Forefront Group: Healthy Brain Ageing Program
Supervisors:
Professor Sharon Naismith, Dr. Camilla Hoyos, A/Prof. Craig Phillips, Dr Andrew McKinnon and A/Prof. Christopher Gordon
Affiliate Organisations:
Brain and Mind Centre, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Charles Perkins Centre
Expertise:
Neurodegeneration of interest:
Alzheimer’s disease, sleep, ageing, mild cognitive impairment
Specific Skills:
Project - To examine autonomic function during sleep, via heart rate variability, in older adults at risk of dementia, and how nocturnal autonomic function is linked to the morphological and functional integrity of the brain
Disease area:
Dementia, Ageing
Key Publications from this project
Shawn D X Kong, Camilla M Hoyos, Craig L Phillips, Andrew C McKinnon, Pinghsiu Lin, Shantel L Duffy, Loren Mowszowski, Haley M LaMonica, Ronald R Grunstein, Sharon L Naismith, Christopher J Gordon, Altered heart rate variability during sleep in mild cognitive impairment, Sleep, Volume 44, Issue 4, April 2021, zsaa232,