Appendix C: Postgraduate Students Current Toyin Abdulsalam Ademola Scientia PhD student Bioinformatics using multi-omics data integration strategies to predict age-related phenotypes and longevity Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Karen Mather, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu, Dr Anne Poljak, Prof Marc Wilkins (School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences) Andrew Affleck PhD student Effects of anti-hypertensive medications on Alzheimer’s and cerebrovascular disease brain pathology Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Prof Glenda Halliday (USyd) Abdullah Alqarni PhD student Sex differences in risk factors for white matter hyperintensities in non-demented older individuals Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Jiyang Jiang, Prof Perminder Sachdev Russell Chander Scientia PhD student Social cognition in the older adult lifespan Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Prof Julie Henry (UQ) Chao Dong Scientia PhD student Genetic and environmental influences on human brain changes in ageing Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Jiyang Jiang, Dr Karen Mather, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu, Prof Perminder Sachdev Jing Du PhD student Investigation of cerebrovascular burden using neuroimaging techniques in ageing brains Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Jiyang Jiang Fleur Harrison PhD student Apathy in older community-dwelling persons: improving assessment, investigating its association with immune markers, differentiating from depression and fatigue and modelling its longitudinal course Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Henry Brodaty, Dr Liesbeth Aerts,
Dr Katrin Seeher, Prof Adam Guastella, Prof Julian Trollor, Prof Andrew Lloyd Nicholas Hoy PhD student Investigating transdiagnostic models of mental illness across the lifespan, as well as the genetic and neural structures that influence transdiagnostic risk of mental illness Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisor: Dr Louise Mewton Fatemeh Khorshidi PhD student Pharmacological promotion of NAD+ anabolism to reduce ad pathology and delay cognitive decline Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Anne Poljak Chulkyu Kim PhD student Nutrigenomic activators: A target for neurocognitive disorders and healthy brain ageing Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Dr Nady Braidy, Prof Perminder Sachdev Rebecca Koncz PhD student The relative genetic and environmental contributions to amyloid deposition in the brains of older adults: amyloid imaging using the twin design Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Prof Christopher Rowe (Austin Health, Melbourne), A/Prof Wei Wen, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu Matthew Lennon PhD student Risk and preventive factors in Dementia – An international harmonization of longitudinal studies Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health, and St Vincents Clinical School, UNSW Supervisors: Prof Perminder Sachdev, Dr Anbu Thalamuthu, Dr John Crawford, Dr Ben Lam Annabel Matison PhD student Examining the relationship between diet, depression and nutrigenomics Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health, and St Vincents Clinical School, UNSW Supervisors: Dr Karen Mather, Dr Simon Reppermund Janet Mitchell PhD student Meaningful relationships with care – The Social Orientation of Care in Aged Living (SOCIAL) Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health
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