IoN Ageing Research
We are looking at how sight, speech, hearing (deafness) and memory change with age. We are interested in how networks in the brain change in dementia. We want to improve people's lives when living with stroke and visual impairment. Depression is common in older people: we are developing better ways to measure this and looking at how things as diverse as art and exercise can help.
The staff listed below are involved in age-related research in the following areas:
- Janet Eyre - motor function and EEG changes across the life span and studies of adaptive changes following damage and the influence of rehabilitation interventions
- Nicol Ferrier and Peter Gallagher - visual-spatial memory processing in mood disorders and dementia, and methods for monitoring behaviour in old age depression
- Fiona LeBeau - cortical network oscillations and cognitive dysfunction in mouse models of Lewy Body dementia
- Barbara Gregson - trials of surgical interventions for intracranial haemorrhage and ischaemia following aneurysm surgery
- Chris Morris - understanding the biological basis of clinical symptoms in Dementia with Lewy bodies using molecular approaches. Chemical exposures and the development of late onset neurodegenerative movement disorders.
- Mark Freeston - relation of creative arts interventions to wellbeing in later life
- Thomas Meyer - life-style based interventions to promote improved mental health and cognitive function in later life
- Jenny Read - age-related changes in stereo (3D) vision
- Adrian Rees - hearing in a patient cohort who are now in their 60s.
- Richard McQuade and Sasha Gartside - how voluntary exercise can influence cognitive performance and neuropathology in animal models of dementia
- Tom Smulders and Peter Gallagher - memory performance in normal ageing and in early stages of dementia
- Debbie Riby - typical or atypical cognitive ageing associated with Williams syndrome using behavioural and EEG insights (with Leigh Riby Northumbria University)
- Tim Griffiths and Chris Petkov - - aspects of language impairment (aphasia) in the elderly population
- Michael Clarke - visual impairment in the elderly, and visual symptoms, attentional impairments and visual hallucinations related to dementia (with John Paul Taylor and Jo Jefferis)
- Marcus Kaiser - modelling degeneration of human brain connectivity and its link to brain disorders, including dementia
- Quoc Vuong and Patrick Degenaar - effectiveness of electronic visual aids to return some visual ability in cases of age-related retinal diseases (e.g. age-related macular degeneration)
