Dr Emma Russell
- Research Associate in Educational Inequalities (School of Social & Political Sciences)
Research interests
Research groups
Publications
2025
Mantyla, Mia, Russell, Emma, Zhu, Xingxing, McCabe, Thomas, Stewart, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582 and Lyall, Donald M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487
(2025)
Depression is both a risk factor for and outcome from traumatic brain injury in UK Biobank (N=502,356).
PsyArXiv,
(doi: 10.31234/osf.io/v74ks_v2)
Jareebi, M. A. et al. (2025) Associations and interactions between premorbid cognitive health, apolipoprotein e4 genotype, and incident Alzheimer’s disease in UK Biobank (N=252,340). npj Dementia, 1, 8. (doi: 10.1038/s44400-025-00013-3)
2024
Russell, Emma R., Lyall, Donald M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487, Mackay, Daniel F.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Cronin, Kirstie, Stewart, Katy, MacLean, John A., Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2024)
Health and lifestyle factors and dementia risk among former professional soccer players.
JAMA Network Open, 7(12),
e2449742.
(doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.49742)
(PMID:39652348)
Ward, J. et al. (2024) Head motion in the UK Biobank imaging subsample: longitudinal stability, associations with psychological and physical health, and risk of incomplete data. Brain Communications, 6(4), fcae220. (doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae220)
Lyall, Donald M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487, Russell, Emma R., Ward, Joey
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0951-8511 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2024)
A history of traumatic brain injury is associated with poorer cognition and imaging evidence of altered white matter tract integrity in UK Biobank (n = 50 376).
Brain Communications, 6(6),
fcae363.
(doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae363)
(PMID:39670110)
(PMCID:PMC11635360)
2023
Russell, Emma R., Spencer, S.J., Atherton, C.M., Lyall, D.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487, Mackay, D.F.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Stewart, K., MacLean, J.A., Pell, J.P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, W.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2023)
Increased risk of lower limb osteoarthritis among former professional soccer (football) players.
Occupational Medicine, 73(9),
pp. 547-553.
(doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqad132)
(PMID:38070190)
(PMCID:PMC10824258)
Stewart, W. et al. (2023) Risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in rugby union is associated with length of playing career. Acta Neuropathologica, 146(6), pp. 829-832. (doi: 10.1007/s00401-023-02644-3) (PMID:37872234) (PMCID:PMC10627955)
Russell, Emma R., Lyall, Donald M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2023)
HEalth And Dementia outcomes following Traumatic Brain Injury (HEAD-TBI): protocol for a retrospective cohort study.
BMJ Open, 13(7),
e073726.
(doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073726)
(PMID:37491097)
(PMCID:PMC10373748)
2022
Russell, Emma R., Mackay, Daniel F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Lyall, Donald
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487, Stewart, Katy, MacLean, John A., Robson, James, Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2022)
Neurodegenerative disease risk among former international rugby union players.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 93(12),
pp. 1262-1268.
(doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2022-329675)
(PMID:36195436)
2021
Russell, Emma R., Mackay, Daniel F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Stewart, Katy, MacLean, John A., Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2021)
Association of field position and career length with risk of neurodegenerative disease in male former professional soccer players.
JAMA Neurology, 78(9),
pp. 1057-1063.
(doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2021.2403)
(PMID:34338724)
(PMCID:PMC8329793)
Russell, Emma R., McCabe, Thomas and Stewart, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2021)
Not all adverse health outcomes in former contact sports athletes are concussion related.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 92(3),
p. 229.
(doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-324672)
(PMID:33188135)
2020
Russell, Emma R., McCabe, Thomas, Mackay, Daniel F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Stewart, Katy, MacLean, John A., Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2020)
Mental health and suicide in former professional soccer players.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 91(12),
pp. 1256-1260.
(doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-323315)
(PMID:32694163)
2019
Mackay, Daniel F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Russell, Emma R., Stewart, Katy, MacLean, John A., Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2019)
Neurodegenerative disease mortality among former professional soccer players.
New England Journal of Medicine, 381(19),
pp. 1801-1808.
(doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1908483)
(PMID:31633894)
Russell, Emma R., Stewart, Katy, Mackay, Daniel F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, MacLean, John, Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2019)
Football’s InfluencE on Lifelong health and Dementia risk (FIELD): protocol for a retrospective cohort study of former professional footballers.
BMJ Open, 9(5),
e028654.
(doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028654)
(PMID:31123003)
(PMCID:PMC6538057)
Articles
Mantyla, Mia, Russell, Emma, Zhu, Xingxing, McCabe, Thomas, Stewart, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582 and Lyall, Donald M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487
(2025)
Depression is both a risk factor for and outcome from traumatic brain injury in UK Biobank (N=502,356).
PsyArXiv,
(doi: 10.31234/osf.io/v74ks_v2)
Jareebi, M. A. et al. (2025) Associations and interactions between premorbid cognitive health, apolipoprotein e4 genotype, and incident Alzheimer’s disease in UK Biobank (N=252,340). npj Dementia, 1, 8. (doi: 10.1038/s44400-025-00013-3)
Russell, Emma R., Lyall, Donald M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487, Mackay, Daniel F.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Cronin, Kirstie, Stewart, Katy, MacLean, John A., Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2024)
Health and lifestyle factors and dementia risk among former professional soccer players.
JAMA Network Open, 7(12),
e2449742.
(doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.49742)
(PMID:39652348)
Ward, J. et al. (2024) Head motion in the UK Biobank imaging subsample: longitudinal stability, associations with psychological and physical health, and risk of incomplete data. Brain Communications, 6(4), fcae220. (doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae220)
Lyall, Donald M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487, Russell, Emma R., Ward, Joey
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0951-8511 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2024)
A history of traumatic brain injury is associated with poorer cognition and imaging evidence of altered white matter tract integrity in UK Biobank (n = 50 376).
Brain Communications, 6(6),
fcae363.
(doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae363)
(PMID:39670110)
(PMCID:PMC11635360)
Russell, Emma R., Spencer, S.J., Atherton, C.M., Lyall, D.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487, Mackay, D.F.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Stewart, K., MacLean, J.A., Pell, J.P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, W.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2023)
Increased risk of lower limb osteoarthritis among former professional soccer (football) players.
Occupational Medicine, 73(9),
pp. 547-553.
(doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqad132)
(PMID:38070190)
(PMCID:PMC10824258)
Stewart, W. et al. (2023) Risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in rugby union is associated with length of playing career. Acta Neuropathologica, 146(6), pp. 829-832. (doi: 10.1007/s00401-023-02644-3) (PMID:37872234) (PMCID:PMC10627955)
Russell, Emma R., Lyall, Donald M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2023)
HEalth And Dementia outcomes following Traumatic Brain Injury (HEAD-TBI): protocol for a retrospective cohort study.
BMJ Open, 13(7),
e073726.
(doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073726)
(PMID:37491097)
(PMCID:PMC10373748)
Russell, Emma R., Mackay, Daniel F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Lyall, Donald
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3850-1487, Stewart, Katy, MacLean, John A., Robson, James, Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2022)
Neurodegenerative disease risk among former international rugby union players.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 93(12),
pp. 1262-1268.
(doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2022-329675)
(PMID:36195436)
Russell, Emma R., Mackay, Daniel F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Stewart, Katy, MacLean, John A., Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2021)
Association of field position and career length with risk of neurodegenerative disease in male former professional soccer players.
JAMA Neurology, 78(9),
pp. 1057-1063.
(doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2021.2403)
(PMID:34338724)
(PMCID:PMC8329793)
Russell, Emma R., McCabe, Thomas and Stewart, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2021)
Not all adverse health outcomes in former contact sports athletes are concussion related.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 92(3),
p. 229.
(doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-324672)
(PMID:33188135)
Russell, Emma R., McCabe, Thomas, Mackay, Daniel F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Stewart, Katy, MacLean, John A., Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2020)
Mental health and suicide in former professional soccer players.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 91(12),
pp. 1256-1260.
(doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-323315)
(PMID:32694163)
Mackay, Daniel F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, Russell, Emma R., Stewart, Katy, MacLean, John A., Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2019)
Neurodegenerative disease mortality among former professional soccer players.
New England Journal of Medicine, 381(19),
pp. 1801-1808.
(doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1908483)
(PMID:31633894)
Russell, Emma R., Stewart, Katy, Mackay, Daniel F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-7098, MacLean, John, Pell, Jill P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8898-7035 and Stewart, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-2582
(2019)
Football’s InfluencE on Lifelong health and Dementia risk (FIELD): protocol for a retrospective cohort study of former professional footballers.
BMJ Open, 9(5),
e028654.
(doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028654)
(PMID:31123003)
(PMCID:PMC6538057)