Multi-Domain Modifiable Dementia Risk Factors and Cognition in Midlife

In this podcast, Dr. Scott Sperling and student leader, Dr. Joshua Fox-Fuller, discuss the paper, Multi-Domain Modifiable Dementia Risk Factors Are Associated with Poorer Cognition in Midlife, with two of the paper's authors, Dr. Yen Ying Lim and Ms. Lisa Bransby. This study the examined frequency and co-occurrence of modifiable dementia risk factors in a large cohort of healthy individuals who are at risk of developing dementia. Risk factors were classified into five domains (i.e., mood symptomatology, risky lifestyle behaviors, cardiovascular conditions, cognitive/social engagement, sleep disorders/symptomatology) and examined in relationship to cognition performance.

Yen Ying Lim is an associate professor at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the primary investigator of the Healthy Brain Project and the BetterBrains Trial. Her primary research interests are in understanding the nature and magnitude of genetic, biological, and lifestyle risk factors on cognitive decline and clinical disease progression in Alzheimer's disease. She is also interested in the development and validation of web-based cognitive tests for the early detection of cognitive dysfunction in early Alzheimer's disease.

Lisa Bransby is a final year PhD candidate at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and is an awardee of a Dementia Australia Research Foundation PhD scholarship. Her research focuses on modifiable dementia risk factors and how they relate to cognition and biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease. Lisa is also interested in understanding factors that influence the feasibility of dementia risk reduction.

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