HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Co-Leader of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) Omics & Neurobiology of Ageing Group, Dr Nady Braidy, has been awarded UNSW Sydney seed funding of $20,000 to continue his ground-breaking research in the field of stem cell… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
For the full image gallery, see Wipeout Dementia November 2018 Surf Off.
With people aged 65 and over set to comprise over 20% of the population within the next decade and dementia now the single greatest cause of disability in this… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
It was an engaged and enthusiastic audience that filled the auditorium at The Juniors yesterday, Wednesday, 31st October 2018, for the Aged Care Psychiatry Service, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District’s annual healthy ageing forum… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Dr Matt Paradise is the 2018 recipient of the Josh Woolfson Memorial Scholarship which supports research looking at modifiable risk factors of Alzheimer’s disease to identify and target at-risk groups and individuals and develop… Read More
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HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Over the 5th and 6th September, UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), hosted the International Centenarian Consortium Annual 2018 Conference at the Hydro Majestic in Sydney’s… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Colliers International Residential has raised over $70,000 for the Wipeout Dementia campaign led by the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney at their annual Residential Developer’s charity event held on Friday, 7 September… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Today is World Alzheimer’s Day. With a person somewhere in the world developing dementia every 3 seconds, CHeBA’s Co-Directors Professor Perminder Sachdev and Professor Henry Brodaty encourage everyone to assist in the global effort to… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
There are more centenarians – people who live beyond 100 years of age – than ever before. Up until 1990, the world was to home to only 100,000 centenarians, which increased to nearly half a million by 2015. A global fascination in… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
A world first study defining the global prevalence of dementia in people aged 95-110, led by the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney was reported at the 2018 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Chicago on… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Co-Directors of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney, Professors Perminder Sachdev and Henry Brodaty are pleased to announce their involvement in an Australian Dementia Network (ADNet) that was recently launched to… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
A group of Sydney’s senior executives, which included Warringah Federal Liberal MP Tony Abbott, competed in ‘Wipeout Dementia’ at Queenscliff beach on Saturday to raise funds for research at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA),… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Researchers at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney have developed an innovative piece of software which will promote research in cerebral small vessel disease and assist in the early identification of those at… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
On April 4, 2018, the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Medicine, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Renji Hospital, Shanghai to establish the Renji UNSW CHeBA Neurocognitive Centre (RUCNC). The Renji Hospital,… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
A collaborative study between researchers at the Department of Aged Care, St George Hospital, Calvary Health Care and UNSW Medicine’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) has developed an intervention for nursing home residents… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
(Pictured L-R: Professor Perminder Sachdev AM, John Teer, Ita Buttrose AO OBE, Professor Henry Brodaty AO, Richard Grellman AM)
How can we confront dementia, the greatest public health challenge in Australia? Understanding modifiable risk… Read More
