Leonard P Ullmann (Picasso) Chair, Charles Perkins Centre; Director, Healthy Brain Ageing Program, Brain & Mind Centre, Chief Investigator NHMRC @SIESTASynergy
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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.
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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:
Great presentation today at the AAIC2025 Sensory Abnormalities in Dementia Featured Research Session by amazing @AlexBaharFuchs on Olfactory Impairment in Dementia 👏👏
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
@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
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 😊
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 😊
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
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!
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
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