reporting images obtained with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with 99mTc-d,l-hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (99mTc HMPAO) images was examined by having 16 experts evaluate the appearance of SPECT... Read More about Predicting the accuracy of a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease with 99mTc HMPAO single photon emission computed tomography..

Voxel-Based Approaches in Clinical Imaging (2003)
Book Chapter
Ebmeier, K., Darcourt, J., Dougall, N., Glabus, M., Herholz, K., Koulibaly, P., Migneco, O., Pupi, A., Nobili, F., Robert, P., Rodriguez, G., & Scheidhauer, K. (2003). Voxel-Based Approaches in Clinical Imaging. In SPECT in Dementia; Advances in Biological Psychiatry (72-85). Karger Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1159/000073167

Voxel-Based Approaches in Clinical Imaging.

Brain Behaviour Relationships in Dementia (Neuropsychology) (2003)
Book Chapter
Sutherland, J., Dougall, N., & Ebmeier, K. (2003). Brain Behaviour Relationships in Dementia (Neuropsychology). In SPECT in Dementia; Advances in Biological Psychiatry, 38-50. Karger Publishers. doi:10.1159/000073164

Statistical parametric mapping of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT images for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: normalizing to cerebellar tracer uptake. (2002)
Journal Article
Soonawala, D., Amin, T., Ebmeier, K. P., Steele, J. D., Dougall, N. J., Best, J., …Scheidhauer, K. (2002). Statistical parametric mapping of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT images for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: normalizing to cerebellar tracer uptake. NeuroImage. 17. (3). 1193-1202. doi:10.1006/nimg.2002.1259. ISSN 1053-8119.

Background: for a quantitative comparison of images obtained during 99mTc-hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (HMPAO) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), brain activity values are usually normalized to a reference region. In studies of Al... Read More about Statistical parametric mapping of 99mTc-HMPAO-SPECT images for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: normalizing to cerebellar tracer uptake..

A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of tacrine in patients with Alzheimer's disease using SPET (1996)
Journal Article
Prentice, N., Van Beck, M., Dougall, N. J., Moffoot, A. P. R., O'Carroll, R. E., Goodwin, G. M., & Ebmeier, K. P. (1996). A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of tacrine in patients with Alzheimer's disease using SPET. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 10(3), 175-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/026988119601000301

Background: the effect of single-dose and long-term cholinergic enhancement with tacrine on regional cerebral perfusion was examined in patients with Alzheimer's disease using single-photon emission tomography (SPET). Method: 23 patients with probabl... Read More about A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of tacrine in patients with Alzheimer's disease using SPET.

The neuropsychiatric sequelae of mercury poisoning. The Mad Hatter's disease revisited (1995)
Journal Article
O'Carroll, R. E., Masterton, G., Dougall, N., Ebmeier, K. P., & Goodwin, G. M. (1995). The neuropsychiatric sequelae of mercury poisoning. The Mad Hatter's disease revisited. British Journal of Psychiatry, 167(1), 95-98. doi:10.1192/bjp.167.1.95

BACKGROUND The detailed effects of mercury poisoning on cognitive function, brain anatomy and regional brain function are largely unknown. We report the case of a 38-year-old man who was exposed to toxic levels of inorganic mercury. METHOD Four ye... Read More about The neuropsychiatric sequelae of mercury poisoning. The Mad Hatter's disease revisited.

Uptake of99mTc-exametazime shown by single photon emission computerized tomography in obsessive-compulsive disorder compared with major depression and normal controls (1994)
Journal Article
Edmonstone, Y., Austin, M., Prentice, N., Dougall, N., Freeman, C. P. L., Ebmeier, K. P. & Goodwin, G. M. (1994). Uptake of99mTc-exametazime shown by single photon emission computerized tomography in obsessive-compulsive disorder compared with major depression and normal controls. Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. 90. (4). 298-303. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1994.tb01597.x. ISSN 0001-690X.

Twelve patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were investigated at rest using single photon emission computerized tomography with 99mTc-exametazime. The uptake of 99mTc-exametazime was expressed relative to calcarine/occipital cortex. Pati... Read More about Uptake of99mTc-exametazime shown by single photon emission computerized tomography in obsessive-compulsive disorder compared with major depression and normal controls.