Contact information
klaus.ebmeier@psych.ox.ac.uk
klaus.ebmeier@linacre.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 613100
+44 (0)1865 618212
ebmeier.pa@psych.ox.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5190-7038
University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX
Research projects
European Commission
Healthy Minds from 0-100 years: Optimising the use of European brain imaging cohorts ("Lifebrain"); 2017-2022; Co-applicant with Kristine B. Walhovd, University of Oslo [N, S, GB, D, E, DK, CH]
Medical Research Council (UK):
(1) Predicting MRI abnormalities with longitudinal data of the Whitehall II Substudy; 2012-17; ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03335696; PI - co-applicants: Geddes, Kivimäki, Mackay, Singh-Manoux, Smith.
(2) Adult Determinants of Late Life Depression, Cognitive Decline and Physical Functioning - The Whitehall II Ageing Study; 2013-18; Co-applicant with Kivimäki et al., UCL
Klaus Ebmeier
MD FRCPsych
Foundation Chair of Old Age Psychiatry
Read these public engagement stories on the University of Oslo's Lifebrain website
How to promote people’s brain health?
The relationship of education and income to brain and cognition varies across groups of people
Higher education does not influence how the brain ages
Interview on Lifebrain site (2021)
Guardian: "Any amount of alcohol consumption harmful to the brain, finds study"
27,500 took part in EU Horizon 2020 brain health survey (2020)
Research Funding:
European Union:
Diagnostic Molecular Imaging (FP6)
THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST:
Research into Ageing and Dementia 2012-2022; PI
Team Website:
Key publications
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Alcohol consumption and telomere length: Mendelian randomization clarifies alcohol’s effects
Journal article
TOPIWALA A. et al, (2022), Molecular Psychiatry
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Impact of moderate alcohol consumption on brain iron and cognition: observational and genetic analyses
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TOPIWALA A. et al, (2022), PLoS Medicine
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Alcohol consumption and MRI markers of brain structure and function: Cohort study of 25,378 UK Biobank participants.
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Topiwala A. et al, (2022), Neuroimage Clin, 35
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Inter- and intra-individual variation in brain structural-cognition relationships in aging.
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Patel R. et al, (2022), Neuroimage
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Sex- and age-specific associations between cardiometabolic risk and white matter brain age in the UK Biobank cohort.
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Subramaniapillai S. et al, (2022), Hum Brain Mapp
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Mind the gap: Performance metric evaluation in brain-age prediction.
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de Lange A-MG. et al, (2022), Hum Brain Mapp
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Hippocampal maintenance after a 12-month physical activity intervention in older adults: The REACT MRI study.
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Demnitz N. et al, (2021), Neuroimage Clin
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Individual variations in 'brain age' relate to early-life factors more than to longitudinal brain change.
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Vidal-Pineiro D. et al, (2021), eLife, 10
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Association of cerebral small vessel disease burden with brain structure and cognitive and vascular risk trajectories in mid-to-late life.
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Jansen MG. et al, (2021), J Cereb Blood Flow Metab
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Prominent health problems, socioeconomic deprivation, and higher brain age in lonely and isolated individuals: A population-based study.
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de Lange A-MG. et al, (2021), Behav Brain Res, 414