Early detection
Sensitive cognitive markers for Alzheimer’s disease before conventional tests become decisive.
MisbindingSpatial memoryDigital tests
From subtle signals
to earlier answers.
Scientific vision
From population-level risk to decisions that matter for individual patients.
My goal is to build interpretable and accessible pathways that combine clinical judgement with digital cognitive phenotyping and the reach of data science.
Risk stratificationDigital phenotypeClinical validation
Academic profileClinical questions.
Clinical questions.
Quantitative answers.
Younes Adam Tabi is a physician and clinician scientist in neurology at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel. His work combines experimental cognitive neuroscience, digital assessment and population-scale health data to improve early detection and risk stratification in neurodegenerative disease.
Clinical NeurosciencesDPhil/PhD, University of Oxford
Medicine & NeurologyPhysician · specialist training in neurology
PsychologyBSc and MSc Psychology
Data ScienceMSc Data Science
Health ManagementMaster of Health Business Administration
EducationMA Education and Media
MethodsBayesian modelling · causal inference · EHR analytics · digital phenotyping
FundingDFG Clinician Scientist Programme · competitive scholarships and project funding
01 / Research focusBetter questions.
Better questions.
Connected evidence.
My work sits at the intersection of cognitive neurology, computational science and real-world clinical data.
Population intelligence
Real-world health data to identify risk groups, temporal patterns and clinically meaningful trajectories.
EHRRisk modellingCausal inference
Translational systems
Connecting cognition, imaging, genetics and microbiota in models designed to support real decisions.
MultimodalBayesianPrecision neurology
02 / Verified work
Publications & projects.
Peer-reviewed publications
Evidence from multifeature whole-report in visual short-term memory suggests that not all misbinding is swapping ↗
Younes Adam Tabi; Masud Husain; Sanjay Manohar
Scientific Reports 16, 16012
Autoimmune diseases are associated with increased neurodegenerative disease risk ↗
Younes Adam Tabi; Eva Christina Meyer
IBRO Neuroscience Reports 20, 596–608
Baseline psychiatric and neurological disorders predict Long Covid while the latter brings internalizing morbidity, female-skewed cerebrovascular risk, and more emergency visits ↗
Younes Adam Tabi; Eva Christina Meyer
Brain Disorders 22, 100317
Impaired consolidation of spatial memory during sleep in patients with leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1-associated limbic encephalitis ↗
Julius Rave; Annika Hanert; Younes Adam Tabi; Yasmin Fiedler; Sarah Philippen; Oliver Granert; Frank Leypoldt; Jan Born; Andrea Burgalossi; Robby Schönfeld; Carsten Finke; Thorsten Bartsch
Brain Communications, fcag255
Alcohol use disorder exacerbates clinical and vascular risks differentially in psychiatric disorders ↗
Eva Christina Meyer; Younes Adam Tabi
Alcohol 127
Differential impact of Cannabis abuse on neurological disorders ↗
Younes Adam Tabi; Eva Christina Meyer
Journal of the Neurological Sciences 474, 123527
Performance and validation of a digital memory test across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum ↗
Sofia Toniolo; Bahaaeddin Attaallah; Maria Raquel Maio; Younes Adam Tabi; Elitsa Slavkova; Verena Svenja Klar; Youssuf Saleh; Mohamad Imran Idris; Vicky Turner; Annie Srowig; Christopher Butler; Sian Thompson; Sanjay G. Manohar; Masud Husain
Brain Communications 7(1), fcaf024
Safety, tolerability, and efficacy outcomes of the Investigation of Levetiracetam in Alzheimer’s disease (ILiAD) study: a pilot, double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial ↗
Arjune Sen and collaborators, including Younes Tabi
Epilepsia Open
Clinical assessment of parietal lobe function ↗
Younes A. Tabi; Masud Husain
Practical Neurology
Effects of cholinesterase inhibition on attention and working memory in Lewy body dementias ↗
Sean James Fallon; Olivia Plant; Younes A. Tabi; Sanjay G. Manohar; Masud Husain
Brain Communications 5(4), fcad207
Vividness of visual imagery questionnaire scores and their relationship to visual short-term memory performance ↗
Younes Adam Tabi; Maria Raquel Maio; Bahaaeddin Attaallah; Shannon Dickson; Daniel Drew; Mohamad Imran Idris; Annika Kienast; Verena Klar; Lisa Nobis; Olivia Plant; Youssuf Saleh; Timothy Ravinder Sandhu; Elitsa Slavkova; Sofia Toniolo; Nahid Zokaei; Sanjay G. Manohar; Masud Husain
Cortex 146, 186–199
Impact of processing demands at encoding, maintenance and retrieval in visual working memory ↗
Younes Adam Tabi; Maria Raquel Maio; Sean James Fallon; Robert Udale; Shannon Dickson; Mohamad Imran Idris; Lisa Nobis; Sanjay G. Manohar; Masud Husain
Cognition 214, 104758
Recall cues interfere with retrieval from visuospatial working memory ↗
Younes Adam Tabi; Masud Husain; Sanjay G. Manohar
British Journal of Psychology 110(2), 288–305
Current projects
Remote tablet assessment combining object–location memory with risk modelling; pilot N=131 with planned scale-up.
Lifelines-based analysis of age-dependent cognitive performance in APOE groups.
Integration of cognitive phenotyping, imaging, stool and salivary microbiome data.
Federated EHR analysis linking sleep phenotypes with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lewy body and vascular dementia.
Complementary digital markers designed to capture dissociable cognitive and anatomical deficits.
Precision neurology should begin before the clinic has all the answers.
I am particularly interested in collaborations connecting longitudinal cohorts, digital biomarkers, multimodal data and clinically grounded validation.