Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing

With dementia impacting 55 million people globally, this initiative from UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) will promote the importance of modifiable lifestyle factors.

Professor Perminder Sachdev has been awarded $3 million to lead a team to improve our understanding of vascular dementia.

Dr Nady Braidy has been awarded the NHMRC Investigator Grant to develop a new dementia strategy.

Dr Adith Mohan at CHeBA, UNSW Sydney, has been awarded a Mindgardens Neuroscience Network Translational Research Grant.

Researchers have revealed new insight into the connection between nutrition and depression in adults aged 45 years and older.

An improved neuroimaging measure which will assist in monitoring brain changes seen in Vascular dementias and Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers have offered renewed insight into ‘Quantum dot’ research, revealing its promising application in Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and therapy.

A research collaboration has retrospectively reviewed the effectiveness of Special Dementia Care Programmes for people with very severe dementia symptoms.

Latest research from UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) has uncovered new insight into the underlying mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease.

Internationally renowned experts acknowledge that a standard assessment for individuals presenting with cognitive difficulty is an international priority.

Professor Lynn Chenoweth has been awarded $536,000 as one of five World Class Research Project Grants by the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration (DCRC).

Dementia prevention needs to be Australia’s next public health area of focus, according to a Perspective published today.

Researchers at CHeBA Dr Suraj Samtani and Dr Simone Reppermund have won the highly competitive Dementia Australia Research Foundation grants.

Researchers at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney have the need for clearer definitions of ‘happiness’, ‘life satisfaction’ and ‘positive affect’ in centenarians.

A dietary supplement may represent a novel strategy for the treatment and/or prevention of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.

CHeBA researchers have pinpointed mechanisms to reduce loneliness and improve social participation and belonging for people with dementia.

CHeBA Co-Director, Professor Henry Brodaty, along with an international research, has been awarded $400,000 to strengthen professional collaboration in dementia caregiver education and research.

A six-year study of older Australians in CHeBA’s Sydney Memory and Ageing Study has uncovered an Australian-first association between the impact of hearing loss on cognitive abilities and increased risk for dementia.