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2026

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Overview

Alistair Burns is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and has published extensively in the field of medicine, with a focus on psychiatry, clinical psychology, geriatrics, and neurology. Their research primarily addresses dementia, cognitive impairment, and geriatric care, with significant contributions to the understanding of COVID-19's impact on mental health and long-term cognitive disorders.

Their body of work includes a number of frequently cited papers, such as:

  • Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission (2020, The Lancet)
  • Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission (2024, The Lancet)
  • Mild Cognitive Impairment: the Manchester consensus (2020, Age and Ageing)
  • Visual hallucinations in neurological and ophthalmological disease: pathophysiology and management (2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry)
  • Dementia wellbeing and COVID-19: Review and expert consensus on current research and knowledge gaps (2021, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry)

Their main research topics encompass:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

Frequent collaborative work includes partnerships with a number of noted researchers, specifically:

  • Sube Banerjee (24 joint publications)
  • Iracema Leroi (20 joint publications)
  • Robert Howard (16 joint publications)
  • Vanessa Lawrence (14 joint publications)
  • Gill Livingston (11 joint publications)

Their publications commonly appear in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (19 publications)
  • BMJ Open (4 publications)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia (4 publications)
  • The Lancet (3 publications)
  • BJPsych Advances (3 publications)

Alistair Burns' research spans several subfields, including psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, general health professions, geriatrics and gerontology, and neurology, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to improving understanding and care in aging and dementia-related conditions.

Best Publications

  • Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission.

    Gill Livingston;Gill Livingston;Jonathan Huntley;Andrew Sommerlad;Andrew Sommerlad;David Ames

  • Dementia prevention, intervention, and care

    Gill Livingston;Gill Livingston;Andrew Sommerlad;Vasiliki Orgeta;Sergi G Costafreda;Sergi G Costafreda

  • Consensus guidelines for the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) Report of the consortium on DLB international workshop

    I. G. Mckeith;D. Galasko;K. Kosaka;E. K. Perry

  • Vascular Cognitive Impairment

    John T O'Brien;Timo Erkinjuntti;Barry Reisberg;Gustavo Roman

  • Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

    Alistair Burns

  • Putting brain training to the test

    Adrian M. Owen;Adam Hampshire;Jessica A. Grahn;Robert Stenton

  • Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS). Research and development.

    J. K. Wing;A. S. Beevor;R. H. Curtis;S. B. G. Park

  • Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease.

    Robert Howard;Rupert McShane;James Lindesay;Craig Ritchie

  • The effects of donepezil in Alzheimer's disease - results from a multinational trial.

    A. Burns;M. Rossor;J. Hecker;S. Gauthier

  • Sertraline or mirtazapine for depression in dementia (HTA-SADD): a randomised, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Sube Banerjee;Jennifer Hellier;Michael Dewey;Renee Romeo

  • Alzheimer’s disease

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  • Core outcome measures for interventions to prevent or slow the progress of dementia for people living with mild to moderate dementia: Systematic review and consensus recommendations

    Lucy Webster;Derek Groskreutz;Anna Grinbergs-Saull Grinbergs-Saull;Rob Howard

  • Determinants of carer stress in Alzheimer's disease

    C. Donaldson;N. Tarrier;A. Burns

  • Psychiatric phenomena in Alzheimer's disease. I: Disorders of thought content.

    Alistair Burns;Robin Jacoby;Raymond Levy

  • Efficacy and Tolerability of Donepezil in Vascular Dementia Positive Results of a 24-Week, Multicenter, International, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial

    Sandra Black;Gustavo C. Román;David S. Geldmacher;Stephen Salloway

  • Effect of rivastigmine on delay to diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease from mild cognitive impairment: the InDDEx study.

    Howard H. Feldman;Steven Ferris;Bengt Winblad;Nikolaos Sfikas

  • The impact of the symptoms of dementia on caregivers.

    Catherine Donaldson;Nicholas Tarrier;Alistair Burns

  • Donepezil for the treatment of agitation in Alzheimer's disease

    Robert J. Howard;Edmund Juszczak;Clive G. Ballard;Peter Bentham

  • Effectiveness of cognitive—behavioural family intervention in reducing the burden of care in carers of patients with Alzheimer's disease

    Alison Marriott;Catherine Donaldson;Nicholas Tarrier;Alistair Burns

  • Psychiatric phenomena in Alzheimer's disease. II: Disorders of perception.

    Alistair Burns;Robin Jacoby;Raymond Levy

  • Psychiatric phenomena in Alzheimer's disease. III: Disorders of mood.

    Alistair Burns;Robin Jacoby;Raymond Levy

  • The Lewy-body variant of Alzheimer's disease : clinical and pathological findings

    Hans Förstl;Alistair Burns;Phil Luthert;Nigel Cairns

  • Observations on the brains of demented old people. B.E. Tomlinson, G. Blessed and M. Roth, Journal of the Neurological Sciences (1970) 11, 205–242; (1968) 7, 331–356

    Alistair Burns;Bernard Tomlinson;D.M.A. Mann

Frequent Co-Authors

David Challis
David Challis University of Nottingham
Robert Baldwin
Robert Baldwin London School of Economics and Political Science
Clive Ballard
Clive Ballard University of Exeter
Robert Howard
Robert Howard University College London
John T. O'Brien
John T. O'Brien University of Cambridge
Martin Knapp
Martin Knapp London School of Economics and Political Science
Hans Förstl
Hans Förstl Technical University of Munich
Sube Banerjee
Sube Banerjee Plymouth University
Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson Arizona State University
Clive Holmes
Clive Holmes University of Southampton

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