Samrah Ahmed

Dr. Samrah Ahmed is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Reading, affiliated with the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. She leads the Brain Health and Dementia Lab, focusing on clinical characterization of dementia syndromes such as Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. Her work integrates neuropsychological assessments and neuroimaging to identify disease subtypes and develop diagnostic tools. Key research areas include phenotyping dementia syndromes, tracking disease progression, and studying cognitive risk markers in APOE ε4 carriers. She holds roles as Academic Lead for Reading NeuroAge and Research Lead for the Acquired Neurological Disorders Group.

Her research emphasizes refining diagnostic accuracy through detailed clinical phenotyping and identifying biomarkers for therapeutic interventions. Current projects include investigating non-visual symptoms in posterior cortical atrophy and longitudinal cognitive changes in at-risk populations. Dr. Ahmed's email is samrah.ahmed@reading.ac.uk.