CCACE special guest St Andrews Day seminar will be given by Professor Paul Matthews OBE, Associate Director UK Dementia Research Institute, Imperial College London.
Tuesday 28th November, 5.15pm followed by a drinks reception. Please note the slightly later start time.
Room F21, Department of Psychology, 7 George Square.
Title: Using large population-based studies to understand age-related changes in cognition
Abstract: Healthy brain ageing has been an increasing focus of attention, but a precise definition has been difficult. Large population datasets integrating cognitive performance and clinical data are providing substantial new insights regarding heritable, environmental or lifestyle factors associated with the variation in cognitive performance. Insights into molecular mechanisms underlying some of these contributions and interactions can be assessed well experimentally. The concept that preclinical stages of late life dementias begin even decades before clinical expression of the associated diseases has added a new dimension to characterisation of the ageing brain. Will it become possible to redefine diseases of the brain in terms of their physiological antecedents, much as we diagnose hypertension because of its association with cardiovascular disease and stroke? What will be demanded of diagnostic methods delivering these?
This seminar is open to all. Booking is not required.