ISSN: 2578-6490
Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director
Centre for Aging Research
Department of Psychology
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
Dr. Trevor J Crawford in 1984 completed his Ph.D research on the plasticity of human eye movements in the laboratory of Professor John Findlay at the University of Durham, UK. After a short spell working as an MRC research fellow, he was appointed to a post-doctoral research fellow at the Royal London Hospital in 1985, where he help to established one of Europe's leading neuro-opthalmology research laboratories, under Professor Kennard’s leadership. There he embarked on a detailed study of oculomotor control in Parkinson's disease. This work lead up to a programme of neuropsychological and brain imaging studies to develop biomarker for schizophrenia. In 1991 he was appointed as a research fellow in the faculty of Medicine at Imperial College (formerly Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School). During this time his primary research examined the role of the human frontal lobe in control of human action using a range of methodologies, including eye-tracking, functional brain imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation. In 1996 he was moved to University of Lancaster, where he established a new laboratory to develop biomarkers for neurodegenerative disorders. Over the last 15 years he have made a number of key discoveries on the nature of eye-tracking impairment in patients with dementia, that distinct from normal age-related changes. This work has lead to the Monitoring of dementia with eye movements (MODEM) project, a large collaborative study (Lancaster & Manchester Universities) to develop novel procedures and technology for the early detection of dementia in the home setting during naturalistic activities. Dr. Trevor J Crawford currently working as Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing Research at Lancaster University.
