Director & Co-Director

Details about the Director and Co-Director of the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre.

Director

Professor John Starr

The Geriatric Medicine Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

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About John

Having graduated from Cambridge and London, John Starr came to Edinburgh as a research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry in 1989 to investigate the relationship between blood pressure and cognition.

After moving to become a research fellow in the Department of Medicine, he spent two years at the Hammersmith Hospital, London before returning as consultant and part-time Senior Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine based at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh.

Co-Director

Professor Ian J. Deary

Department of Psychology, 7 George Square, Edinburgh

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About Ian

Ian Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the Director of The University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (funded also by BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, and MRC). He graduated in Psychology and Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and studied there for his PhD.

He practised psychiatry in London and Edinburgh before moving to academic psychology. His principal research interests are: human mental abilities, especially the origins of cognitive differences, the effects of ageing and medical conditions on mental skills, the impact of cognitive differences on people's lives; and human persoanlity differences.