Dr Cristian Leyton Moscoso
BMed USACH, GradDip Neuro PUC, PhD UNSW.
NHMRC/ARC Dementia Development Research Fellow
Member of the Charles Perkins Centre
C43S - S Block Cumberland Campus
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
In 2013, Dr Cristian Leyton completed his PhD at the University of New South Wales, Australia. In 2014, he was funded by the University of Sydney postdoctoral fellowship and appointed at the Faculty of Health Sciences. In 2016, he was awarded a Dementia Research Development Fellowship, a scheme co-funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council and Australia Research Council. As a part of the international component, he conducted postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, between 2016 and 2017.
His research focuses on primary progressive aphasia, a fast-growing field that concerns with progressive language disturbances caused by neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease. His methods integrate clinical and neuropsychological findings with neuroimaging, biomarkers and pathological information. By relating language deficits with the distribution of brain atrophy and specific pathologies, his goal is to understand mechanisms of selective neural vulnerability, emergency of cognitive deficits and disease progression.
Research interests
- Neurocognition of language
- Dementia
- Alzheimer's disease
- Frontotemporal Dementias
- Logopenic aphasia
- Primary Progressive Aphasia
- Neuroimaging
- Biomarkers
Current projects
Disentangling language deficits in Alzheimer's disease
Associations
- International Society for Frontotemporal Dementia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders. Sydney, Australia.
- American Academy of Neurology
Selected grants
2016
- Disentangling aphasic syndromes in Alzheimer's disease; Leyton C; National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowships.
2014
- Differentiation and treatment for nonfluent variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia; Leyton C, Ballard K; DVC Research/Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme.
Selected publications
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