HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Dr Louise Mewton, UNSW Scientia Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney, has been awarded close to $600,000 to uncover exciting new avenues in dementia prevention. The world-first research, funded by a… Read More
The Australian Mental Health Prize is awarded annually to an Australian who has made outstanding contributions to the field of mental health.
CHeBA's Co-Directors Professor Henry Brodaty and Professor Perminder Sachdev, both members of the Prize Advisory Board, encourage… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Researchers from the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration (DCRC) and the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW Sydney have highlighted a critical need to address non-consensual and overly lengthy use of antipsychotics in… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Co-Director of UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), Professor Perminder Sachdev AM, has been awarded a $3.289 million National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant to develop robust biomarkers… Read More
People with Type 2 diabetes, but not those with prediabetes, had worse cognitive performance three to six months after a stroke than those with normal fasting blood sugar levels, according to new research led by UNSW's Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) published today in… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Research led by Dr Katya Numbers from UNSW’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) has shown that certain presentations of memory concerns by older adults are predictive of future dementia.
The findings published today in PLOS ONE… Read More
Researchers from the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration (DCRC) at UNSW Sydney have shown that non-pharmacological approaches can not only reduce behaviours and psychological symptoms associated with dementia (BPSD*), but also that they are cost-effective.
The… Read More
An international collaboration between the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) and Beihang University in China has researched differential longitudinal changes in structural complexity and volumetric measures in community-dwelling older individuals.
The research analysed… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
World-first research led by neuroimaging expert Dr Jiyang Jiang at UNSW’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) has found that those aged 95 and over demonstrated more activation between the left and ride side of their brain than their… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
As the Australian population ages, rapid and early detection of cognitive impairment and dementia will be of increasing benefit in reducing costs and improving health outcomes for older persons. To diagnose dementia early, individuals are… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
A major international collaboration using data from two UNSW Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) studies, the Sydney Memory & Ageing Study and the Older Australian Twins Study, has produced the first genetic map of the cerebral… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Research led by Dr Matt Paradise at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney, has developed a rating scale to better understand the effects of certain aspects of cerebrovascular disease and its association with dementia. … Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Dr Karen Mather, Leader of the Genetics & Epigenomics Group at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney, has been awarded a $100,000 Rebecca Cooper Grant to research the molecular processes underlying brain ageing.… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Clarifying the relationship between alcohol use and dementia is just one of 19 new projects that will share $1.5 million in grants to conduct ground-breaking dementia research.
Dr Louise Mewton from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
45 heavy hitters from across Australia’s property industry have led the most successful Wipeout Dementia to date, raising over $200,000 for dementia research at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney.
The Surf Off event… Read More