Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA

Leonard P Ullmann (Picasso) Chair, Charles Perkins Centre; Director, Healthy Brain Ageing Program, Brain & Mind Centre, Chief Investigator NHMRC @SIESTASynergy

[Australian Dementia Network - ADNeT @ADNeT_Australia]

Important report now available from @AlzDisInt on the importance of #dementia rehabilitation

[GeroScience @GeroScienceAGE]

🎶🧠 New in GeroScience – Open 🔓Access!

The associations between playing a musical instrument and grey matter in older adults at risk for dementia: a whole-brain VBM analysis by Nicole Espinosa & Sharon L. Naismith (@Prof_Naismith) et al.

Findings suggest that playing a musical instrument may be linked to preserved grey matter volume in key brain regions, offering potential protective effects against dementia risk.

🔓 Read the full article here: https://t.co/h6Dyn3pZmH

#dementia #aging #brainhealth #musictherapy #cognitivereserve #GeroScience

[Simon Lewis @profsimonlewis]

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[Dr. Zoe Menczel Schrire @zoemschrire]

What a week at #AAIC25! Grateful to be an #ISTAART ambassador, witness the powerful #SLEEPPIA panel, & see @Prof_Naismith spotlight sleep in dementia research—w/ a shoutout to my melatonin trial! Thanks, #ISTAART! 🎉 Watch the wrap video below:

[Hamid Sohrabi (Personal Views) @HamidRSohrabi]

Great presentation today at the AAIC2025 Sensory Abnormalities in Dementia Featured Research Session by amazing ⁦⁦@AlexBaharFuchs⁩ on Olfactory Impairment in Dementia 👏👏

[Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA @Prof_Naismith]

@AzadehFeizpour Thank you Azadeh! @SIESTASynergy

[Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA @Prof_Naismith]

Thanks so much Hamid! Good to see you from afar!

[Hamid Sohrabi (Personal Views) @HamidRSohrabi]

Fantastic Plenary Speech by
@Prof_Naismith⁩ on “Waking Up to the Importance of Sleep in MCI and AD”!
#AAIC25

[Australian Dementia Research Forum 2025 @ADRF2025]

Wonderful plenary session today at #AAIC25 with @Prof_Naismith on the importance of sleep in #dementia

[Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA @Prof_Naismith]

@alzassociation So excited to be talking about sleep today! Thank you for the opportunity to showcase all the wonderful work in our field @BrainMind_Usyd @CPC_usyd @SIESTASynergy @UsydPsych

[Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA @Prof_Naismith]

A whole issue on sleep, clocks and dementia! Delighted to be a guest editor! Calling for submissions! @ISTAART @SIESTASynergy @SleepPIA

[Yue Leng @YueLengsleep]

Dreaming of publishing your #sleep & circadian work in @alzdemjournals? 🧠💤Now’s your chance. Thrilled to guest edit this special issue with @ErikMusiek @Prof_Naismith and Brendan Lucey. Don't snooze on the deadline! @alzassociation @ResearchSleep @SleepPIA @UCSFmac 👇

[Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA @Prof_Naismith]

Proud to receive the @ADNeT_Australia Mid-Career Award presented by Ralph Martins at the closing of #ADRF2025! 🥂🎉 A shout out & thanks to my team @HBAProgram_USYD, @ian_hickie @BrainMind_Usyd @UsydPsych @Sydney_Science @CPC_usyd.

[Australian Dementia Research Forum 2025 @ADRF2025]

Dr Elie Matar on Sleep Complaints. Sleep disorders are common in dementia & neurodegeneration which is important with evidence of higher rates of apathy, aggression & caregiver burden, while lowering functional status, quality of life & cognitive performance. @DrElieMatar

[Australian Dementia Research Forum 2025 @ADRF2025]

@Prof_Naismith is up to educate us about how sleep is a risk for dementia with 50% of older adults have chronic sleep complaints. Functions of sleep has links with our cardiovascular disease, neurogenesis and in synaptic strength. #ADRF2025

[Rachael @RachaelYu23]

So honoured to have been invited to present for the Basic Science Symposium at #ADRF2025 this year held in Perth🔬🧠

Thank you so much to my supervisors @Prof_Naismith @ShawnKong11 & Joe Michaelian for all the support 😊

[Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA @Prof_Naismith]

You were awesome Rachael! Well done!

[Rachael @RachaelYu23]

So honoured to have been invited to present for the Basic Science Symposium at #ADRF2025 this year held in Perth🔬🧠

Thank you so much to my supervisors @Prof_Naismith @ShawnKong11 & Joe Michaelian for all the support 😊

[Australian Dementia Research Forum 2025 @ADRF2025]

Cognitive fluctuations are found in 90% of patients with DLB - marked by variation in cognition, changes in alertness and arousal, no objective biomarkers and dysfunction can occur in multiple networks over multiple time scales. #ADRF2025

[Australian Dementia Network - ADNeT @ADNeT_Australia]

A quick panel discussion before lunch on Day 1 of #ADRF2025. Great to see our expert panelists and the various work of ADNeT garner lots of interesting Q&A’s!

[Dr. Zoe Menczel Schrire @zoemschrire]

See you at poster 10 to learn about all things #NeuroMusic! 🧠 🎵 #ADRF25
@HBAProgram_USYD

[Australian Dementia Network - ADNeT @ADNeT_Australia]

Our 3rd Lifetime Achievement Awards winner is Prof Constance Dimity Pond- a clinician- researcher, Prof Pond has been a pioneering figure in strengthening dementia diagnosis and care with general practice and primary care. 🎉#ADRF2025

[Australian Dementia Network - ADNeT @ADNeT_Australia]

Next up we have @ADNeT_Australia Integrated Intiatives Shaping the Future of Dementia Diagnosis and Care. Prof Sharon Naismith explains the impact of hybrid virtual memory clinics in Aus to help provide multidisciplinary services to regional areas. @Prof_Naismith #ADRF2025