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Programme
THURSDAY, 3rd MAY, 2007
09.15 - 10.00h - Registration and Refreshments
Welcome and Opening Address
10.00 - 10.05h Neva Haites
Head, College of Life Sciences and Medicine,
University of Aberdeen
10.05 - 11.00h Relation of Psychosocial Risk Factors to Cognitive Decline and Age Related Neuropathology
David Bennett
Director, Rush Alzheimer Disease Centre,
Rush University, Chicago
Nutrition, Cognitive Ageing and Progress to Dementia
11.00 - 11.45h Dietary Influences on Cognitive Decline, Results from Randomised Controlled Trials
Geraldine McNeil
Head of Public Health Nutrition,
Senior Lecturer, Rowett Research Institute,
University of Aberdeen
11.45 - 12.30h B Vitamins, Homocysteine and Cognitive Function in the Elderly; Findings from Aberdeen Birth Cohorts 1936 and 1921
Susan Duthie
Senior Scientist, Rowett Research Institute,
University of Aberdeen
12.30 - 13.30h Lunch
Longitudinal Studies of Cognitive Ageing and Progress to Dementia
13.30 - 14.15h Psychosocial Health & Lifestyle Risk Factors for Cognitive Decline Over 11 years in the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing: Multilevel Analyses Incorporating Distance to Death
Kaarin Anstey
Director of the Ageing Research Unit,
Australian National University, Canberra
14.15 - 15.00h Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease in the Longitudinal
U.S. Health and Retirement Survey
Jack McArdle (with Kenneth M Langa, MD PhD, University of Michigan)
Professor of Psychology,
University of Southern California
15.00 - 15.45h Paradoxical Relationships in Late Life between Cognition
and Physical Health: Exploring Less Travelled Pathways
John Starr
Reader, Geriatric Medicine,
University of Edinburgh
15.45 - 16.15h Tea
16.15 - 17.00h Personality, Lifestyle and the Prediction of Progress to Dementia
Lawrence Whalley
Professor of Mental Health,
University of Aberdeen
17.00 - 18.00h The Why of Preventing Dementia - But Not the Who, When and What
Lenore Launer
Director, Neuroepidemiology,
National institute of Ageing, Bethesda
18.00 - 19.00h Break
Alzheimer’s Research Trust (Public Lecture)
19.00 - 20.00h Research into Dementia in our Ageing Population
Carol Brayne
Professor of Public Health, University of Cambridge
20.00 - 23.00h (approx) Conference Dinner
FRIDAY, 4th MAY, 2007
Genetic Factors in Cognitive Ageing, Neurodegeneration and Dementia
09.00 - 09.50h Still Hereditable After All Those Years? The Changing Role of Genes in Cognitive Ageing and Dementia
Nancy Pedersen
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology,
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
09.50 - 10.30h Genetics, Ageing and Neurodegeneration
Alan F Wright
Professor of Human Genetics,
University of Edinburgh
10.30 - 11.00h Coffee
11.00 - 11.45h Genetic Contributions to Cognitive Ageing in the Follow-Up Studies of the Scottish Mental Surveys
Ian Deary
Professor of Psychology,
University of Edinburgh
11.45 - 12.30h Molecular Genetics of Dementia
Alison Goate
Professor of Genetics,
Washington University School of Medicine,
University of St. Louis
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
Early Diagnosis: Roles of Structural and Functional Brain Imaging
13.30 - 14.30h Using Imaging to Track the Development and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Marilyn Albert
Director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore
14.30 - 15.10h What Does Brain Imaging Contribute to the Clinical Investigation of Cognitive Ageing and Dementia?
Alison Murray
Senior Lecturer, Neuroradiology,
University of Aberdeen
15.10 - 15.40h Cognitive Reserve: Should We Take it Seriously?
Roger Staff
Senior Physicist, Department of Biomedical Physics,
University of Aberdeen
15.40 - 16.00h Tea
16.00 - 17.00h The Ibadan-Indianapolis Project: Travels in Search of
the Source of Alzheimer’s Disease
Hugh Hendrie
Professor, Department of Psychiatry,
Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis
17.00h Close
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