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Modifying Dementia Risk
Cognitive Dementia Depression Epidemiology Risk factors
Modifiable risk factors for dementia include those factors that can be altered or changed in some way (modified), usually for the better. The Lancet 2020 commission (Livingston et al., 2020) advocated that there are 12 risk factors which can be potentially modified to prevent or slow the progression of dementia. These are less education, hypertension, obesity, alcohol, traumatic brain injury (TBI), hearing loss, smoking, depression, physical inactivity, social isolation, diabetes and air pollution.
Early Adversity & Brain Health
Alzheimer's Brain function Cognitive Dementia Depression Mood
Blossom Early Adversity & Brain Health Programme is dedicated to investigating the effects of early life adversity on later life brain health, including mental health, cognition and dementia.
Heart and Brain Ageing Group
Alzheimer's Brain function Brain imaging Cognitive Dementia Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Medical co-morbidity Medicine
Nearly a third of dementia cases can be prevented by modifying our lifestyle, in particular our cardiovascular health. While we know that “what’s good for the heart is good for the brain”, we still don’t entirely know why. Our group investigates this heart-brain link in detail, by studying how the health of our heart and large blood vessels affect the brain and memory as we grow older.
Neural Correlates of Gene Function
Behaviour Brain Brain imaging Cognitive Cognitive models Decision-making Dopamine Functional imaging Genetics Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Mood Neuroimaging Neuroscience Pharmacology Risk factors Schizophrenia Stress
Our research aims to understand how individual genes contribute to the complex brain functions that are impaired in people with psychiatric disorders. By understanding these links we hope to improve treatments for these disorders.
Psychopharmacology and Emotion Research Laboratory (PERL)
Anxiety Behaviour Behavioural models Bipolar Brain Brain function Brain imaging Cognitive Cognitive models Depression Experimental Functional imaging Mental illness Neuroimaging Neuroscience Psychology Treatment
We explore how the brain processes emotional information and how this is influenced by brain chemicals and medicines. This helps us to understand disorders such as depression and anxiety and to understand and contribute to the development of drug and psychological treatments.
Oxford Brain-Body Research into Eating Disorders
Behavioural models Brain Brain function Brain imaging Clinical psychology Clinical trial Cognitive Cognitive models Dependence Experimental Functional imaging Information processing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Mindfulness Mood Neuroimaging Neuroscience Nutrition Psychological treatment development and evaluation Psychopathology Research-based Treatment Treatment trials
We work to understand the cognitive, biological, emotional and somatic processes underpinning the severe eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa in particular, and Eating Disorders in general. Our trans-disciplinary research, involving clinicians and neuroscientists, aims to translate research findings into novel treatment strategies.