12.30-1.30pm, Wed 26th August 2020
via Zoom (https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/96465123133?pwd=YkZPd1VRbzlKZFBKSjZKNG9GaXBIdz09); Password: 076545)
Professor Cassandra Szoeke, Director, Healthy Ageing Program, Centre for Medical Research, University of Melbourne
In 2013 NEJM and Lancet Neurology published the first timelines on the 30 year period of neurodegenerative disease development. Prior to this time most studies had recruited participants who were over 70 years of age as Alzheimer’s Dementia (the most common dementia) is incredibly rare beforehand (only 1% of those 60 to 69). Continue reading “MSPGH Research Seminar – 26 August 2020 – The importance of longitudinal prospective research in cognition: the Women’s Healthy Ageing Project”