Dr Andrew P Allen
Vising Research Fellow, IDS-TILDA and Including best practices and the voices of experience in developing post-diagnostic dementia support guidelines for people with an intellectual disability Qualifications: BA (Mod) (Psychology and Econmics), and MSc by Research (Psychology), Trinity College Dublin, and PhD (Psychology) from Cardiff University Research interests: ageing, cognition, mental health Email: apallen@tcd.ie Twitter: @ArchivePsychAndrew joined the IDS-TILDA team in March 2020 as Research Assistant. He has worked in research since 2012, at University College Cork, Maynooth University, and Trinity College Dublin. He has been at the coalface of research projects investigating various topics, including reminiscence and autobiographical memory, mental health in family dementia caregivers, and biological markers of treatment-resistant depression.
Andrew has authored numerous papers for peer-reviewed journals and has presented at numerous international and national conferences. He is active in peer review and editorial work, as well as public engagement. He is also interested in the psychology of creativity. He blogs about psychology at http://andrewspsychologyarchive.blogspot.com/
PublicationsAllen, A. P., Doyle, C., Commins, S., & Roche, R. A. (2018). Autobiographical memory, the ageing brain and mechanisms of psychological interventions. Ageing research reviews, 42, 100-111.
Allen, A. P., Curran, E. A., Duggan, Á., Cryan, J. F., Chorcorain, A. N., Dinan, T. G., ... & Clarke, G. (2017). A systematic review of the psychobiological burden of informal caregiving for patients with dementia: Focus on cognitive and biological markers of chronic stress. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 73, 123-164.
Allen, A. P., Naughton, M., Dowling, J., Walsh, A., Ismail, F., Shorten, G., ... & Clarke, G. (2015). Serum BDNF as a peripheral biomarker of treatment-resistant depression and the rapid antidepressant response: a comparison of ketamine and ECT. Journal of affective disorders, 186, 306-311.