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Maintain Your Brain Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA)

Maintain Your Brain is a randomised controlled trial of multiple online interventions designed to target modifiable risk factors for dementia in general and AD in particular. Risk factors to be … See more

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Digital Health Intervention to Maintain Your Brain

WEBMaintain Your Brain (MYB) is a randomised controlled trial of an online multi-modal lifestyle intervention targeting these modifiable dementia risk factors with the primary aim being to reduce cognitive decline in people aged 55-77 years. “The people in our trial are young enough to be able to prevent the accumulation of more pathology in

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Does Social Interaction Reduce Risk of Dementia

WEBPrevious research has reported that the strength of the association between poor social interaction (low social participation, less contact, more loneliness) and dementia is comparable to that of other well-known risk factors including depression, low physical activity, and low level of education 10.Our findings indicate that poor social engagement …

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Positive Ageing Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA)

WEBSimple, incremental lifestyle changes can have a significant impact on brain health at any age and we encourage all Australians to participate in championing healthy brain ageing. With cardiovascular health a crucial factor in brain health, CHeBA proudly promoted positive ageing in the 2014 City 2 Surf with team members in their 60s, 70s …

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Research Indicates People 95+ Have Greater Life Satisfaction Than

WEBHEIDI DOUGLASS | [email protected] Researchers from UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) have explored the level of life satisfaction of near centenarians and centenarians to gain better understanding of ways to enhance the wellbeing of people with exceptional longevity.. This project is the largest …

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Healthy life expectancy across Australia on the rise as latest global

WEBHEIDI DOUGLASS | [email protected] The latest global disease estimates, published in The Lancet, reveal a perfect storm of rising chronic diseases and public health failures fuelling the COVID-19 pandemic.. Healthy life expectancy in Australia and New Zealand - the number of years a person can expect to live in good health - has …

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Neuropsychiatry Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA)

WEBAbout the Neuropsychiatry Research Group CHeBA Neuropsychiatry, in partnership with the Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI), is at the forefront of research into neuropsychiatric disorders internationally. The NPI is a clinical academic facility of The Prince of Wales Hospital, a UNSW Sydney teaching hospital, and is part of the Mental Health Program …

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Optimising social health to defeat dementia Centre for Healthy …

WEBUnder this new research group, CHeBA will conduct a systematic review of social determinants for dementia and ageing, develop interventions for loneliness and social isolation in older people, and create a data linkage project of the social determinants of dementia in Australia through the National Integrated Health Services Information (NIHSI).

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Sydney Memory and Ageing Study

WEBThe Sydney Memory and Ageing Study (MAS), is one of Australia’s largest and longest running studies of ageing and cognitive health. MAS began in 2005 with the aims of investigating rates and predictors of healthy cognitive ageing, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia in older Australians. Over the last 14 years, MAS has collected …

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Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men

WEBHence, a major reason for women living longer than men is at the genetic level. And an obvious and major difference at the genetic level for women is that they have two X Chromosomes whereas men only have one X chromosome. The second major difference is in the hormones themselves. Women have oestrogen as a major hormone through their …

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High blood pressure’s impact on white matter could be key to …

WEBHEIDI DOUGLASS | [email protected] A Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) study provides compelling evidence for clinical practice to direct efforts toward preventing white matter damage in individuals with hypertension, to protect against cognitive decline and dementia.

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Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA)

WEBUpholding healthcare standards. New research insights into interventions for people living with dementia, during hospitalisation.

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News Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA)

WEBFunding Success to Investigate Brain Microbiome. 19 February 2024. HEIDI DOUGLASS | [email protected] For the first time, UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) will consider the role of the brain microbiome in promoting health and the prevention of cognitive decline and dementia, thanks to a $90,000 grant …

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New Clinic Transforms Life of 21 Year Old Centre for Healthy …

WEB21-year-old Grace Corkhill has found a new lease on life after being assessed and treated in a New South Wales-first tertiary clinical program for her diagnosis of functional neurological disorder, known as FND. Grace, who lives in regional New South Wales, had a cerebral artery aneurysmal rupture in 2013 which caused a stroke.

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São Paulo Ageing & Health Study

WEB2072 individuals aged 65+ years. Assessment Schedule: 2-year interval (one follow-up in 2005) Measures: (1) Neuropsychiatric assessments of dementia, MCI, and cognitive decline; (2) Assessments of other mental disorders; (3) Broad range of sociodemographic, lifestyle and cardiac, physical and mental health factors; (4) Assessments of migraine

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Mindgardens Functional Neurological Disorders (FND) Clinic

WEB21 year old Grace Corkhill lives with functional neurological disorder (FND), a legacy of a childhood health crisis. In the video above Grace talks about her experience: how FND had left her isolated and fearful before a referral to the multidisciplinary Mindgardens FND Clinic in Sydney; how attending the clinic got her mental and physical health back on track; …

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Monongahela-Youghiogheny Healthy Aging Team (MYHAT)

WEBPrincipal Investigator Mary Ganguli, MD, MPH, FRCP(C) Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Email: [email protected] Data Contact Erin Jacobsen Email: [email protected]

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LRGS TUA: Neuroprotective Model for Healthy Longevity among …

WEBPrincipal Investigator Professor Suzana Shahar Community Rehabilitation and Aging Research Centre Faculty of Health Sciences Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz 43000 Kuala Lumpur Email: [email protected] Data Contact Suzana Shahar Email: [email protected]

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Shanghai Aging Study Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA)

WEB3141 individuals aged 60+ years. Assessment Schedule: Baseline and 4-year follow-up. Measures: (1) Sociodemographic data and lifestyle, including diet; (2) Medical history; (3) Neuropsychological test battery; (4) Clinical interview and neurological examination; (5) Physical measurements, blood and urine samples, APOE genotyping; (6) Anxiety

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