Sharon Abrahams, Ph.D, D.Clin.Psy is a Professor of Neuropsychology and a Clinical Neuropsychologist at the University of Edinburgh. She began working with Motor Neurone Disease in 1993 as a postdoctoral neuropsychologist with Profs Nigel Leigh and Laura Goldstein at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. She has worked as a clinical neuropsychologist since having qualified in 1998, and specialises in the assessment of adults with dementia and neurodegenerative disease.  She moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2004 and is one of the founding members of the Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research.

She has over 150 research publications with an H index of 62. Together with colleagues in Edinburgh she developed The Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS) a brief assessment now routinely used internationally, translated into 24 languages and incorporated as an outcome measure in clinical trials (https://ecas.psy.ed.ac.uk/). She is Associate Editor of the journal Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration. Her research focuses on cognitive, behavioural and cerebral changes in adults with neurodegenerative disease.